Azim Premji, the founder-chairman of IT major Wipro voiced his concern against the idea of promoting school students to the next class and stressed the need for adequate attention towards lost schooling days owing to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. Wipro's philanthropic arm has committed an additional ₹1,000 crore of grants over and above the ₹1,125-crore support it had announced in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic last year. Premji said that the additional grant will be directed primarily on universal vaccination. He termed the Covid-19 pandemic as a once-a-century event which led the people and the institutions to take it as a challenge and fight it with all the resources. “A comprehensive set of plans was drawn up in the early days itself to tackle both the humanitarian and health aspects,” Premji said.

Source: Hindustan Times July 07, 2021 10:30 UTC