Bangalore City Saksharatha Samiti

Aim To create an awareness about the need and importance of literacy, and to promote community-based education and development for people living in slums.

Constituency Served

slum and working children, 9 years and above


Details of Work

BACISS has 21,000 literacy centres in 554 urban slums reaching over 2 lakh non-literate children and adults. It has developed a literacy primer with supplementary guide books in Kannada, Tamil and Urdu. It also plans to works towards the universalisation of education through a primary education project in collaboration with UNICEF and the Department of Labour*. The project will identify non-school going children, especially working children between 6-14 years, and provide educational inputs that will enable them to be mainstreamed. It also works in integrated community development.

Fact File

Bangalore City Saksharatha Samiti

    Acronym

  • BACISS

    • Status

  • Society

    • Category

  • Education

    • Sub Category

  • Organisations

    • Level of Work of the Organization

  • Local

    • Establishment

  • 1996

    • Focus

  • literacy, community development, street and working children

    • Resources

  • publications, literacy primer, teaching aids

    • Help Welcome

  • volunteers, donations, sponsorship
Contact Information

Mr Sridhar Murthy , Secretary , Mon-Sat 9.00-8.00
Office of the Commissioner of public Instruction, New Public Offices Building, Nrupathunga Road Bangalore- 560001.
Ph : 22245092