About us

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1499244730849{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;background-color: #fafafa !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”7591″ img_size=”full”][stm_spacer height=”0″ height_tablet=”0″ height_mobile=”30″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”About Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad was founded in Delhi in the year 2000, with the AIM to:

• Realize the untapped potential of Rural and Tribal India which has waited for long to emerge and flourish.
• Come forth empowered socially and economically as the New Face of India.
• BLSP is committed for bringing them in to the main stream of national progress and bridging the Gap and minimize the disparity between urban and rural society.
• Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad (BLSP) is a  non profit organization dedicated to upbringing of downtrodden society of India in to main stream of development.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1499244730849{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;background-color: #fafafa !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Education in India and Ekal’s Emergence” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]While India is making giant advances in software, space and nuclear power, it is paradoxically still struggling with basic literacy for a large segment of its population. At the time of independence India’s literacy rate was a staggering 11%. Since then, it has made tremendous strides in educating its people. According to 2011 census, the literacy rate has grown to 74.4%; however, this figure is still below the world average literacy rate of 84%. The RGI census data states that though the gap between the literacy rate in urban and rural areas is steadily declining, the divide still exists. The literacy rate among the urban population is 84.1%, while the literacy rate of the rural population is only 67.8%.The tribal/rural inhabitants live in remote areas far from major cities. They are often unreachable by road and untouched by electricity, causing them to be neglected by development agencies. Hence the Ekal Vidyalaya Movement emerged as the most pragmatic solution to this national feed.

To date, Ekal Vidyalaya is a movement of over 84,090 teachers, 8000 voluntary workers, 10 field organization (throughout 25 Indian states), and 8 support agencies. It operates in over 84,090 schools and educates approx  2.19 million children. Apart from its goal of achieving the national standards of Minimum Levels of Learning, Ekal Vidyalaya seeks to empower the village community for its own self-development through five verticals of Functional Education, Health care Education, Development Education, Empowerment Education and Ethics & value Education. Ekal Vidyalaya is the key to this Movement’s remarkable success.

In late 1980s during the period of Ekal’s founding, children in rural India did not have many options for getting education. According to the census in 1981 only 38% boys & 25% of girls in rural India between the age group of 6 to 10 years attended school. There were reasons, such as the lack of interest in education, economic barriers, helping in household activities and non-availability of accessible schools as stated in the survey of 1989.

Rammurthi Committee Report played an important role in strategizing and setting directions for Ekal Movement. The committee pointed out that the rural areas in general and the tribal areas in particular, have suffered in terms of resources, personnel infrastructure facility. This phenomenon of regional disparities in educational development has acquired a major political dimension in the current Indian scene. It is reflected in the regional and sub-regional movements. Therefore, the need of the hour is planning for and implementation of educational development programs.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

Thus the committee pointed out that “No more will a patch here or a patch there will do. The need of hour is a People’s Movement for a New Education, not for a few but for all.”

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1497952248244{padding-top: 55px !important;background-color: #fafafa !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Our Story” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Ekal had presented solutions to the many issues surfaced in the survey of 1986. They tackled the lack of interest in education by introducing Joyful Learning system which is a Non-Formal Method of Teaching. In terms of economic barriers, Ekal follows a low-cost model. The Ekal school schedules are based on convenient hours recommended by Gram Samiti, allowing time to children for household economic activities and domestic chores to be completed. Lastly, Ekal brings the schools and teachers directly to the villages, overcoming the issue of inaccessible schools.

Despite the increase in rural children attending school after the RTE passed, there continued to be need for Ekal schools since government schools were not well run. The teacher’s absenteeism and the quality of classroom teaching were deeply disappointing issues. In 2013, Ekal schools were the only source of education in approximately 20% of the villages in which they operated.

The story of Ekal is embedded deep in the history formatting different layers. New intellectuals endowed with social dream unleashed the first layer. Late Dr. Rakesh Popli (Indian Nuclear Physicist), Dr. Rajneesh Arora, Dr. Mahesh Sharma from IIT and Mr. Ashok Bhagat from BHU visited Bishunpur in Gumla district (presently in Jharkhand) in the year 1983 and conducted a situational analysis of these tribal areas. Their study identified Education, Health Care, Poverty and Skill Development as the key issues to be addressed to develop the tribal areas. Dr. Rakesh Popli and Dr. Rajneesh Arora did some initial work on education models for the rural and tribal communication, which laid the foundation of experiment of Single Teacher Schools.

