JEDDAH, 14 May 2006 — Vidyanagar Public School, a high-tech residential high school with modern academic facilities, is being built in the heart of Malappuram, a Muslim majority district in the south Indian state of Kerala.
The Malabar Educational and Charitable Trust (MECT), an organization of educators, is the power behind the project that aims mainly at increasing educational standards for the people of the region. M. Moideen Kutty, chairman of the MECT, emphasized the need for such a high standard school in the district, which is educationally backward.
“Our school will also impart moral education in order to achieve spiritual refinement of students,” he added. Vidyanagar Public School will follow the syllabus of the Central Board of Secondary Education in New Delhi.
The trust has obtained a vast land close to the town of Malappuram to establish the school and other educational institutions. Vidyanagar will have separate hostels for boys and girls, a mosque, staff quarters, a guesthouse, indoor and outdoor stadiums, a swimming pool and a primary health center.
Kutty said the MECT was formed in 2002 in order to establish academic and technological institutions in Malappuram as part of a move to boost the district’s overall development. “After completing the school, the trust intends to establish a number of technological institutes and start other useful courses,” Kutty told Arab News.
The trust is an extension of the Falahiya Association, which runs an Arabic College and secondary and primary madrassas. Established in 1979, Falahiya has been playing a vital role in educating the boys and girls of the region. Many of its graduates are working in the Gulf in different capacities.
“We have initiated the new high school project inspired by the success of Falahiya College,” said Kutty, who is also the principal of the college.
Kutty, who has several years experience in the academic field, commended the Keralite expatriate community in the Gulf for their sincere support and encouragement to educational projects in the state.
“I am very much confident that this high school project would be a big success, with the grace of God,” he said.
