'Ekal Run 2023' flagged off from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi
Oct 08, 2023
New Delhi [India], October 8 : 'Ekal Run', a marathon organised by the youth wing of Ekal Abhiyan known as Ekal Yuva, was flagged off on Sunday morning in Delhi.
A non-profit organisation, Ekal Yuva-Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad, organised the event at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Ekal Yuva aims to bring basic education to every child across rural India.
Speaking to ANI at the event, Olympic bronze medalist Yogeshwar Dutt said, "Today I want to thank the organizers of Ekal Run for organizing this event. The way they are trying to reach out to children in villages with the aim of imparting education is praiseworthy. Their initiative of adopting children and providing them with quality education and helping them focus on sports is excellent work. I hope they keep working for the future of the country this way."
"If we talk about the Asian Games, our players have created history, and have crossed the 100 mark for the first time. We won 70 medals in the previous Asian Games, and this year we won 107 medals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants India to excel in every field, our athletes have brought honour to the nation and made India proud," Dutt told ANI.
Ekal Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad aims at social transformation in rural and tribal India by spreading education. The mission of the organization is to bring basic education to every child across rural India.
Ekal Vidyalaya is inspired by the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda, the principles of social harmony and equality of Dr BR Ambedkar and the village development model of Mahatma Gandhi. It involves integrated development of rural and tribal India and Nepal. The main activity undertaken in the movement is to run one-teacher schools all over India in rural and tribal villages to provide education to every child.
To achieve the National standards of Minimum Level of Learning, EkalVidyalaya seeks to empower the village community for its own self-development through five verticals of functional education, health care education, development education, empowerment education, ethics and value education.
Ekal Vidyalaya has a concept of 'one village, one school, one teacher'. As of April 2022, Ekal Abhiyan had more than 21 lakh students enrolled in over 75,000 schools who are getting the benefit of primary education in rural and tribal villages in every state of India.
The Ekal Abhiyan is also involved Ekal Gramothan Foundation which seeks to empower rural and tribal villages by imparting skills and training and creating economic opportunities.
Ekal Abhiyan Trust was awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize 2017.
