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Tatas donate 22 schools to quake victims
Economic Times — August 16, 2002

Ahmedabad: Tata group’s relief and rehabilitation division, Tata Relief Committee (TRC), recently donated 22 school buildings in the quake affected Rapar taluka of Kutch district to the Gujarat government.

A group statement said that TRC has completed the project of constructing 22 school buildings consisting of 123 classrooms in a record time of eight months. The total project cost is Rs 3.15 crore. It said that the school buildings are designed and constructed as per rigid engineering standards, which can withstand any natural calamities including an earth quake.

The government of Gujarat contributed Rs 75,000 per classroom for 99 classrooms in 17 primary school buildings. Other contributions were Chennai based Murugappa group and Gujarati Samaj of Jamshedpur.

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