Rotary to raise Rs 100 crore for its literacy mission

By raising Rs 100 crore through various fund raisers and CSR contributions, the Rotary International plans to impart education to lakhs of young children all over the country.
As part of the Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM), one lakh marginalised children would be brought into the mainstream educational fold and around 200,000 children would be benefited through happy schools in the first year, the mission's CEO Anupam Dasgupta told reporters here today.
"We will raise around Rs 100 crore in the first year from various donations and CSR activities. Besides we will also leverage government schemes for this project to eradicate literacy," he said.

The Rotarians have pledged to bring total literacy in India by 2017.
This program would be launched tomorrow with 'A Million Books, A Million Smiles' campaign aimed at collecting one million books to build more than 1,500 libraries in government schools across India, Shekhar Mehta, chairman, RILM, said.
The campaign will run for six days and they have urged people to donate children books and other teaching aids material to Rotary clubs or 'Manyavar' garment shops.