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some thousands of illiterate children in the remote parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura and West Bengal.
He also spoke at length on the social and welfare activities of the Ajmal Group. He then outlined the key steps taken by the group in a host of institutions not only to promote education but encourage welfare activities in the region. He said Ajmal intensified its earlier initiatives at prioritizing education. A substantial amount of our net profit goes through our CSR organizations to the establishment of quality institutions and implementing relevant schemes and projects for improving education. And Insha’Allah we shall continue patronizing the cause of education and healthcare as long as we are able. He detailed some of the Ajmal CSR activates in his lengthy written Educating speech as under:
It is also one of our greatest achievements in the history of social work that we were able to make our hometown Hojai 100% literate in the year 2004. Today, from this platform, I am once again, proud to announce that Hojai is the 1st 100% literate (6-14 yrs age group) township in the entire eastern part of India and till date we are maintaining this unique distinction with the help of continuing education.
It is well known that rural areas have enormous talented youth which are not given the proper opportunities to grow owing to lack of financial resources. In order to promote rural talent our CSR the girls is more organizations have been important and it can solve providing scholarships of many problems in the society. different nature to the needy ‘Ajmal for Education and and talented students studying Education for All’is the main India is such a huge country in medical, technical, motto of Ajmal and it has and development is not management and general established a total of 14 Ajmal possible if we won’t be able to courses in institutions across Colleges, 17 Markaz Academy the country. Some thousands of English Medium Schools, in provide quality education to students have been benefited which at present around 7500 our women... from this scheme and hundreds students, mostly from rural of doctors, engineers, teachers, background, have been entrepreneurs, managers and pursuing modern education other professionals are serving with the support of around 450 society and are well placed in well qualified teachers. their respective fields. An Alhamdulillah, all of our amount of rupees fifty lakh is institutions have been showing earmarked for the Ajmal Scholarship Program from wonderful results every year and are also growing our CSR organizations every year. well in quality, enrolment and infrastructure. Earlier, Mr Sirajuddin Ajmal, Managing Trustee of We have set up 4 colleges and 2 schools exclusively for Ajmal CSR, MLA and PAC Chairman Govt. of girls and 6 colleges and 14 Schools are having girl Assam, welcomed the guests by saying: sections. In the field of technical education also, the institutions like Ajmal Rural Technology and Demonstration Centre (ARTDC), HAMM Nursing School and more than 50 Ajmal Computer Centres in different parts of Assam have been imparting joboriented vocational courses to make mostly the BPL youths employable in different sectors all over the country and abroad. Markazul Ma’arif has also been running around 600 morning schools bringing the light of education to
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“We are honoured with the presence of Justice M. S. A. Siddiqui, Hon'ble Chairman, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, Government of India and one of the eminent jurists of our country. I would also like to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis, Former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and Cochin University of Science and Technology and the present Vice-Chancellor of University of Science