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ii) School and Teacher Education Reform
Programme, Chhattisgarh:
In 2002, keeping in mind the specific socio-
cultural background of the newly formed state
of Chhattishgarh, ICICI Bank and its partners
developed new curricula and textbooks for Classes
I to VIII.
These textbooks have been in use since 2007
benefitting around five million children. Further, in
2012, the Foundation signed a MoU for School and
Teacher Education Reform Programme with the
Government of Chhattisgarh to enable qualitative
improvement in teaching-learning processes in
coordination with the State Council for Educational
Research and Training (SCERT) by:
• RevisingStateCurriculumFramework,2007in
line with RtE, 2009, instituting a mechanism
for periodic review of textbooks
• Pre-service and in-service teacher education
(including 40,000 untrained teachers)
• DevelopingfourDistrictInstitutesofEducation
& Training (DIETs) as subject specific centres of
excellence
• Developing100schoolsinChattisgarhasRtE
compliant model schools
iii) English Relay Programme, Assam:
ICICI Foundation has successfully completed the
English Relay Programme (ERP) pilot project in 100
government schools in Kamrup district, Assam. The
pilot project aims to enhance teachers’ capacities
and students’ competencies in basic language
skills, such as Listening, Speaking, Reading and
Writing (LSRW) through the ERP kits. These
kits were distributed across 100 pilot schools in
Kamrup district with 239 English Teachers being
trained and 14,000 students in Classes I-V being
benefitted from the programme.
2. Primary Health
i) Outpatient Healthcare Programme, Odisha
& Gujarat:
The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) unit
of Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), in
partnership with Microinsurance Innovation Facility
of International Labour Organisation (ILO) and ICICI
Foundation, successfully launched the Outpatient
Healthcare Pilot project. The project has sought
to provide outpatient benefits to the marginalised
people belonging to the Below Poverty Line (BPL)
segment. The pilot was initiated in the districts of
Puri in Odisha and Mehsana in Gujarat. It had the
following objectives:
• To improve health seeking behaviour among
people belonging to BPL and other marginalised
segments
• Toensuredeliveryofqualityhealthcaretothem
• To reduce out-of-pocket expenses for quality
healthcare
A Master Trainer of the English Relay Programme
demonstrating alternative teaching methods to improve
learning effectiveness among children
Under the pilot more than 91,400
beneficiaries in Puri and around 49,000 in
Mehsana have utilised RSBY outpatient
services, till February 2013. With high
satisfaction levels among beneficiaries and
the healthcare providers, the initiative is
proposed to be scaled-up in the
coming months.