Bangalore City Saksharatha Samiti

Aim To create an awareness about the need and importance of literacy, and to promote community-based education and development for people living in slums.

Bangalore City Saksharatha Samiti...
	is listed under the category Education/Organisations
	was established in 1996
	focuses on literacy, community development, street and working children
	functions at the Local level
	works with slum and working children, 9 years and above
	has the resource of publications, literacy primer, teaching aids
	welcomes help in the form of volunteers, donations, sponsorship

BACISS has 21,000 literacy centres in 554 urban slums reaching over 2 lakh non-literate children and adults. It has developed a literacy primer with supplementary guide books in Kannada, Tamil and Urdu. It also plans to works towards the universalisation of education through a primary education project in collaboration with UNICEF and the Department of Labour*. The project will identify non-school going children, especially working children between 6-14 years, and provide educational inputs that will enable them to be mainstreamed. It also works in integrated community development.

Mr Sridhar Murthy, Secretary
Available - Mon-Sat 9.00-8.00
Office of the Commissioner of public Instruction, New Public Offices Building, Nrupathunga Road, Bangalore - 560001.
Ph 22245092