Civil society organisation ‘Pratham’ to get Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021
Pratham, a civil society organisation, has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Building for the 12 months 2021.
Arrange in 1995 in Mumbai by way of Dr Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay, Pratham is devoted to bettering the standard of training for underprivileged youngsters in India and the world over.
We’re honoured to percentage that the World Jury of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Building, chaired by way of the previous Leader Justice of India, Justice T. S. Thakur, has introduced the award of the Prize for 2021 to @Pratham_India pic.twitter.com/JGvzHgn5LI
— Pratham Schooling Basis (@Pratham_India) November 19, 2021
The organisation began its paintings within the Mumbai slums, putting in community-based pre-schools. Its outreach in India has now expanded to a mean 1 million youngsters immediately and five million thru executive partnerships yearly.
Its Annual Standing of Schooling File (ASER), according to surveying 6 lakh rural Indian youngsters, is now used as a type to evaluate training results and finding out deficiencies in 14 international locations.
The Pratham workforce, in a tweet, thanked the jury and all their supporters around the globe for recognising their paintings.
The Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for the 12 months 2019 was once conferred on famend naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.
