Tata Power Club Enerji, Tata ClassEdge collaborate to guide students to become responsible citizens

Mumbai, July 30 : Club Enerji, Tata Power’s nationwide movement, has been relentlessly working towards spreading the message of becoming responsible citizens through conservation of energy and resources.

In pursuance of its theme of conservation of values, towards building a value-based nation, Club Enerji and Tata ClassEdge have joined hands to create a module titled ‘Conservation and Civic Sense’.

Targeted at students, the stimulating module will be accessible to schools and include materials on energy and resource conservation as well as on conservation of civic and moral values and guiding students towards becoming responsible citizens.

Club Enerji’s collaboration with Tata ClassEdge builds upon reinforcing its contribution towards nation building.

With its innovative and comprehensive instructional solution, Tata ClassEdge provides teachers the support required to make classroom learning a holistic and enjoyable process. Supported by a robust instructional design model – the multiple learning experiences model (MLExâ„¢) – ClassEdge provides comprehensive curriculum-mapped lesson plans, which includes activities, multimedia and other material that are tagged at different levels. Since its inception, ClassEdge has become a trusted partner to over 1200 schools across India.

“As part of our centenary year celebrations, we have enhanced our Club Enerji programmes to encourage children of today to become responsible citizens of tomorrow. Our partnership with Tata ClassEdge will be beneficial towards children’s overall development and further ensure their readiness in their future role as nation builders,” said Anil Sardana, MD and CEO, Tata Power, speaking on the initiative.

“With innovative pedagogic and educational technology abilities of Tata ClassEdge, our Club Enerji programme will sensitise the citizens of tomorrow, the need of being moral and growing as responsible citizens to promote energy and resource conservation. At Tata Power, we are committed to lighting-up-lives for the years to come,” added Sardana.

Nirav Khambhati, CEO, Tata ClassEdge, said, “We are excited to collaborate with another Tata firm that shares our goal of nurturing young Indians not only as thinkers and innovators, but also as responsible citizens. Through our partnership with Tata Power Club Enerji, we aim to deliver the message of losing no time in striving for a greener, safer and happier tomorrow, directly to the future custodians of the country.”

Over the last few years, Tata ClassEdge has introduced a series of innovative offerings which include GameEdge, LabEdge, TestEdge and PlanEdge-covering academic planning, assessments, virtual labs and gamification.

Most recently, the firm also released ClassEdge Connect, a collaborative platform for teachers to share resources and teaching ideas across schools.

The Club Enerji initiative has been contributing extensively towards a brighter and greener tomorrow by undertaking several successful initiatives. The savings of 14.2 MU of electricity is equivalent to saving 14,200 tonne of CO2 and is enough to light up over 6,943 houses for a year.

The initiative has further sensitised approximately 9.3million citizens cross 11 locations in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, Lonavala, Maithon, Belgaum, Jamshedpur and Ranchi.

Today, Club Enerji has become a holistic movement to save energy and natural resources. It has reached out to over 480 schools in India with a total of 1,59,103 energy champions, and 2,04,719 energy ambassadors.

Tata Power’s Club Enerji has won numerous accolades and has been recognised as a best practice in forums like ‘Learning Mission’ by the Tata group. A case study has also been done by IIM Ahmedabad on the programme.

Further, it has won the gold at the ABCI awards in the category ‘Best Communication Material’ and bronze for its Resource Conservation Module. Also, Asia Pacific Enterprise Leadership Awards (APELA), Singapore, has conferred ‘APELA 2012 – Eco Advocate Award’ to Club Enerji. (ANI)