Isha Vidhya

Isha Vidhya
Founded 2006
Founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Type Charitable trust
Focus Rural education
Location
Area served
India
Method Rural schools
Key people
 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Ravi Venkatesh, D.R. Karthikeyan, Deepak Satwalekar, Prahlad Kakkar
Website www.ishavidhya.org

Isha Vidhya is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.It aims to raise the level of education and literacy in rural India.[1][2]

History

Isha Vidhya was formed in 2006, and its first Matriculation school was established on June 19, 2006 at Santhegounden Palayam, Coimbatore district.[2] Subsequently, three more schools have been established in Tuticorin, Erode and Nagercoil in 2007.[3] Several more schools have also been established through the years.

In 2015, the foundation extended its Government School Adoption Program to fifty schools instead of forty to reach more students.[4]

In 2017, Isha Vidhya signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Education in Andhra Pradesh to enhance the quality of education by extending its programme to 3000 government schools in Chittoor.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Isha Vidhya's Vision statement".
  2. 1 2 Isha Foundation to open 206 schools, The Hindu, April 09, 2006, Retrieved on 30 September 2011
  3. ↑ Isha Vidhya to start schools, The Hindu, 29 March 2007, Retrieved on 30 September 2011
  4. ↑ "Government School Intervention Program: Isha Vidhya". Clinton Foundation. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  5. ↑ "Isha Vidhya to extend support to 3,000 govt. schools in Chittoor". The Hindu. Special Correspondent, Special Correspondent. 2017-03-04. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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