Educational Care
EDUCATION CARE
India is the 2nd most populous country with 142 Crores population has 8.9 % belonging to tribal communities which is around 12.6 Crores. As per Government statistics around 50% of tribal women are illiterate and and the school drop out rate is also high among the tribals. To improve the scenario ITCT has been working from day 1 in the education sector by making education accessible to all, improve the quality of education and reduce the drop out rate.
One of the main instrument is the Pathshala concept, which we have opening in tribal dominated villages so that more and more tribal children have access to quality education in their villages. At the beginning of 2023, we have opened 65+ more pathshalas in 60 new villages.
We are also running 18 schools across 4 states. Regular teachers training program are organised the improve the teaching quality of teachers. Poor tribal children are provided scholarships to support their desire to learn and reduce dropout rate.
BHAKTIVEDNATA NATIONAL SCHOOL
When India Tribal Care Trust was expanding its development activities across the northeastern states of Tripura, the Education department of Tripura state government approached ITCT to run some of its schools that were already closed due to lack of students or on the verge of closure. After thorough inspection by the secretary of the trust, Sridhar Panigrahi, ITCT signed MoU with the education department of state Government and took over 20 schools. Most of these schools were lacking basic infrastructure and the classrooms were also not usable. ITCT renovated these schools to make them usable for primary school children , appointed new teachers, ayah and support staff to take proper care of the children.
At present 14 of these schools are running in different districts of Tripura where not only tribal students but also students from non-tribal communities are also studying.
Our schools :
SL SCHOOL LOCATION STUDENTS STRENGTH
1 BVNS ANANDABAZAR Ajodhya, Purulia, West Bengal 316
2 BVNS AJODHYA 85
3 BVNS LANGTING 96
4 BVNS DIPHU 33
5 BVNS JAGABANDHUPARA 141
6 BVNS CHOTOJAMIRA 55
7 BVNS LABRI 60
8 BVNS BRUHAPARA 280
8 BVNS KHASMAI PARA 56
9 ITCT SCHOOLS (9 SCHOOLS) 370
Total: 1492
PATHSHALA
ITCT is running Nimai's Pathshalas in over 130 villages across West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Odisha, Gujrat, Jharkhand & Mizoram. Mid Day Meal is provided in some of our pathshalas. We are also running students hostels, providing scholarship to meritorious tribal students.
SCHOLARSHIP
Meritorious tribal students from economically weaker background are provided scholarships from ITCT’s education projects. We believe that economic condition should never be a burden for a meritorious tribal student for higher students.
MID DAY MEALS
In some of our tribal schools we have introduced mid-day meals, though we want to provide this in all our school but the fund constrain forced us to provide meals in some of our schools, for which we could get donations. Now students gets a nutritious meals during tiffin break.
GURUKUL
ITCT is running gurukuls, where students are provided vedic education beside their school education.
HOSTEL
ITCT is running hostels for the tribal students in Anandabazar, Ajodhya, Jagabandhu Para.