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Years
in
service of
Desh and
Dharma








































Shri Shantaram Annual Report
Bhandarkar Maharaj
April 2017 - March 2018
Initiatives



Contents










1 Our Mentor’s Message






2 Background




3 Financial Highlights




4 India Now Foundation


Vision & Mission

The Journey so far


The year in perspective




5 Nivritti Foundation

Vision & Mission


The Journey so far

The year in perspective


Demand

The way Forward




6 Acknowledgements

Our Mentor’s Message












We are delighted to publish our first
annual report.

Our journey of service started 37
years ago. In 2005 India Now
Foundation gave it formal structure.

In 2016 Nivritti Foundation was
born giving impetus to the mission.

The common binding force for both
trusts is - YOU. Each of you who has
- contributed generously your time
and resources to advance our
purpose in a definitive manner.


Year 2017-18 promoted an
exceptional focus on volunteering
setting a stiff target of 4,250 man-
days (about 12 man years). We are
pleased to see that this was
comfortably achieved reaching a
total 4,500 man-days.


This is nobility in action!

This annual report, a first of its kind,
is to express our gratitude to YOU –
our volunteers, contributors and
patrons.














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BACKGROUND











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India Now Foundation was established
in 2005 with a mission of Creating Noble
Citizens.

The primary focus area has been

enabling nobility among deserving rural
children.

This has been done by:

✓ Delivery of Amazing Empowerment
Workshops;



✓ Providing about 1000 titles of

carefully curated books to libraries
of JNV’s; &



✓ Supporting Nivritti Gurukul.





The Foundation is funded by individual

contributions. Tata Motors became the
first patron from the Corporate world to
support the mission of INF as part of their

CSR projects.

The uniqueness of INF remains in it’s

ZERO indirect admin costs. Every rupee is
spent directly to the progress of the
mission. The contributors participate

both financially as well as offering time in
supporting INF’s cause. Honorary

Trustees and office bearers with no
payments.

It provides the perfect platform for the
yearning of professionals to give back to
the Society.


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Financial Highlights










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The strength and unique selling point of India Now Foundation (INF) has
been the concept of volunteer’s contributing not only money but also their

time so as to keep to minimum the operational costs. Typically for all the
empowerment workshops the volunteers who conduct the workshops bear
the cost of logistics such as travel to the venues and the foundation incurs
the cost of purchasing and delivering the books to the schools. The books
undergo a process of covering and packing to preserve the longevity for
library use, which again is carried out with volunteer support.



The Costs incurred to purchase and deliver books over the past 3 years:



Year No of Books Freight
Donors Purchased Expenses

Amount in Lakhs of Rupees

2015-16 30 24.9 4.5




2016-17 31 28.8 2.2





2017-18 104 60.8 6.8









The success of INF’s activities is reflected in the positive impact it has on
the stakeholders who have come in contact with INF. Our goal is to
maintain and improve upon the following…



Life changing Experience for students and seniors alike

Zero negative feedback including from seasoned principals











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The Facts and figures about Nivritti Foundation in a nutshell:


Year

2016-17 2017-18



No of Students

54 75




No of Donors

53 53+Tata Motors Limited




Cost of Operations (in Lakhs of rupees)
48.8 57.9




The breakdown of cost of operations at Nivritti Gurukul:



University Related 2.2
2.26
IAS Coaching fees 6.14

Study Materials 2.24
1.46
Food and Kitchen related 19.45
9.55
Uniforms, Utilities & Consumables 3.23 4.78

Health Care 0.86
1.01
Transport & fuel expenses 6.54
10.63
Driver, Matron, Security 2.04
6.96
Volunteer accomodation 2.86
3.62
Maintenance (premises, Vehicle) 5.72
4.6
Others 6.58
3.93
0 5 10 15 20 25
2017 -18 2016 -17 (7 Months) Amounts in Lakhs of Rupees



The focus remains on maximum benefit for each Rupee. Cost rationalisation
and cost benefit review is a constant focus.




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Our Vision


























Create Noble

Citizens by

igniting nobility

in individuals








































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Our Mission




• The Amazing Empowerment Workshop (AEW) delivered to children in
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya’s (JNV) is a means to shape minds towards
nobility

• Popular demand has led to extension of the AEW to Principals, Vice
Principals and teachers of JNV’s. We have also covered doctors in Armed
Forces Medical College and cadets at Indian Naval Academy

• The AEW covers:

✓ aspirational goal setting to unleash enormous potential;
✓ interpersonal skills with a focus on nobility and values;
✓ removal of inferiority complex and
✓ a unique visualisation technique.