In 1985, Shri Shyam Ji Gupta a social activist and visionary had initiated a plan in Phoolbani district of Orissa for development of tribal society called “Phoolbani district upgradation project”, under this project night schools were running in 400 villages where children came along with adult villagers. In order to implement the programme better and to get support from cities, many affluent families from Kolkata motivated by Sri Shyam ji went to Phoolbani district as part of the Vanyatra. While returning from the journey it was decided that a group may be formed which would bring out the realities and problems of these tribal societies and make the urban people aware of them who are ignorant of this reality. Thus “Friends of Tribals Society” was founded as a response to bridge the gap between tribals and urban citizens of India, in Kolkata in 1989.

In this continuation Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad (BLSP) was founded in Delhi in the year 2000 to spread the Ekal Vidyalaya Movement in Northern part of the country. BLSP’s spread is in Utter Pradesh,  Himachal, Uttarakhand,  and Jammu.

BLSP is currently running 20625 Ekal Vidyalayas in 20625 villages of the above said states. The direct intervention of BLSP involves monitoring of Ekal schemes in remote tribal/rural areas, resource management through Donor cultivation, quality updating by regular supervision, periodical evaluation of the work and training of Ekal Teachers and volunteers. Besides this BLSP has opened its branches (Chapters) in all the states to Procure and generate resources and urban volunteers.

Hence, there are chapters in Varanasi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Jammu,  Moradabad,  South Delhi, North Delhi,  West Delhi,  East Delhi, Central Delhi, C.S.R, Gurugram, and Faridabad, Panchkula.

These chapters are organizing fundraising programs, cultivation of urban volunteers to support administration and Ekal works. The chapter committee members have direct intervention with Gram Sangathan and Sevavrati Volunteers also through various meetings.

Today BLSP as the front-runner organization of Ekal Vidyalaya Movement stands on the strong foundation build by many social leaders, business magnets and Pioneers of Social activism. The contribution of Sh. Laxmi Narian Goel, Sh. Sat Narayan  Bandhu, Sh. Vineet Kumar Gupta. Sh. Vimal Mawandia, Sh. Jai Prakash Aggarwal, Sh. Surender Kumar Jindal,  Sh. Subhash Aggarwal, Sh. Om Prakash Singhal,  Sh. Naresh Kumar, Sh. Naresh Jain, Sh Ghanshyam Dass Goel,  Sh. Nand Kishor Aggarwal,  Sh. Neeraj Raizada, Sh. Rajiv Aggarwal, Dr. Virendra Kumar  And   Sh. Ashwani Aggarwal is worth noting.

The concept of “One Teacher School” was conceived in Gumla (Jharkhand) in June 1986 in a seminar to find out the solution to the problem of illiteracy in tribal villages. Sh. Bhau Rao Devras a renowned social activist had outlined the concept of One Teacher School. Dr. Rakesh Popli helped in refining the concept and wrote the Book “Khele Kude Nache Gaye” about non-formal method of teaching, for the pioneering schools that were established among the tribal later on.

The same year, Late Sh. Madan Lal Agarwala, an eminent industrialist who owned coal mines in and around Dhanbad, decided to put this idea of Shri Bhau Rao in practice and set the stage for setting up of first 60 Ekal Vidyalayas (One Teacher Schools) in Dhanbad. This was the first successful experiment of Ekal Vidyalaya by Late Sh. Madan Lal Aggarwala.

This humble initiative of Ekal Vidyalaya got wings when Sh. Shyam Gupt ji became the Master Architect of the whole Ekal System in 1989-90 under the banner of Friends of Tribals Society. With his tremendous organizational capacity and unparalleled imaginative and analytical power he translated a simple Ekal Vidyalaya in to a magnanimous global movement of Bharat in span of 30 years.

Since then Sh. Shyam Gupt ji, the farsighted visionary has been the constant source of Inspiration and guidance for the entire Ekal Movement Pariwar and its multifaceted ventures.

The significance of their contribution is multifold. The Tremendous spirit of Volunteerism has been driving force with which these eminent personalities dedicated their Tan – Man – Dhan to the noble cause of Ekal Movement.[/vc_column_text][stm_spacer height=”80″ height_tablet=”60″ height_mobile=”40″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” stm_parallax=”enable” shadow_x_offset=”0″ shadow_y_offset=”0″ shadow_blur=”0″ shadow_spread=”0″ shadow_color=”” css=”.vc_custom_1520251917030{background-image: url(https://ekalblspindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/banner-3.jpg?id=2167) !important;}” stm_transparent_bg=”rgba(89,30,0,0.6)”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-lg-5 vc_col-md-5 vc_col-xs-12″][stm_spacer height=”92″ height_tablet=”60″ height_mobile=”60″][vc_column_text]

MISSION

• To provide non-formal primary education through cost effective One Teacher school (O.T.S.) i.e. Ekal Vidyalaya.
• To promote health-care by health-care education and first aid under Arogya Yojna.
• To achieve economic development by educating and training for small vocations and imparting training for Zero Cost Natural Farming with the cheapest and most effective manure prepared with cow dung and pesticide with cow urine.
• Empower education by creating awareness about their rights, achieving their dues out of government projects with the help of Right to Information Act, enabling them to become self-reliant and live with self-respect.
• Cultural and spiritual awareness with sanskar education.
• Achievement of rural urban co-ordination by vanyatras undertaken by urban citizens in the tribal villages.

