Jamshedpur, May 5: A record production and sales in the last financial year has geared the automobile firm into the fast track of reforms.

After initiating beautification drives in the township, Tata Motors has now decided to reform its schools.

Earlier, Tata Motors through Siksha Prasar Kendra, provided financial assistance to schools and implemented programmes and policies. It has now decided to widen its perspective to ensure that no employees? wards are deprived of education.

Siksha Prasar Kendra covers 27 schools in and around the Jamshedpur plant of Tata Motors.

?School managing committees will prepare a list of students who had to discontinue studies during the last academic year due to financial crunch. Through Siksha Prasar Kendra, the committee will provide scholarships to such students. The scholarship could be either in terms of books and stationery or a subsidised fee,? said M.K. Sinha, vice-chairman, Siksha Prasar Kendra and general manager (administration), Tata Motors.

The committee will also keep a tab on the dropout rates in schools, especially girl students. ?This is to ensure that literacy does not stop at the primary level. We have issued orders to managing committees of every school to monitor the dropout rates and identify the causes so that we can work towards eliminating the problems,? said Sinha.

?We are not targeting schools like Hill Top School, Gulmohar School and Vidya Bharti Chinmaya Vidyalaya. Our main concern is schools such as Rahargora, Barigora and Govindpur where wards of the employees of the lowest rank are sent for education,? said Jayanti Dutt, secretary, Shiksha Prasar Kendra.

Schools have been asked to draw a performance card according to the last year results. The card will help them identify the numbers of dropouts in the rural and the urban belt.

Tata Motors, through Siksha Prasar Kendra, would then provide scholarships to such students. Dutt said most girls in the rural belts dropped out of schools due to lack of basic infrastructure. ?Our studies revealed that students between the age group of 12-15 years mostly drops out of school,? Dutt said.