BHUBANESWAR:City-based Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) on Wednesday signed an MoU with Bhartia Charitable Trust for establishing a residential school at Puri which will be exclusively meant for children of poor Brahmin families.
The Kalinga-Bhartia Residential School will be built on 15 acres land on Puri-Konark road and will start functioning from 2018. So far, an estimate of `15 crore has been mobilised for the project. It will be a fully residential unit where both boys and girls from poor Brahmin families across India will get education with accommodation, food and healthcare free of cost. There will be a provision for enrolling 1,200 students from Standard I to XII on the CBSE curriculum.
Apart from the academic curriculum, students will be given special training on Veda Karmakand and Theology with an emphasis on Jagannath culture, KISS Founder Achyuta Samanta said.‘’A number of Brahmin children from economically challenged families in India are deprived of quality education. The institution will groom such children with the focus on Brahmin kids from Odisha and especially from Puri,’’ Samanta added.
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman of Bhartia Charitable Trust Kishanlal Agarwal said the initiative will help poor children who do not enjoy quotas and other benefits like their their counterparts from backward classes.‘’I have been associated with Puri and the Jagannath Temple for the last 30 years and always desired to do something constructive for the children of Brahmin families,’’ Agarwal added.