Bengaluru, Nov. 4 -- Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday urged private school managements across the state to adopt or partner with government schools in rural areas, saying the initiative would help improve the quality of education and reduce migration from villages to cities.

Calling upon private schools to participate in the state government's 'Namma Shaale Namma Javabdari' (Our School, Our Responsibility) programme, Shivakumar said the government had introduced a new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy and was aiming to link 1,000 government schools with private schools in the initial phase.

He was speaking after inaugurating the programme at a meeting of Corporate Social Responsibility representatives held ...