Children and Education

Dalmia Higher Secondary School

From its inception in 1950, the Dalmia Higher Secondary School (DHSS) has endeavored to educate the local population as well as the Dalmia Bharat employees through high quality education.

In the entire Lalgudi Educational District, DHSS is the first school to be accredited with 5-star status by the Bharathidasan University. With a current strength of 1850 students, the school has consistently delivered results at an average 99% in 10th and 96% results in 12th standards respectively for the past five years.

In the Scouts & Guides programme, 5 students were awarded the prestigious Rashtrapati Award & 18 received the Rajya Puraskar Awards.

The Vivekananda Matriculation School

Since 1989, Vivekananda Matriculation School (VMS) has been meeting the requirements of the public in and around Dalmiapuram, to offer the best in school education.

VMS is providing English medium education with a very nominal fee structure that is affordable by all section of the society. As many as 540 students benefit from the best available coaching in academic and extracurricular spheres, which include Yoga and group recitation of verses from sacred texts and prayers to develop spiritual faculties of children, besides Hindi language classes, sports and culture. The school has the distinction of producing 100% results in 10th standard regularly.

Other Achievements

At our cement locations, we have been able to reach to almost  200 beneficiaries. 110 children were given merit awards. 30 illiterate were enrolled in the adult education programme.  54 children completed computer education.  Our education programme’s target is to ensure zero drop out and 100% school attendance for children up to 14 years of age.

At our sugar locations, 420 children are undergoing remedial education programme that will substantially improve their performance in subjects. This year we have expanded our CSR programmes to all our 3 sugar plants.