Education is the only key factor that can bring in social transformation. BJS has worked in
education from three perspectives, contributing with a set of interventions for students’
learning, improving quality and providing intervention programs to educational institutions
and contributing to social cause through these educational institutions. BJS began working
with a strong focus on education initiatives with all these perspectives in the first decade
of 21st century after its core work in disaster response and social initiatives. During and
after disaster response having created a niche in rehabilitating disaster affected children
for their education since 1993 and having established a permanent Wagholi Educational
Rehabilitation Center (WERC), BJS decided to work on School Education for improving
Quality of education. With this idea, Mr. Shantilal Muttha initiated a basket of programme
called EDUQIP (Educational Quality Improvement Programme) addressing the need of different
stakeholders like students, teachers, principals, governing bodies and authorities.
In 2003, Shri. Shantilal Muttha launched a new initiative of BJS - Federation of Jain
Educational Institutions (FJEI) to unite thousands of Jain educational institutions under
one umbrella for collective strength, with the vision to collectively contribute to Nation
Building and with the objective to collectively strive for transforming these charity
institutions to quality institutions.
Based on the experience of long years between 1985-2015 and all education related work done
through BJS and FJEI, having the belief and complete conviction to do a fundamental
contribution to the domain of education and to bring in revolutionary changes in school
education with the objective to transform the school educational system of India, Shri.
Shantilal Muttha founded a not-for-profit organization Shantilal Muttha Foundation
(SMF) in 2015. SMF focuses on up-scaling BJS educational initiatives across the
country especially for integrating them in the government system.
EDUQIP Programmes focused on:
- Assessment of school, teachers, students.
- Enhancing institutional capacity for quality improvement based on diagnostic.
- Empowering key stakeholders like Managements, Principals and Teachers.
- Introducing technology for school operations.
- Integrating value education in schools.
Since 2003, the EDUQIP model got expanded to Pan India being able to reach to more than
4000 government schools:
- 2005 - For 3 years in all government schools in Andaman & Nicobar
- 2007 - For 3 years in all Government schools in Goa
- 2010 - For 1 year in all private aided missionary schools in Goa
- 2007 - For 3 years in all Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti Schools (in every district of
India)
- 2009 - For 3 years in all Government schools in two districts in Gujarat
Since 2003, EDUQIP is implemented at various points in more than 500 Private schools
across India.
By 2009, BJS developed a huge experience in school education domain by reaching to more
than 4000 schools in India. Its research based programs were implemented in large scale
projects for government schools of many states after signing MoUs with the respective
government authorities. BJS experience, competency and programs were tested and enhanced
during the rigorous association with various state governments with their reviews by
government experts and technical committees. Here onwards, BJS focused on two areas as
its core expertise in school education.
- Developing and implementing effective school assessment and accreditation model to
facilitate quality improvement with all stakeholders
- Developing and implementing Value Education model to integrate it with State
syllabus and schooling system.
During 2009-2012, BJS redesigned these programs to address further development in the
school domain such as National Curricular Framework (2005), RTE (2009), National
Curricular Framework for Teacher Education (2009), impact assessment studies of the work
and various global research studies in the field of education. BJS ensured participation
of educationists and academicians of the national and international repute and also
ensured that the ground level experience of managements, schools stakeholders and
government officers is also used in taking its program to next level of effectiveness.
BJS implemented these redesigned programs through large scale pilot projects in
government schools:
BJS School Assessment and Accreditation (BJS SAA) – Since 2012, signing MoU with Madhya
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya government, BJS SAA was implemented in government
schools handing over school level reports, action points and cluster level, district
level and state level reports to government authorities.
Mulyavardhan: a value education program – Since 2009, BJS focused on developing
an acceptable, scalable & replicable by any state & educational institution. With this
initiation, large scale pilot in 450 government schools in Beed district of Maharashtra
state with the permission of Zillah Parishad was initiated. BJS developed this Beed
experimental laboratory for value education and as part of it designed various
activities on Value Education were developed for standard I to standard IV, appointed
local teachers to take up Mulyavardhan activities in the 450 selected government schools
and executed the programme, designed support & monitoring system, carried out impact
assessment studies through scholars of Cambridge University , Oregon University and
NCERT. The Beed experimental laboratory continues to run but with a plan to gradually
scale down the operations as its purpose of setting model to showcase the workable model
on value education has been fulfilled.
Mr. Shantilal Muttha established Shantilal Muttha Foundation (SMF) to specially focus on
large scale implementation of this educational work in government network. BJS continued
to implement educational program for required channels with the support of SMF.