Cover every JNV once every four years
Cover all Principals once every three years
Cover other military academies once every three years

















• Nobility is the best way to ensure a bright and prosperous future for our
motherland.

• Free delivery of over 1000 curated titles to JNV libraries will ignite
nobility. It will instil pride of being Indian and its culture in students

• These books are chosen from noble publishers such as Bhartiya Vidya
Bhavan, Gandhi center, Amar Chitra Katha. They also include western self
help books by Dale Carnegie, Robin Sharma etc

Send all 1000 titles to every JNV

Continue to add new titles and send to every JNV


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Journey so far


A reflection of our material and physical commitment








Students Principals & Teachers Schools

(covering Municipal
Schools, JNVs and overseas
Indian Schools)


All made possible by our volunteers spread across the Globe – India, Bahrain, UAE,
Oman, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and the United States


































The workshops have been conducted by 100+ volunteers who are well positioned in
their careers.








Professionals & Officers Kilometres covered Books distributed







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The year in perspective



The current year saw increased delivery of empowerment workshops at JNV
schools. Our regular workshop coverage this year was as follows:







Schools







Students








States







Books








The count of volunteers who conducted the JNV workshops this year and
their locations are:


India Singapore Jakarta Muscat USA





16 8 4 1 1






We also conducted 2 workshops at the Navodaya Leadership
Institute (NLI) for about 160 Post Graduate Trainees and
New Teacher recruits.



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Our Vision




























Create and

nurture noble

leaders of

society






































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Our Mission



Nivritti Gurukul is a unique initiative to develop Noble civil servants.

Nobility is built by teaching, demonstrating and practicing.

Teaching nobility: values education sessions every day

Demonstrating nobility: Volunteers come spending their own time and
money to do seva for children. All activities in the Gurukul are done by
volunteers

Practicing nobility: Children themselves are taught to give – see Durbal ki

Seva covered later

Deliver noble civil servants who will do “Desh Seva”



























Economically underprivileged but academically well performing children are
selected from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV’s).

Nivritti Gurukul has been a great experience for both the children and the
volunteers. Children with aspirations but no capacity to pursue higher studies
due to financial and logistical constraints find Nivritti Gurukul as a great

opportunity to reinvent themselves.

The five-year program is designed as a residential distance learning
undergraduate degree program supplemented with training to appear for the
UPSC exams.



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Journey So Far ..since August 2016




Student Profile


Academics Gender Mix Social background



SC
Girls General 20%
Boys Girls 32%
Children with 49% 51% ST
70% + score 13%
in their 12th. OBC
35%


Parent Background

Occupation Annual Income (Rs)




Self
Employed 21%
17% 100 to
Jobless 350,000
7% Farmer
46%
Employee 50 to 13% < 50,000
17% 100,000
66%
Labourer
13%


OPERATIONAL PROFILE



Cost p.a. Volunteer mandays p.a.



is expected The support
cost of our volunteers
operations. provide to the
children at the
Gurukul.





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Journey So Far ..since August 2016




The role and profile of our volunteers:



Residents 4 Mentors 10


1. Shri Yogesh Diwakar (Trustee) Comprises the Think Tank for this
project - people who are very senior
2. Smt Anuradha Diwakar professionals and are passionate
(Trustee) about the cause.

3. Shri Anant Hanamshet: Retired Profiles include:
senior finance professional from
Tata Power and Director on Board ❑ Board level executives in a
of 7 Tata Power subsidiaries major investment Bank;

4. Smt Girija Nilker - retired senior ❑ Board minus one level
teacher from Kendriya Vidyalaya executives in Banking and
other industries.









Onsite Volunteers 100 Offsite Volunteers 50
0

These are volunteers who visit the These are volunteers who commit
Gurukul for offering various services up to 5 days a month to the cause.
free and travel at their own expense Mainly comprise professionals who
People volunteer 1 to 3 weeks through cannot visit the Nivritti Gurukul in
the year and this ensures at least 5 person
visiting volunteers on the ground
through the academic year

PROFILE OF VOLUNTEERS

❑ 30% of these are teachers
❑ 40% are working professionals
❑ 30% are homemakers who have
worked before




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The year in perspective



Unique Innovations


Academics


The academic year 2017-18 saw the addition of 22 children. This took our
total strength to 75.

All new students were enrolled with Mangalore University distance learning
program for BA (History, Economics and Political science)..

It gives us great pride to declare a 100% pass rate for all 53 first year
students of Annamalai University. They will continue in Annamalai

University for their graduation.























































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The year in perspective



Unique Innovations

Partnerships

We live in an interdependent world where forging partnerships with like

minded organisations is a force multiplier.

During the year some new partnerships were created and some strengthened.


