Vidhayak Sansad

Despite a constitutional and legal framework for universal basic education, quality schooling for rural youth from disadvantaged backgrounds remains elusive for many in rural India. Vidhayak Sansad takes a multi-pronged approach to reducing social, economic, and cultural barriers to quality education by running schools for migrant and tribal children, working with government institutions to improve the quality of education, promoting indigenous leader development, running youth study and play groups to promote learning outside the classroom, advocating against seasonal migration, and tackling malnutrition.

With EMpower’s fifth grant, Vidhayak Sansad is focused on removing social, geographic and economic barriers preventing disadvantaged children and adolescents from entering the educational system, and on further developing community structures to hold the government-run educational system accountable and thereby improve educational quality.