Education has always been characterized as a slow mover. However in the current global scenario even education has changed in character and form. Developments in the last 500 years or so have been now been time framed in 10 to 12 years. Students are looking beyond the geographical boundaries. Technology and easily available information is providing them with opportunities to seek global citizenship and they are quite aware that this will demand the best from them. They need to be equipped with best and international quality education to face these challenges.

Education is a key driver for socio-economic development of any country. The Human Resources form the very backbone for such Nation Building and India is blessed with a large population base, which can be transformed into a huge and effective intellectual capital. This is the basis for the debate on India becoming superpower. It is essential to map this intellectual capital to the needs of Human Resource development and Nation Building.

As a responsible NGO and working in the field of education, Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana (BJS) naturally has been studying the educational scenario in the country for the last few years. While conducting the needs assessment, BJS has observed that the benefits of these changes are still restricted to bigger cities and not percolated to the rural areas. The situation is typical since the information is now reaching beyond the major cities but facilities for quality education are not being extended in these large areas.

BJS therefore has accepted this challenge and put together a team of 100 professionals to work out, research, design and develop these programs for effective and quality education. Care has been taken to ensure that these must be implemented within the existing parameters of syllabus and availability of existing teachers only. Aiming at holistic development of children is the need of the hour. Hence a carefully crafted judicious mix of effective academics, exposure to co-curricular subjects and extra curricular activities is necessary. BJS attempts to precisely address these while developing the programs to bring about a paradigm shift in educational delivery concept and prepare the children to be “future ready”.

The deliverables through this project focus on 6 thrust areas namely : 1) Support decision makers to face the challenges in education. 2) Leading towards holistic development of the students. 3) Empowering teachers for better educational delivery. 4) Guidance for better utilization of resources. 5) Building bridges with technology. 6) To collectively contribute in Nation Building through Excellence in Education.

BJS has adopted this strategy and is now geared up with programs like Trustee and Management Training, Accreditation for schools, teacher empowerment through skills upgradation and many more. These programs have been developed and tested for its effectivity.