The Godavaribai Kagliwal High School in Hingoli, 225 km from Aurangabad, provides free education to about 400 girl students from socially and economically weak sections in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region. The school, a CSR initiative by the Aurangabad-based Nath group, is in addition to the high-end Nath Valley School on the outskirts of the city with around 1,000 students, which is affiliated with CBSE and is recognised as one of the leading public schools in India.
The group, comprising parent company Nath Pulp and Paper Mills and other companies, has a couple of other charitable schools, too: the Nath Niketan Vidyalay at Paithan nearby, which it describes as a full-fledged high school providing quality education to about 1,000 students, and the Anand Ashram school at Walmi in Aurangabad, with an objective to provide wholesome quality education in natural surroundings.
Its Apna Club, set up around 25 years ago as an experiment for children in the age group of 7-14 with the objective of inculcating ethical values in youngsters at an early age through the medium of stories, poems and field visits, now has 15 chapters spread all over the region.
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Girls’ education is one of the primary activities for development