Jamshedpur, Feb. 17: A team of five dynamic women educators of leading schools of Jamshedpur will embark on first of its kind educational trip in India where they would travel to Myanmar and Thailand visiting several schools in Bangkok, Mandalay, Yangon and Naypyidaw.
The team has been named �Palash� which includes Indrani Singh, principal of ADLS Sunshine School, Nandini Shukla, principal, Kerala Samajam Model School (KSMS), Lalita Sareen, director, Mount Litera Zee School, Ashu Tiwary, principal, Motilal Nehru Public School and Sunita Sinha, principal, Gulmohar High School would take a flight from Kolkata to Bangkok on February 19 and the road trip would begin from Mandalay (a city and former royal capital in northern Myanmar) where the team would travel to Naypyidaw (capital city of Myanmar) to Bagan (an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar) to Yangon (is the largest city in Myanmar) to Mae Sot (a district in western Thailand) to Bangkok on Trilateral Express Highway (Connecting India, Myanmar and Thailand) which was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in July 2015, and back to Kolkata. The team would return back to Jamshedpur on February 28.
�Today the curriculum is not limited to classroom and the world has a whole lot to offer apart for the bookish knowledge and in a country where issues of intolerance were in the forefront in recent past we would like to promote Global Oneness�, said Lalita Sareen.
Addressing a press conference at JRD Tata Sports Complex on Wednesday, Ms. Sareen said, �We would embark on a journey on this highway keeping education in mind and visit schools in these countries. Learn and share the tradition and have a four way interaction with the teachers and students at the schools in Myanmar and Thailand.
The recent incident of murder in Ranchi and New Delhi is an eye opener for schools and teachers as to how they are imparting knowledge to the students in technology driven world�, Ms. Sareen added.
�Our project name is Johar to Swadikha (greeting people in Thailand) which would serve the multipurpose requirements of education, culture and understanding between the people of the countries we will visit�, said Ashu Tiwary, adding, �Earlier we had planned for Nagaland but we received intimation that Nagaland is not safe and then we changed the plan to Myanmar and Thailand�.
Nandini Shukla, principal, Kerala Samajam Model School informed that we will share best practices that the schools of Jamshedpur follow with the schools there and would also adopt their best practices that would enable teachers and students learn a lot.
�We would share this learning with the local and private government schools in Jamshedpur and also with other schools in the country by emails and other communicating tools�, KSMS principal added.
Indrani Singh said, this venture is a humble step to dissolve boundaries, extend our hand of friendship and promote global oneness as we would cover around 2500 kms. �In future we wish to travel to SAARC counties and our next step would be to travel to Sri Lanka�, Singh added.
The tour will be flagged of from JRD Tata Sports Complex on February 19 by Sunil Bhaskaran, vice-president (corporate services), Tata Steel.
