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 Saturday, October 15, 2005. Charkhi Dadri (Bhiwani) Improve children's health, education: Swraj Paul Noted industrialist and philanthropist Lord Swraj Paul today laid emphasis on improving children's health and quality of education in India. Speaking at a series of functions organised here at Apeejay College and Apeejay School, he said India's strides in industry and other related fields could only be meaningful if the young children were educated properly and provided the best healthcare facilities. While appreciating the progress made by India during the past decade Lord Paul said despite all this the country still lagged behind in health facilities and quality education. He said he wanted to supplement government efforts and would do whatever he could to ensure quality education and health facilities for the children. He said during British Prime Minister Tony Blair's recent visit to India, a corpus of £ 25 million had been created to improve education facilities in India. This would go a long way in creating more and better educational infrastructure in the country. Lord Paul said he believed that more stress should be laid on improving health and education facilities in the rural areas, which to him was the real India. "India is a great nation and I am proud of it", he added. He said the investment atmosphere in Haryana was excellent and he planned to set up a large auto spare parts unit at Manesar in Gurgaon district. However, in the same breath he said Haryana was not making the best use of advanced agricultural technology. Later, he laid the foundation stone of a stadium in Charkhi village. He was accompanied by four members of the House of Commons - Ms Helan Jones, Dr Lynee Jones, Mr Peter Lutt and Mr Andrew Tuggey. |
