About ‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’- Parivaar’s own High Quality Formal School at Parivaar Ashram premises.

Parivaar has started its own Formal Day School ‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’ located at the Parivaar Ashram premises from 1st May ’07. It will act as a quality Higher Secondary School for the resident children of Parivaar Ashram as well as for the poorest of poor students from rural areas in Bakhrahat-Amtala-Ganga Raipur area in district 24 Parganas (South), West Bengal. In the first academic session i.e. May ’07 to April ’08, the School is having Classes from Kindergarten to Class 5. In this year only the resident children at Parivaar Ashram are studying in ‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’. In the subsequent 3 years plans are to raise the School to High School level. The objective of the school is to be:

1. A permanent ancillary institution to the Parivaar Ashram Residential Institution for destitute children so that for the years and decades to come the resident children at Parivaar can attend this School and receive quality education.

2. A high quality Higher Secondary School for the poor students from rural areas near Parivaar Ashram who shall receive free quality education till Class 12 level paving way for their growth and movement into Higher college education. There is a large percentage of students in rural areas who after studying till Class 6 or 7 drop out, mainly because of lack of guidance for education in higher classes and consequent repeated failures putting pressure on them to do something other than pursuing education. There is great loss of ‘value’ in this. This School will act as an asset-building institution transforming village students into productive assets for the society though education.

In our own Formal School ‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’ (ABV), the quality and standard maintained is high. In the ABV, Standard Operating Practices are followed with the following features to ensure Quality Control:

• Even though it is meant for Parivaar’s resident children but still our own children have to undergo admission test to get into it for any particular standard (grade). Failing to do so they are kept in the fast-learning bridge Course that prepares them to make the cut for the School and then admitted into the School.

  
  
  

• Teachers who teach at the Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth cannot teach in the tutorship program. This ensures that teachers both in the School as well as tutorship program are kept under challenge to perform and that there is no academic compromise.

  
  
  

• There are monthly Unit Tests, 2 Mid-Yearly examinations, and an Annual Examination. A Question Paper Approval Committee consisting of 4 officials not functional in the School approves the question papers set up by the respective course teachers. They check the content of each question paper for parameters like quality, clarity and course-pervasiveness. The Committee then approves the question paper judging the whole content on the above parameters. It may also issue modifications in certain questions if it helps to strengthen it based on the above parameters. The chief purpose of this exercise is to ensure that no sub-quality question papers are administered during the Examinations and the overall standard is always maintained at a robust level.

  
  
  

• Similarly at the Tutorship Level, monthly internal tests are there. There is no external Approval Exercise for these tests as these tests only act as preparation to the tests/examinations held at Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth and other outside formal schools attended by our children; and it is the performance of the children in these School examinations that acts as the final indicator of the efforts of the teachers both at School level as well as tutorship level.