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Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), a defence public sector undertaking, as part of its CSR activities is paying tributes to Sir M Visvesvaraya by providing various facilities to two government schools in Kandavara and Chikkaballapur near Bengaluru.
The schools where Sir M Visvesvaraya, eminent engineer and statesman had done his schooling.
BEL has constructed a Digital Library, gate and compound wall for the Government Model Higher Primary School, Kandavara, where Sir M Visvesvaraya had studied from Class I to V. The school has been painted and the classrooms renovated. BEL has also provided solar lighting for the school, apart from furniture for the Digital Library, at a total cost of Rs 32 lakhs.
The Government High School at Chikkaballapur where Sir Visvesvaraya studied from Class VI to VIII has been provided with separate toilet blocks for boys and girls, at a cost of Rs 18 lakhs.
The new facilities for the two schools will be formally handed over to the Deputy Director of Public Instructions, Chikkaballapur, Karnataka Department of Public Instruction, by Amol Newaskar, Director (Other Units), BEL, on December 1.
Senior officers from BEL including G Raghavendra Rao, Executive Director (HR)/BEL Corporate Office, Veeresh D Bevinamarad, General Manager (HR)/BEL-Bengaluru, and Arunachalam G, General Manager, (Engineering Services)/ BEL-Bengaluru, will be present.
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