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VISION

Empowerment of crores of Tribals and Rural brethren of Bharat, by making them socially strong, educationally aware, economically vibrant and self-reliant so that with their involvement Mother Bharat reaches the pinnacle of glory.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][stm_spacer height=”100″ height_tablet=”210″ height_mobile=”210″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1497948295857{margin-top: -170px !important;}”][vc_column width=”5/6″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-2 vc_col-lg-8 vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8 vc_col-sm-offset-1 vc_col-xs-12″ css=”.vc_custom_1499677028707{padding-right: 55px !important;padding-left: 55px !important;}” el_class=”sm_pd_0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1499686499932{padding-top: 68px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 37px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #fdb714 !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Our Core Values” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” heading_line=”no_line” heading_icon=”stmicon-icon-title-shape” heading_icon_pos=”bottom” heading_icon_color=”custom” heading_icon_custom_color=”#ffffff” css=”.vc_custom_1497942729024{margin-bottom: 70px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Savior has four core values that are more than just buzzwords. They’re at the center of our office culture and drive our daily work.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1497948295857{margin-top: -170px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-2 vc_col-lg-8 vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8 vc_col-sm-offset-1 vc_col-xs-12″ css=”.vc_custom_1499677028707{padding-right: 55px !important;padding-left: 55px !important;}” el_class=”sm_pd_0″][vc_custom_heading text=”Our Goals” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” heading_line=”no_line” heading_icon=”stmicon-icon-title-shape” heading_icon_pos=”bottom” heading_icon_color=”custom” heading_icon_custom_color=”#808080″ css=”.vc_custom_1518518101640{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1499144134522{padding-top: 80px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][stm_icon_box icon=”fa fa-graduation-cap” icon_size=”72″ icon_width=”70″ style=”style_7″ title=”Shikshit Gaon”]Every child must get basic education. They further literate their elders. No villager uses thumb impression now.[/stm_icon_box][stm_spacer height=”75″ height_tablet=”75″ height_mobile=”15″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][stm_icon_box icon=”stmicon-med_heartbeat” icon_width=”70″ style=”style_7″ title=”Swastha Gaon”]All the villagers are taught preventive healthcare and hygiene. Children are given vaccination. Trained Arogya Sevika serves in the village.[/stm_icon_box][stm_spacer height=”75″ height_tablet=”75″ height_mobile=”15″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][stm_icon_box icon=”stmicon-charity_piggy_bank” icon_width=”70″ style=”style_7″ title=”Swawlambi Gaon”]The motto is “Har Hath ko Kam, Har Khet ko Pani”. Encouraging organic farming to provide chemical free food and profitable farming. Reducing migration to cities.[/stm_icon_box][stm_spacer height=”75″ height_tablet=”75″ height_mobile=”15″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][stm_icon_box icon=”stmicon-charity_head_time” icon_size=”74″ icon_width=”70″ style=”style_7″ title=”Jagruk Gaon”]Motto is “Jagruk Matdata – Shikshit Gaon”. Functional and effective Gram Sabha practice duties and avail privileges of government welfare schemes.[/stm_icon_box][stm_spacer height=”0″ height_tablet=”0″ height_mobile=”15″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][stm_icon_box icon=”stmicon-charity_earth” icon_size=”63″ icon_width=”70″ style=”style_7″ title=”Nasha Mukt Gaon”]Liquor free villages. No Ganjha and Charas to be allowed in the village. Planting Tulsi as symbol of liquor free house.[/stm_icon_box][stm_spacer height=”0″ height_tablet=”50″ height_mobile=”15″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][stm_icon_box icon=”stmicon-charity_peoples” icon_size=”63″ icon_width=”70″ style=”style_7″ title=”Samras Gaon”]Social harmony among village community. Eradication of untouchability. Promoting community participation and partnership.[/stm_icon_box][stm_spacer height=”0″ height_tablet=”50″ height_mobile=”15″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1497953996557{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][stm_spacer height=”110″ height_tablet=”80″ height_mobile=”60″][vc_custom_heading text=”Area Of Operation” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” heading_line=”no_line” heading_icon=”stmicon-icon-title-shape” heading_icon_pos=”bottom” heading_icon_color=”custom” heading_icon_custom_color=”#808080″ css=”.vc_custom_1517856353271{margin-bottom: 75px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title=”Section 1″ tab_id=”1517900722387-84b4c6d6-7454″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”9450″ img_size=”400*400″ style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://ekalblspindia.org/himachal-pardesh/”][vc_custom_heading text=”Himachal pardesh” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24px|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:%20http%3A%2F%2Fekal.tngwebsolutions.ca%2Fhimachal-pardesh%2F|||”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”9451″ img_size=”400*400″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://ekalblspindia.org/uttarakhand/”][vc_custom_heading text=”Uttrakhand” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24px|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:%20http%3A%2F%2Fekal.tngwebsolutions.ca%2Futtarakhand%2F|||”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”9452″ img_size=”400*400″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://ekalblspindia.org/uttar-pradesh/”][vc_custom_heading text=”Uttar Pradesh” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24px|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fekal.tngwebsolutions.ca%2Futtar-pradesh%2F|||”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”9453″ img_size=”400*400″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://ekalblspindia.org/jammu-kashmir/”][vc_custom_heading text=”Jammu & Kashmir” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24px|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fekalblspindia.org%2Fjammu-kashmir%2F|||”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Section 2″ tab_id=”1517900722439-02747063-361a”][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_pageable][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”FAQ” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” heading_line=”no_line” heading_icon=”stmicon-icon-title-shape” heading_icon_pos=”bottom” heading_icon_color=”custom” heading_icon_custom_color=”#808080″ css=”.vc_custom_1518517999291{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_toggle title=”What do children do upon completion of the three year Ekal Vidyalaya curriculum?”]Graduates from the EV program often chose one of three options:

