A meeting on verification of Special Learning Centre of Bhubaneswar Urban slum was organized by BISWA Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) on 25th May 2009 at its office.  The meeting was chaired by Mr. Prafulla Dhal, Director BRIC. It was attended by all the BRIC staff members and from head office Sri Rabindra Kumar Mohanthy, Manager Programmes BISWA participated in it. After a customary session of self introduction by participating members, the meeting entered into the business session. Mr. Dhal clearly spelt out the vision & mission of BISWA and future focus on education. He said that only Bhubaneswar is having 377 slums with 4.00 lacs population and 29% of them are children in the age group of 0-18 years.  Out of 377 slums, only 100 and odd are registered under Bhubaneswar Municipality Corporation (BMC), where as the rest are under tremendous pressure in terms of getting government services. He also emphasized that there is a need in terms of right based development of the slum people and reach out to the children, who are most vulnerable without any access to schools. In the afternoon, a meeting was organized to meet the teachers of Special Learning Centres of BBSR slums. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Biswal, wherein 12 teachers attended from 7 schools. Similarly the teachers introduced themselves in the beginning to the chair. Most of the teachers were having requisite qualifications to continue in the present service. But they required on the job capacity building in emergent low cost teaching alongwith learning materials and different playway methods of classroom transactions.  In the meeting, it was finalized to visit all the centres, and teachers were asked to inform their slum committees to attend the meeting as per the scheduled time and visit. On 26th of May'09, at Similibasti slum, Surya Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Mr. Pitabas Sethi, Secretary BISWA chaired the session. Many issues were discussed, wherein women members of the slums specifically raised the issues of alcoholism, non solidarity among people and non access of mainstreaming school education of their children. Here the special learning centre is found functioning in the community hall since last one year with a positive impact on their children's performances. Soon after that the team visited Rameswarpatna slum. The schools are running in a private rented house with a cost of Rs.2000/ per month. It was a pleasant surprise to notice that only women members participated in the meeting. After some interactions with the mothers and few adolescent girls, it was disclosed that there are many issues needs to be resolved soon with regards to employment and education of their kids. On 27th the team went to Jharana slum near Mancheswar. The school is functioning in the community building. Toilet and drinking water facility are not available anywhere close to the community hall. It was observed during the interactive sessions with the people that 52 children have access to that school. They disclosed that the school was started by "World Vision" and then "Ruchika" took over in the year 2002. After Ruchika "The Alpha Foundation" took over the school and last year it closed down the business. "BISWA" have taken over the management since last two months. It was noticed that the schools are functioning in the rented house in Science Park slum, where the classrooms are very small without having proper ventilation. There is no provision of toilet and drinking water facility for the students coming to that school. Although the slum is having similar kind of facility in the style of Crèche School run by a local NGO, we found there is enough need for a "BISWA" school, because there are 2000 families. After visiting the slums, we sat at "BRIC" office to consolidate the findings.