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THE TELEGRAPH EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The Telegraph Education Foundation is a charitable Trust that provides financial assistance to students and schools that need a helping hand and a gentle shabash! It is supported by The Telegraph. The Trust is chaired at present by Mr Amitabha Dutta.

Every year, The Telegraph Education Foundation organises The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence held at Science City auditorium in Calcutta on last Saturday of August. It is an annual event since 1996, and is initiated by Mr Barry O’Brien - an educator, author, quizmaster, social worker, social activist, and his friend and colleague Biswanath Dasgupta – an educator, artist, social worker to honour schools, students and teachers from the city and rural areas, from Bengali, English, Hindi and Urdu mediums, on the same stage. Through these awards we try to recognize the achievements of schools and students across West Bengal that has excelled in various fields, and also honour educationists and teachers who have made an outstanding contribution to education. It is not a contest – these awards are non-competitive in sprit and have been instituted to recognize the contribution of individuals and institutions.

Besides the academic and co-curricular categories (School of the Year, School That Cares, Best Academic performance by a Student, etc.), we have some very special categories, namely The Award for Courage to a Student, The ‘Thank You’ Baba-Ma award to a Single Parent or Parents, and The Lifetime Achievement Award for a Teacher. In addition, we give several scholarships to students who have fought the odds and won – children of farmers, daily wage labourers, rickshawallahs – by scoring outstanding marks in their Board Exams.

Over the last 22 years, we have done our best to celebrate life itself by paying a tribute to true heroes. They live among us and are all around us - only we choose not to see them! Every year we invite other true heroes who have looked life’s challenges in the eye, and won! Our Honoured Guests in the past have included a woman who lost her mother-in-law and husband to assassins’ bullets, and still chose to serve the nation – Sonia Gandhi; an ‘ordinary’ Jawan from the Indian Army who showed ‘extraordinary’ courage in Kargil; a brilliant teenager whose dream of going to IIT was shattered because his school teacher father couldn’t afford the fees – he worked towards fulfilling another dream and founded Infosys – N R Narayan Murthy; a young Hindu – a common man – who rode his bike 120 km to donate his blood to a little Muslim girl he had never met, since they both shared the same rare blood group, and drove back without even meeting her because he didn’t want to be thanked since he was just doing what ‘any human-being should’.

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