Hyderabad-based voluntary organisation Helping Hands Foundation (HHF) has launched an initiative to map government schools using Google Maps in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits, to determine school facilities and encourage enrolment of children.
Through this work, density of schools in each of the zones, availability of seats, teachers and other facilities will be determined; the same data will be used to counsel parents about facilities in government schools or the distance from their homes to schools, among other things. So far, 100 schools have been geo-mapped, the HHF said.
According to Mujtaba Hasan Askari of the HHF, in line with the new Congress government’s plans to upgrade schools, the organisation is explaining to parents that education is free and that the children will also get breakfast, lunch, books and uniforms.