Principals



1. Partnership with JNV Principals


The workshops and book distributions were the commencement of a strong

partnership with many noble JNV Principals. These Principals continue to help
in getting the right children to Nivritti Gurukul.

We invited a selection of JNV Principals to Nivritti Gurukul and honoured them
for their contribution.














































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The year in perspective



Unique Innovations


2. Partnership with like minded Sponsors


A major positive development
was the adoption of our
project by Tata Motors as one

of their CSR projects. Living up to their leaders vision

They have agreed to - A QUOTE BY JAMSHEDJI TATA
contribute a fixed amount to THERE IS ONE KIND OF CHARITY COMMON
defray a part of the ENOUGH AMONG US… IT IS THAT PATCHWORK
operational costs for a period PHILANTHROPY WHICH CLOTHES THE RAGGED,
of five years. FEEDS THE POOR, AND HEALS THE SICK. I AM
FAR FROM DECRYING THE NOBLE SPIRIT WHICH
Apart from the financial help, SEEKS TO HELP A POOR OR SUFFERING FELLOW
they are also helping in a very BEING… [HOWEVER] WHAT ADVANCES A
NATION OR A COMMUNITY IS NOT SO MUCH TO
big way by bringing industry PROP UP ITS WEAKEST AND MOST HELPLESS
best practices to our project. MEMBERS, BUT TO LIFT UP THE BEST AND THE
MOST GIFTED, SO AS TO MAKE THEM OF THE
These inputs are helping us to GREATEST SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY.
become more process centric
and positions us well as we
progress to achieve scale.



3. Partnership with Rau’s IAS Study Circle



This year we tied-up with Rau’s
IAS Study Circle for UPSC

coaching.

We are the only institutional
tie up Rau’s.

Their professors come once
every fortnight to take two days
sessions for our children.

A coaching class in progress




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The year in perspective



Unique Innovations



The activities at Nivritti have been planned in such a way that nobility is
not just being preached – emphasis is on noble practices. Some of the
unique innovations at Nivritti are:

Water Conservation



Daily activities are designed
to teach children & volunteers

water conservation.

Half a bucket of water is
enough to bathe and wash
basic clothes.

The volunteers carry back
these lessons for application One bucket of water washes 75 plates.

back home leading to a Buckets are used for bathing – no showers!
multiplier effect.



Communication

Communication in English: Constant

interaction between students /
volunteers with a remarkable
improvement in their communication
skills.



Public speaking: 8 speeches a day
every day by every child – a world
record in speaking skills training.












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The year in perspective



Unique Innovations


Shramdhan


Cleaning the premises and
surroundings every weekend.

The children learn dignity of
labour. They also learn to
become self reliant.







Music


All children are encouraged
to learn to play musical

instruments such as Flute,
Tabla, Harmonium, etc.
Many first timers have

achieved excellent progress.






Durbal Ki Seva An extract from a project report


During vacation, each child was
given INR 2000 in six packets to
give to the poorest in his / her
village. Amazing experiences
recorded in project reports.

Enables them to develop the

habit of giving!








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Demand


A stamp of approval on genuineness of our initiative




Phenomenal demand for the year 2018-19. 1,180 applicants for 35 seats.

A very scientific and rigorous process of selection as outlined here was
carried out. Students will join from 26 August 2018.















1180
Applications
received



Applications sent
for Principal’s 649
recommendations



Feed back
received from 480
Principals


Personal Essays 333
requested


Personal Essays 295
received


Interviews 285


Interaction 155
with Parents


Final Shortlisted 60
students



Students offered Waitlisted
Admission 35 25 Students







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Building on our successes to date we intend to scale up our activities
significantly.


Our children from Nivritti are being trained to do workshops and we

intend to roll out workshops conducted by them in JNV’s near their home
and also in other local government schools. This will be done when they
go on vacations.



Our children are encouraged and they have already started taking up
social impact projects near their village and also near the Gurukul. They
write about their experiences as part of the project submissions. These
projects will make them well rounded leaders of the community.



The current Nivritti Gurukul campus will reach capacity by the year
2020. Work has commenced on a new campus development with a
capacity of 600 children. Ten acres of land has been purchased and all
approvals are in place. Work is expected to commence on the new

campus no sooner rains recede in October 2018.


We are very excited with this new phase of our journey.























2022
600




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The Way Forward







































ACKNOWLEDGEMENT




We appreciate and acknowledge the significant contribution both in terms of material and
time of the volunteers, the support of the Principals and Administrators associated with
the JNVs and the Armed Forces academies, sponsors -Tata Motors Limited for their
invaluable support in the pursuit of creating noble citizens.







































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