Initiative during KMC Elections

KMC elections in Kolkata happened in May!!!!! The last 2-3 months, this highly politically charged up city of Kolkata saw endless campaigns and street corner public speeches on popular civic issues and media lapping up all the euphoria.. To our disappointment, very very rare was any mention regarding children, their issues, more so when Kolkata Municipal Corporation runs 268 schools with nearly 30,000 children as students

A group of interns decided to do something on this. They picked up over 30 KMC schools, visited them, interacted with the stakeholders and came up with an assessment report. The group at the same time realised that this report wasn't enough to reach out to all. They came up with this idea of a leaflet in Bangla and Hindi on education provisions- what a school should provide for!

7000 copies of these were distributed by the Topsia Geo PAG volunteers and Interns among the voter population (in areas where they had gone to do the school assessments) to apprise them of their entitlements and making an effort to help them choose their Councillors who will work on these issues.


To have a look at the report as well as the leaflets, go here.