• Formal government schooling
• Continue, private, primary schooling
• An Ekal Vidyalaya weekly refresher class

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• Students cannot / do not attend primary education centers.
• Ekal Vidyalaya supplements formal education
• Ekal Vidyalaya imparts moral values

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• Comprehensive and holistic village development approach
• Local Participation and empowerment
• Emphasis on self sufficiency
• Nation-wide network
• Concept is based on mass voluntarism
• Youth and female involvement
• Complete transparency and accountability
• Maximum donation reaches the grassroots level

A true movement with a goal of 100,000 schools[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”How does the imparted education help to develop people and a community?”]

• Promotes further education
• Builds children’s and villagers’ self-confidence
• Boosts self-respect
• Creates an impulse to further develop community
• Prevents exploitation
• Language and mathematic basics
• Games, stories, and other non-formal methods
• Goals –

• • • Advanced training
    • Recharges the teachers’ energy
    • 1 Day Monthly Practical ‘Masik Abhyas Varg’

• Timing – Monthly meeting
• Activities –

• • • Share experiences and reporting
    • Discuss problems, hurdles, and successes
    • Update monthly lesson plan

Goals – Refresh what was learned at the 5 Day Practical ‘Abhyas Varg.'[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”How can one teacher handle three different class and grade levels?”]

• Multi-grade teaching
• A heavily researched and studied education technique
• Used by dozens of developing countries
• Students are grouped by ability and grade level
  • Three such groups constitute an Ekal Vidyalaya
• Such small groups are conducive to learning
• Requires a trained teacher, inspired students, and a parental and community support.
  • Constant enquiring supervision
• Village committee support
  • Monitored progress

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• Functional Education has five verticals:
  • Primary education
  • Health Education
  • Village Development Education
  • People Empowerment
  • Ethics & Value Education
• In the health education concept, we aim to impart:
  • Health hygiene education
  • Preventive measures
  • Mother-child care
  • Curative treatment of general diseases
  • A referral service for serious cases

[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”How does Ekal Vidyalaya manage to run on such a minimal budget?”]Low administrational overhead

1. • Below 10 percent

Few capital costs

1. • Minimal teacher’s honorarium
   • Minimal worker’s honorarium
   • Volunteerism
   • Teaching aids

Support of the villagers and surrounding Local Securities.

1. • Moral Support
   • Financial Support

[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”As volunteers and committees are not financially motivated, what drives them to continue?”]Working for their OWN community.

Educating Their people

Preventing exploitation of society

A voluntary attitude and missionary zeal.

Service of the Nation[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”As the average teacher is even below a tenth-grade, high school graduate, how is he or she qualified to teach in Ekal Vidyalaya?”]Upon finding a capable, potential teacher, a series of training sessions assure that the teacher is thoroughly qualified.

• 5-Day Preliminary ‘Prathamik Varg’
  • Timing – Before school is started
  • Activities – Prepare an initial lesson plan
  • Goals – Understand responsibilities and potential
    • Basic direction
    • Impart a basic understanding of the EV concept
  • 5 Day Practical ‘Abhyas Varg’
    • Timing – Three months after school starts and every 6 months thereafter.
    • Activities – Study the Multi-grade concept

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