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Charity Beyond Borders: Odisha’s KISS To Set Up Free Education Centres In Bangladesh And Other Indian States
Swarajya Staff
Jan 21, 2019, 02:22 PM | Updated 02:22 PM IST
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In a boost, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) that provides free education from kindergarten all the way up till post-graduation to an estimated 50,000 tribal students in Odisha, has said that it will run similar centres in Bangladesh and other states, reports The Times of India.
The institute’s founder Achyuta Samanta, on Sunday (January 20), said that a KISS centre for poor children was expected to start functioning at Kolkata from next year. They had entered into an agreement with an NGO based in Kolkata to run the centre for 1,000 needy children in the metropolis from the 2020 academic session, he later added.
KISS also plans to start a centre near Ranchi, Jharkhand, from 2020 as the Jharkhand cabinet has already approved 29 acres for the KISS campus, said Samanta, who is also a Rajya Sabha member from the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
The institute runs a centre for 600 street children in the nation’s capital and has plans to open a similar centre in Chhattisgarh and Bihar, he said. They also have plans to start two other KISS centres in Bangladesh by 2020, one for girls and another for boys up to class 10 in Jassore and Dhaka.
The institute was founded during 1992-93 in Bhubaneswar to wean children away from naxal influence. KISS has 23,000 alumni, and 27,000 students staying on its facilities.
"The KISS provides poor tribal students free food, lodging and education from KG to PG. We also provide them jobs after completion of education," said Samanta.
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