Modi to open ‘Bal Gokulam’ in Vadodara

Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi will inaugurate country’s first of its kind Rs 2.5 crore children’s home, ‘Bal Gokulam’ on Saturday in Vadodara where orphans, lost children, labourers, abandoned and poor single parent children will be rehabilitated.

The building constructed in PPP mode has public residential school, basket ball and volleyball courts, four dormitories, with comfortable beds and cupboards, to house 100 children, modern class rooms to provide formal as well as computer training, indoor game hall.

-Vadodara district baal samrakshan mandal is operating remand home for children in front of Bhutadi zampa ground since 1949, but the building was old. Then came industrial houses and donors who contributed Rs 3 crore for revamp of this building.

-District collector Nehra had decided to do this project as part of Golden goal on the occasion of golden jubilee of Gujarat’s statehood.

-Bal Gokulam is spread over 28000 sq ft plot with built up of 17,200 sq ft.

-Gail India(Rs 54 lakh), Kemrock industries and exports(Rs 50 lakh), ONGC(Rs 35 lakh), MP fund(Rs 25 lakh), Parul Arogya Seva Mandal(Rs 20 lakh), Kabra foundation(Rs 11 lakh), GIPCL(Rs 8 lakh), Torque automotive(Rs 5 lakh), MLA fund(Rs 5 lakh), IOCL(Rs 2 lakh) and other donors.