| About the Satya Bharti School Program |
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The Satya Bharti School Program
The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship rural education initiative of Bharti Foundation aimed at holistic development of children. It is intended at delivering free quality education to underprivileged children across rural pockets and lays special emphasis on education for the girl child and children from marginalized communities. Bharti Foundation envisions 500 Primary and 50 Senior Secondary Schools, reaching out to over 200,000 underprivileged children through free quality education.
One of the largest end-to-end rural education initiatives undertaken by a corporate in India, the Satya Bharti School Program is a pilot being implemented through self learning and by incorporating best practices in the field of education from other organizations and educational institutions.
The program aims to transform education-delivery through three key pillars of intervention:  | Age and class-appropriate learning levels and holistic development of children | | Teachers’ motivation | | Parent and community engagement |
Measures and processes have been instituted around each intervention to ensure effective implementation, quality and sustainability.
As of January 2013, approx 38,000 children are enrolled across 254 Satya Bharti Schools, of which 187 are primary schools, 62 elementary and five senior secondary Satya Bharti Schools in six states of India (Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal).
Goal:
Provide quality education to underprivileged children to develop them into confident, employable and responsible citizens of tomorrow
Objectives: | Provide free quality education to underprivileged children, with a special focus on girl child education, in the rural pockets of India | | Transform students into educated, confident, responsible and self-reliant employable citizens of the country with a deep sense of commitment to their society | | Encourage active involvement of the community, parents and like-minded organizations | | Make a lasting and sustainable impact on the community where schools are present, inciting community education | | Find innovative solutions, through its primary, elementary and senior secondary schools, to create replicable and scalable components in the program to facilitate delivery of quality education |
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| | Models of Implementation |
A multi-pronged implementation strategy has been adopted by Bharti Foundation to reach out to and impact maximum number of children in the rural pockets with ‘quality education’.
Green Field Schools: Of the 254 operational Satya Bharti Schools, 200 primary schools are Greenfield Schools built and run by Bharti Foundation on land either donated or leased-out by the community.
Adopted Government Schools: 49 are adopted government schools in Rajasthan which the Foundation manages and operates.
Public-Private Partnership Model: Five Government Satya Bharti Adarsh Senior Secondary Schools are being run in partnership with the Punjab State Government under the Public-Private Partnership Mode.
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| | Reaching the Less Privileged through Quality Education |
The program seeks to work across rural pockets of India, providing free quality education to millions of underprivileged children. Operating primarily in states with discouraging male-female ratio, the program focuses on maximum enrolment of girl children. Through an inbuilt strategy, the program attempts to overcome the challenges that prevent girl children from coming to school. Specially designed girl-child policy, separate toilet for girls, one female teacher in each shift and special sensitization campaigns have been put in place to encourage parents to send their daughters to school. Today, 49% of the total enrolment at the Satya Bharti Schools are girl students and form a large part of the top achievers in both academics and extra curricular activities.
Contributing to the inclusive growth strategy of the country, the program caters to the marginalized sections with 75% of the students belonging to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Communities and 48% of teachers belonging to the weaker strata of society.
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| | Delivering ‘Quality Education’ in Rural India |
The Satya Bharti School Program has consciously been implemented in rural India which faces ground challenges like lack of quality teachers, poor infrastructure, first generation learners, low learning levels and vast geography. The curriculum has been designed keeping in mind the varying learning levels of children, helping them adapt to child-friendly teaching-learning processes. By setting up schools in such conditions, the program has provided a model with components of quality education that can be replicated on a large scale by other like minded organizations working in the field of education.
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