What is the purpose of "Vidyanjali Yojana"?

1. To enable the famous foreign educational institutions to open their campuses in India.
2. To increase the quality of education provided in government schools by taking help from the private sector and the community.
3. To encourage voluntary monetary contributions from private individuals and organizations so as to improve the infrastructure facilities for primary and secondary schools.

Select the correct answer using the code given below :

(a) 2 only

(b) 3 only

(c) 1 and 2 only

(d) 2 and 3 only

Vidyanjali - (School Volunteer Programme) is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education & Literacy to enhance community and private sector involvement in Government run elementary schools across the country under the overall aegis of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

HRD Ministry has launched an initiative called ‘Vidyanjali’ to encourage youngsters to volunteer their services at any neighbourhood government school. 

Vidyanjali will cover initiatives under CSR, PPP, PSU. But mobilizations of voluntary monetary contribution is not the primary and explicit ‘purpose’ of the scheme.The scheme is targeted at primary (Class 1 to 5) and upper primary classes (Class 6 to 8) so ‘secondary schools’ infrastructure facilities’ are beyond its scope of work. HRD ministry’s other schemes specifically count class 9 onwards as ‘secondary education’.