Rcom Partners With SNDT Women’s University

• To jointly promote education among challenged children
• To create resource hub
• Sponsors ‘Tarang 2010’
• First ever initiative in Mumbai

Mumbai, February 11, 2010 : As part of its ongoing Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Group CSR initiatives, Reliance Communications has partnered with S.N.D.T Women's University, Mumbai for creating a resource hub aimed at promoting education among physically and mentally challenged children. To this end, the two are jointly organizing Tarang 2010 at SNDT campus in Juhu, Mumbai on February 11, 2010. More than 30 organizations which are directly involved with the special needs of these hapless children have been invited to this major event. This will be the first time in Mumbai that such an event is being planned.

Taranga 2010 is a curtain raiser endeavoring to increase sensitivity of the society toward children with special needs, promote Special Education as a career option among the youth, sensitize teachers in normal schools about children with special needs and accelerate the pace of inclusive education and enhance the knowledge base about the subject among the experts and develop viable tools and strategies to help such children.

Speaking on the occasion, Krishnan S Kumar, Sr. Vice President, Reliance ADA Group CSR remarked, “We are glad to partner with SNDT Women’s University in this noble cause. We shall be providing the technical inputs on the subject as well as necessary tools to create the platform for the knowledge sharing i.e. helplines etc.We is sure that our joint efforts will benefit thousands of physically and mentally challenged children and inspire other organizations to contribute their best.”

Tarang 2010 will be attended by most of the renowned special schools in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Over 1500 visitors comprising parents, teachers, policy makers, students, parents of special students, special educators, decision makers and other important people will grace the event. Educational and therapy equipment companies, book distributors /book publishers and pharmaceutical companies will display their products and services.

The national education policy is laying emphasis on inclusive education – wherein children with special needs have to be integrated into the mainstream educational system. Efforts are being made to benefit a large majority of such children from the Tarang initiative.

There is a ‘special’ fair being organized as the first of a series of events. This fair will provide a platform where all the stake holders relating to disabilities/ Special Education can come together and share their opportunity/skill sets. It will also create awareness about the scope of Special Education as a career option.

Around 450 special children from various special schools across Mumbai will be competing in various events like singing, dancing, painting etc. This event will give differently-enabled children an opportunity, to mingle with children with different disabilities.

About Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of 100 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 5 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 190,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

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