In such a scenario, it is of utmost importance to nurture a culture, wherein women have equal opportunity to participate in the workforce while gaining access to unlock their true potential. To foster such an environment, the need for offering young girls inclusive and quality education, aided by affordable vocational training, is more critical than ever before.

Currently, over 132 million girls are out of school. If we put it more elementally, on an average, 1 in 4 girls do not go to school.

With such staggering numbers, the need for providing young women access to sound education is imperative. This is why, at ELGi, strive to champion this cause with the ELGi Matriculation Higher Secondary School, an ELGi Public Welfare Trust initiative.

In line with the United Nations’ 4th Sustainable Development Goal to provide ‘Quality Education’, our young female students are encouraged to pursue their studies in STEM subjects and take part in the National Children Science Congress. This has been met with much enthusiasm and our female students have gone on to win awards at both the district and state levels.

This Women’s Day, let us take a look at the perspectives of the educators at the ELGi school, who have taken on the responsibility to mould our female students to be leaders who #InspireTheFuture.

Education is a lifelong process of empowerment. At ELGi Matric Higher Secondary School, we aim to bring a holistic experience to education. The integration of learning and aspiration is the key element of our school.

We believe that the purpose of education isn’t just to impart knowledge to children, but also to provide them with a conducive environment to unfold their inborn skills and talents. The school creates an optimistic learning experience for students, which in turn inspires them to be creative and self-reliant. An impressive array of academic and co-curricular activities provides them ample opportunities to exhibit their potential.

At our institution, the grooming of wards begins with the school assembly. Ensuring equal opportunities stimulates their individuality and brings out their potential to the fullest. A rolling trophy awarded to the best class every month, eustress the students to work towards betterment.

National celebrations such as Independence Day, Republic Day, Navy Day, and National Law Day aims to instil in them sentiments of patriotism, reverence for great leaders and motivate them to follow their noble path.

The Eco-Club takes initiatives to celebrate international celebrations such as World Environment Day, World Water Day, International Drug Abuse Day, and Yoga Day to impart awareness on various social issues and groom them as better and responsible citizens. Students actively participate in Siruthuli program and are involved in nurturing the nature too.

Cultural celebrations like Pongal, Krishna Jayanthi, Navaratri, Ramzan and Christmas nourish their cultural roots and instil the spirit of fraternity, and brotherhood among students.

Kindergarten observes special days to familiarise tiny tots with colours, vegetables and fruits and other activities. Grandparents Day is a special occasion for them to shower their love and reverence for elderly people.

Our school celebrates Kamarajar Day, as Educational Development Day and the initiation of ‘Kalam Hour’ and ‘Hunt for Junior Kalam’ kindles the interest in science and brings out the talent of young children with hands-on experiments. Ignited by curiosity and desire to learn new things, our students actively participate in District Level National Science Congress and Science Expo; and are appreciated for their innovative thoughts and projects.

A spectrum of inter-house and club activities helps to promote a balanced personality development.

Students get accustomed to democratic elections when they nominate themselves for the post of school head boy and head girl, involve in canvassing, cast their votes, and elect their leaders.

Proper training and participation in Scouts and Guides activities brought us the prestigious moments of winning the Governor award. Students have proven their mettle and individual excellence in Silambam, gymnastics and other sports and athletics too.

The active participation of students in the Olympiad and Spell Bee Exams has brought laurels to our school.

Even during the pandemic, our students made us proud with their active participation in virtual cultural activities, online competitions and more. At the National Level Painting Competition, organized by RAF, CRPF, our student Dharshana K bagged the first prize and a cash award.

This year, with the Christmas celebration at school, we drew a curtain for the celebrations for the calendar year. Last year, the entire campus brimmed with the joy and festivities before the school closed for winter vacation. The scene of the nativity was created so naturally in a crib and was enacted live, the choir welcomed the newborn Jesus with their melodious voice and the arrival of Santa Claus created much excitement. There was a special cultural programme for the tiny tots too.

A fulfilling childhood enriched with fond memories, impactful lessons, supportive mentors and a chance to dream. That is the endeavor of the ELGi vocational training school in Coimbatore.

ELGi’s programs around creating well-rounded individuals, through meaningful and active community engagement, draws parallels to Nehru’s legacy of education and development for the children of today, both promoting positive social change.

We sat with a few students from the ELGi vocational training school, located in Singarampalayam, on the outskirts of Coimbatore.

These three students from the school have spent three years at the expansive campus. The ELGi vocational school campus is spread across 18,000 sq ft with provisions of multimedia classrooms and a training centre with a fitting shop, machining, welding and electrical work.

In order to provide customers with only the highest standards of quality and accuracy, we also manufacture high-tech machine tools to build our compressors. Such is the level of determination we put into excelling our own benchmarks.