VidyaGyan is an ambitious project. Rural Uttar Pradesh is plagued by several ills which include lack of hygiene, low awareness towards opportunities, caste
conflicts, religious intolerance and cynicism towards education within certain communities especially for girls.Students who come to join VidyaGyan belong to
communities that have seen little development and these children are eager for change. The students have matched every effort of ours with equal enthusiasm and
passion to embrace a future full of possibilities. More than that they have been the harbingers of change for their communities arranging adult literacy classes,
sessions on better agricultural productivity, gender equity, making available a filter to better process their drinking water etc. At every turn the students have
excelled over and beyond our expectations. They have not only proved themselves academically but also at every other activity that they have been assigned. Their
ideas about the future are revolutionary and give us hope that our dreams are not far from reality.
ABOUT VIDYAGYAN
A residential academy, VidyaGyan aims to drive transformation in the country by investing in the youth and catalyzing them into future leaders. It combs all the
75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Indias most populated state, to identify meritorious, rural students from economically underprivileged backgrounds. Once selected the
students, who would have already completed their primary schooling, are inducted to VidyaGyan in Class VI. The students spend seven years from class VI to XII at
the schools residential campuses in Bulandshahr or Sitapur. The young scholars of VidyaGyan follow a carefully crafted leadership curriculum that allows them to
explore their full potential.Established in 2009 by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, the inspiration for VidyaGyan stems from the belief that high-quality education will have a positive impact
on the academic and socio-economic structure of the society to a point where it can truly uplift and transform lives. VidyaGyan aims to provide the opportunities of
a world-class leadership academy to the economically backward students of rural India and transform their lives using high quality school education. VidyaGyan brings
students from rural India, who are potential high achievers, at par with their urban counterparts.
VISION AND MISSION
VISION
VidyaGyan envisions bridging the urban-rural divide by creating leaders from rural India, who can act as catalysts of change for their communities, villages, and
the entire nation.
MISSION
Create a Leadership Academy providing world-class education to the meritorious, rural, economically underprivileged students to shape them into future leaders
Create a Leadership Academy providing world-class education to the meritorious, rural, economically underprivileged students to shape them into future leaders
PILLARS
For a developing country like India, its population is its biggest strength and challenge. Indias populations grows younger as the rest of the world deals with
the problem of workforce shortage due to an ageing population. This demographic dividend of India can only be leveraged through skilling and education of its youth.
While change for betterment is inevitable, VidyaGyan was established to challenge the undersupply of leadership from rural India and nurture the restless youth who
want to accelerate the pace of that change and fast forward our journey towards the future.
MERITOCRACY DISCOVERING TALENT
VidyaGyan has a rigorous three part admission process; ensuring that only meritorious rural students are selected for induction. The VidyaGyan search process is
the largest search process in the country at the school level.
Following are the highlights of VidyaGyans search for talent:
400 students selected out of a total pool of 200,000 students.
Covering 90,000 Government schools in 75 districts of UP.
1 student selected out of every 500 students who apply
STORIES
The students of VidyaGyan narrate their stories about their journey to depict how drastically their lives have changed.
Shikha Sirohi
Shikha, hails from a village near Bulandshahr. Her father is a small-time
farmer and mother a housewife. The only girl child in her family, Shikhaslife constituted little more than helping her mother with the household chores and attending the government primary school. Her primary responsibility was helping
manage the house. However, in spite of her irregular attendance at the school, her school teachers and Principal identified her as a sharp student with a sense of
curiosity and a hunger to learn. Shikha was part of the batch of 10,000 students who took VidyaGyans first entrance test in 2009 and was selected as one of the 200
students who constituted the Founding Batch of the school.Her story is remarkable not because education has turned around her life but because she has been
instrumental in touching the lives of her peers in her village and motivating them to pursue education. She topped the grade XII CBSE examinations with 97%. She has
set an example in her village that girls can excel if given the right platform and opportunity
Vaishali
Vaishali comes from a family of four residing in the small village of Faidpur
Jaskoli in Moradabad district. Her father is a farmer and her mother a homemaker. Always an intelligent student, Vaishali joined VidyaGyan in 2009. She had
consistently been a top performer from her class.Intelligent and ambitious, Vaishali was keen to study Public Relations or Political Science at the undergraduate
level and would like to follow that up with a postgraduate degree in International Relations or Law. She understands the finer nuances of the subject and likes
studying ethics and ethical dilemmas. She likes to watch Michael Sandels series Justice. She is also making an effort to widen her horizons by reading books on
philosophy, which she finds fascinatingly challenging.
VISITORS
JAVED USMANI
I have always believed that Uttar Pradesh is a powerhouse of talent. After all it is the only
State in the country that has given us eight former Prime Ministers. However, to help ensure that a larger pool of future leaders emerges from every corner and
strata of the State, we need to ensure access to quality education to one and all. VidyaGyan is doing a wonderful job in selecting and nurturing hundreds of high
potential students from the economically underprivileged sections of the State and creating a model that can significantly alter the pace of progress in the State.
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