Remembrance of one's deity
To hold selfless faith in one's chosen deity and to remember them each day.
Girls' education and sanskar
Swami Vivekanand Students' Welfare Charitable Trust
So that education is never stopped by want of money, so that learning is joined with sanskar, and girls move towards their future with confidence.
Let want of money not stand in a girl's future
Nearly three decades ago, financial hardship in western Rajasthan was keeping many girls out of school. Bhaiya Shri Nandkishore Sharda felt strongly that want of money must never be an obstacle to a girl's education or her future, and that education is itself the ground of self-reliance and social progress.
To give that conviction a form, at Jagatjanani Maa's command Sushri Basanti Manihar founded this trust in Jodhpur on 10 June 1996, with Bhaiya Shri Nandkishore as its chairman.
Scholarships based on need and the actual cost
The trust's core purpose was to help financially weak girl students stay in education. Bhaiyaji, Maa Basanti and Madhu Maa saw this not as a social obligation alone, but as a channel of Maa's sadhana and of service to humanity.
Scholarships are given not on the basis of marks, but with an eye to financial need, family circumstance and the school's fees. Selection makes no distinction of caste, religion or community.
The whole of the financial support the trust receives is kept safe as a bank fixed deposit, and the entire interest earned on it is distributed to the girls as scholarships. Administrative costs such as telephone, post, stationery and travel are borne personally by the trust's members, so that the most of the available resources reaches the students.
Grounded in the maxim ‘Sarvajan hitaya, sarvajan sukhaya’ — for the good and the happiness of all — this service treats education as a means to social equality and nation-building.
With education, a sense of direction, faith and giving back
Three simple but deep resolves are given to the girls, so that education does not remain a personal achievement alone but becomes a way of seeing life.
Focus towards the goal
To move towards one's goal with single-minded focus, and to keep patience through struggle.
A share in the yajna of knowledge
On becoming able, to give back to this yajna of knowledge — to become light for someone else in turn.
Towards a confident, well-formed character
Alongside education, the building of sanskar was made an integral part of the trust's method. The aim was that the girls grow in confidence, humility, resilience, a sense of duty, a spirit of selfless service and spiritual awareness.
The girls are made aware of their duties as well as their rights — that everyone has an equal claim on nature's resources, and that nature is owed love and respect. From this positive balance of the mental, physical, intellectual and spiritual, they move forward not merely educated, but well-formed, balanced and responsible.
Read about the Sanskar classesFrom schools to thousands of girls
What began in 1996 with a few girls in need has grown into a wide ground of education, opportunity, confidence and hope.
₹6.14 Cr+Scholarship amount since founding (including the Maa Shardamani Trust)
38 + 7Schools in Jodhpur and Balotra
32Colleges through which higher education is supported
One girl's education, light for the future of many generations
The trust treats education as a means to self-reliance, sanskar, social equality and nation-building. This stream of service has become, for thousands of girls, a ground of confidence and possibility.
Registration & transparency
The trust is registered under sections 12A and 80G of the Income Tax Act. Registration documents, year-wise audited financial reports since the founding year, scholarship certificates and teachers' acknowledgement letters are all publicly available.
See the documents