Bal Sansar Public School (BSPS), Ajmer
BSPS aims to provide quality education to children from play group to elementary level (till grade 8th), under private school registration rules of the government of Rajasthan. Further, we aim to provide quality education till senior secondary level in proximity, particularly in the case of girls. The main reason for girls’ dropout after fifth and further after 8th grads’ education is ‘not being allowed to go far from their village’ to continue their education till senior secondary, and beyond. Our pre-school education is the school readiness programme with the development of multiple intelligence of children with age-appropriate physical and life-skill activities, cognitive training of senses and creativity of children. The 2023-24 session enrolled 120 kids (with a ratio of 60:40 girls: boys) from the surrounding villages, most of them come from humble background (80 percent of parents are engaged in labour with poor paying capacity). We aim to provide them with quality education enabling them to claim equal development and growth opportunities in life Only 50% of children pay their fees (which is very nominal), and we are running this school with lots of financial difficulties. Many parents are daily wage earners and the education of their children is not a priority for them.
We need to mobilize resources to develop essential infrastructure, setting up smart classes, improving seating arrangements for the students, and even support our faculty /school operations and hence, we appeal to the people who can afford to spare some of their earnings for these poor children / supporting their education and development (even contributing as minimum as INR 8000 (or 100 USD) per month will support education of two children).
From March 2020, schools were shut down following the Covid-19 guidelines issued by the central and state governments. In Feb.2021 the schools were opened following the government’s guidelines allowing reopening of schools. However, it didn’t continue for long and the next guidelines were issued soon to close the schools till the next orders. Considering the increase in COVID-19-positive cases, it seems, that schools are not opening soon, particularly for the primary and elementary classes.
Our team worked on spreading awareness on the Covid-19 appropriate behaviors and counseling the parents and children to keep their mental health and wellbeing as a priority.
Throughout the lockdown period, students were being regularly supported by the BSPS teachers as their voluntary action, in conducting the final exams, preparing results, and promoting students to the next grades. All 156 students were promoted to the next grades, in both the academic years i.e., 2020 and 2021. Next academic sessions 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 were regularized by re-building our strengths and mobilizing resources.
Recently, the school infrastructure is fully renovated and 2 smart classrooms with seating facilities are setup (thanks to CSR funding support that we did receive from the Mitsubishi Elevator India Private Limited).