"Japan to enter into partnership with Super 30 to boost primary education in Bihar", 01 Mar 2015

Takanobu Tanaka of a global company, Ricoh is currently working towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to supporting community development efforts in developing countries…Tanaka is keen to enter into partnership with Anand Kumar for providing quality education to the poor and downtrodden students pursuing their studies in the government primary schools… "In the first phase, we will focus on primary education and later will take it forward in other directions, including environment education," he said… He said that the focus would be on content development by involving the stakeholders so that the solutions could be sustainable and bring about generational change… "[In India…[m]any children cannot study due to poverty. We want to make technology accessible to schools and make them use it effectively by ensuring capacity building," he added…