Vidyanjali is a Ministry of Education (Shiksha Mantralay) initiative that provides students with non-educational practises (through volunteers). This effort would connect students with a diverse group of volunteers from the Indian diaspora (but not limited to) retired teachers, retired government officials, retired professional women, and so on. Apart from allowing mentors to interact directly with institutions and impart relevant knowledge and skill sets, the Vidyanjali platform also allows volunteers/citizens/alumni to contribute services to schools and their management through various categories of contribution, such as ICT, Construction, and school facilities such as furniture and amenities.
Important Features of this Programme
- The Vidyanjali programme aims to ensure that this citizen-government engagement produces concrete benefits.
- To bridge the gap between volunteers and schools by creating an interface.
- Assist school children in gaining exposure to activities other than academics.
- A platform for schools to discuss their volunteer-ship activities, where volunteers can join by executing a variety of tasks.
- A platform for the Ministry to view numerous reports, such as schools that have been onboarded, volunteers, and activities that have been completed, among other things.
- A platform for citizens, volunteers, and alumni to give services to schools and their administration.
- For making it easily accessible a mobile app of Vidyanjali has also been developed that supports both Android and iOS platform.
Activities under this Initiative
This is an indicative list of activities. Activities masters will be managed by Ministry of Education (Shiksha Mantralay) only
- Children’s Reading/Pronunciation
- Assisting Kids with Creative Writing
- Making a Public Presentation
- Acting in a Play
- Collaborating with children to create storey books
- Creating a Model
- Academic and life-skills counselling
- Dance and music
- Swachhta in Schools and Other Places
Procedure for Registration of schools
By following these steps schools can register successfully for this programme:
- The school will use the UDISE code to register (Details of the school would be fetched from the UDISE database).
- On the School registration page, basic information such as the name of the school, the address of the school, the type of school, and the school’s contact information must be filled in.
- After completing the school’s registration information, the school will get communication/notification on the email address and phone number provided.
- The school must complete the form’s details and send the request to the Block resource centre.
- BRC will approve or refuse school registration requests.
- Schools that have been accepted for registration will receive an email with instructions on how to log in to the application.
Process of contribution by a Volunteer/Citizen/Alumni
Volunteers/citizens/alumni who wish to assist the school and its administration should follow the steps below:
- Log in to the portal as a volunteer, public, or alumni member.
- Pick a school to donate to.
- Choose the type of contribution you want to make.
- Fill in the required field
- Fill up and submit the form
Following the submission of the request, the respective school can review it and make a decision. The volunteer would have access to information on the status of his request.
