Keonjhar: Vidyabhawan, a free residential school in Keonjhar district, was adjudged the best school for unprivileged children with innovative co-curricular activities at the recent Asia Education Summit.
Founder secretary of the school Malaya Mohapatra received the award from former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi in the presence of Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Ramdas Athawale at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
He had earlier received an award and certificate from Educationist Matthew R Merrit at the International Education Summit 2020 held at Bangkok in Thailand
Vidyabhawan, founded by Mohapatra in 2009 at Khudaposi has been providing quality education with adequate facilities to about 300 unprivileged children in tribal-dominated district of Odisha.
