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UPAY

UPAY (उपाय) or Under Privileged Advancement by Youth is a non-governmental organization which works towards the provision of quality education to the underprivileged children in India. It was founded by Varun Shrivastava, an IIT Kharagpur-graduate and NTPC Ltd Engineer,[1] with the help of his colleagues on 12 May 2010 to make quality education available at the remote villages of India. It was registered as an NGO on 19 September 2011.

UPAY
Formation2010 (2010)
TypeNon-governmental organization
PurposeEducation
HeadquartersNagpur, Maharashtra, India
Location
  • Nagpur, Mouda, Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata
Founder & Chairman
Varun Shrivastava
Volunteers
5000
Websiteupay.org.in

History

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UPAY (Underprivileged Advancement by Youth),[2] was founded on 20 May 2010 by a group of young engineers from IITs and NITs[3] working at NTPC Ltd in a small village called Kumbhari in the outskirts of Nagpur. It has been registered as an NGO under the Society Registration Act, 1860 and Mumbai Public Trust Act, 1950 (Reg No. Maharashtra/268/2011/Bhandara). Its main aim is to provide opportunities to underprivileged children. Since its inception, a large number of educated youth has joined this movement and has been spreading it across the country. Its members include teachers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, students, housewives, retired persons and other working professionals.

Projects

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Reach & Teach

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UPAY was established to provide a SOLUTION to the everlasting problem of rural education. It is working on developing a sustainable process of imparting knowledge to these underprivileged children. Right now, it has 17 centers having 1300 children.[citation needed]

Footpath Shala[4]

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In cities like Nagpur, Pune, Gurgaon and Mumbai people living on the footpath are doing some unskilled labor or literally begging for their bread & butter are some of them. There are people in the society who don’t have any planning for their future, who are struggling against poverty, malnutrition, unhealthiness, family planning.[5] UPAY has taken initiative to replace begging bowls with books for street children in 9 centers with 350 street children enrolled at footpathshala.[6] 20% street children are enrolled in schools. It is an open pathshala, similar to Rabindranath Tagore`s concept of open schools. Classes are being taken by UPAY volunteers at Footpath only.[citation needed]

Sabkasaamaan.com

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Apart from educating the children, UPAY is also working on how to make these underprivileged areas economically independent. UPAY is targeting to tap the local skills and plans to develop small scale industries. Besides seasonal agricultural income, villagers should have perineal source of income and development. For this, a small development is introduction of an online portal,"sabkasaamaan.com". On this the local products developed by the villagers are available for sale. So that apart from the weekly village markets and limited customer base now their produce are getting exposure to a wide network.[citation needed]

Granth on Rath

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GRANTH ON RATH is a mobile library for recycling the old books to the Under-privileged students from affluent students and bridge the rural urban divide.

Books are provided to the under privileged students at a very nominal rent.

Awards and recognition

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LOKMATA SAMAJIK SANSTHA PURASKAR by LOKMATA SUMATITAI SMRUTI PRATISHTHAN, November 2017[7]

References

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  1. ^ "From IIT to teaching slum children – the story of Varun Shrivastava's UPAY". 28 November 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Ek UPAY, a solution". 21 July 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  3. ^ "10 Inspiring Ordinary Indians Who Are Doing Something Extraordinary". Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  4. ^ "UPAY aiming to replace begging bowls with books through footpath shala - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Not the story you want to read on Independence Day - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  6. ^ "A Curious Palm - Social Connect". Social Connect. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Each person should work as a 'trustee' in life: Purohit". thehitavada.com. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  8. ^ "आखिर क्या है वो ‘उपाय’ जो बदल रहा है गरीब बच्चों की जिंदगियां", IndiaMantra.com, 2016-10-12 
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  1. ^ Akanksha Swarnim "Founder Delhi-NCR chapter of UPAY won Young Alumni Achiever's Award by her alma mater IIT Kharagpur", Indian Express, Kharagpur, 16 August 2019. Retrieved on 16 August 2019.
  2. ^ YAAA 2019 "UPAY NGO's Zonal Director wins prestigious YAAA by IIT Kharagpur", The week. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. ^ "UPAY's changemaker gets YAAA 2019 by IIT Kharagpur", Education Times. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  4. ^ "IIT Kharagpur honors Akanksha Swarnim of UPAY NGO", India Today. Retrieved 17 August 2019
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