The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) will open its residential school in Mumbai.
The school would be the third KISS school outside Odisha after Delhi and Calcutta. An MoU to this effect was signed between KISS and the Choice Welfare Foundation of Mumbai on Sunday.
Sunil Patodia signed the agreement on behalf of the Choice Welfare Foundation, while Dr Achyuta Samanta, founder, KIIT & KISS signed on behalf of the KISS.
Choice-KISS residential school will greatly benefit the vulnerable, marginalised, and tribal students of Maharashtra. The school will come up at 25 acres of land. The Choice Welfare Foundation will bear all the costs for Choice-KISS residential school, which will start functioning from the coming year.
“I am a great admirer of Dr Samanta and his works towards society. He is a role model for us. So many poor, underprivileged kids are not getting a proper education in Maharashtra. They have inner qualities, but they need proper education. So I have a dream to set up KISS in Maharashtra for the last five years. Today my dream is fulfilled and this will be a big beginning. We will work together for society in the coming years,” said Patodia after signing the MoU.
Expressing happiness that KISS has been recognised as a successful model, Dr Samanta said, it is a pride for Odisha that KISS has been set up in three metropolitan cities of India. KISS-Delhi is working since 2013, while infrastructure work of HUHT-KISS residential school, Calcutta in collaboration of HelpUs Help Them has been completed. Now KISS will be set up in Mumbai.
Among others, Kirti Ajmera, CEO, Ajmera Properties; Paras Jain, chairman, Ruchira Exports; Dr P.K. Routaray, CEO, KISS and Kanhu Charan Mahali, Director General, KISS were also present.
