On 27 June 2018, at the Radisson Blu in Jaipur, Dr. Priyamvada Singh received the Rajasthan NGO Leadership Award at a ceremony held under the World CSR Day and World Sustainability Congress banner. Bal Sansar Sanstha was recognised again at the same awards the following year, on 1 July 2019.
What the award was recognising
By 2018, Bal Sansar Sanstha had been working in Rajasthan for twenty-six years. The organisation had run a community care centre for people living with HIV in Ajmer, a residential home for children orphaned by AIDS, targeted HIV prevention programmes in Tonk and Dungarpur districts, a radio-based health education project reaching more than seventeen thousand rural women, and — since 2013 — a village school in Hathikhera.
Awards in the development sector tend to be given for a body of work rather than a single achievement, and that is the right way to read this one. What it recognised was persistence across programmes and decades in the same districts, with the same communities.
The founder’s background
Dr. Priyamvada Singh holds a PhD, an LLB and an MBA, and founded Bal Sansar Sanstha in Jaipur in 1992.
Her professional work has run alongside the organisation throughout. She has served in the prevention of parent-to-child transmission programme at IHAT with the University of Manitoba, worked on CIDA-funded projects, held roles at IPE Global on the Udaan and RajPusht programmes, and served as State Head for Rajasthan at the Population Foundation of India. In her professional capacity she was part of the NACP-III design working group on the greater involvement of people living with HIV and on legal and ethical issues, and a member of the Technical Resource Group on Targeted Interventions for migrants.
That combination — running a grassroots organisation while working inside national programme design — is unusual, and it shows in how BSS operates: community-rooted delivery, with an understanding of the systems the community has to navigate.
The wider record
The 2018 and 2019 awards sit within a longer list of recognitions. Dr. Singh received an award at the International AIDS Conference in Durban in 2016, the Super Woman Award from Rotary International in Jaipur in March 2019, the Indo-Nepal Samrasta Award in February 2019, the Rajasthan Women Leadership Award from CMO Asia and CMO Global in November 2020, and the Rajasthan Women's Icon Award in 2021.
The organisation itself has been recognised on its programme performance as well as its leadership: NACO graded the community care centre project 'A' at its end-line assessment, and the targeted intervention work was top-ranked and selected as a state Learning Site — one of six in Rajasthan. In February 2014 BSS was a national finalist in the Life Skills category of the Dasra Girl Power Awards.
Most recently, Bal Sansar Sanstha received the Rajasthan Leadership Award 2026 for Best Social Welfare Initiative, at a ceremony in Jaipur on 29 May 2026.
What recognition is for
An award does not feed a child or treat a patient. Its practical value to an organisation like ours is narrower and still useful: it is third-party evidence, for a donor or a corporate partner deciding whether an unfamiliar NGO in Rajasthan can be trusted with a grant.
That is why we publish the record — alongside our audited accounts, registration certificates and annual reports on the documents page. The awards are one signal. The documents are the rest of the answer.
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