What is the use of Social Service or any Social Initiative? What is the basic Ideology behind Paritraan?

Suppose you are stranded in some place and you need someone to give you a lift in their car or taxi and nobody stops their car to give you a lift, how would you feel? 

You are carrying two bags and you have to go to the restroom in a railway station. You can’t leave the bags unattended and you have to go to the restroom, what will you do? You will find some nice elderly person, go to them and keep the bags with them requesting them to take care while you go for five minutes to the restroom. Don’t you need other’s help? If they refuse to help you then how can you survive? You know in this world as human beings we have to help each other and that is what seva is.

In Sanskrit Service is called 'सेवा' [Seva]. Seva means what? ‘सः’[Sa] means ‘him’ which refers to God and ‘एव:’[Eva] means ‘like him’; so 'Seva' means doing things like him.

God does so many things for you but does not expect anything in return from you. Whether you pray to him, thank him or not he will still continue to do. He is not doing you a favor. When you thank God, that is for your own joy, it does not matter to God. In the same way whether people acknowledge your work or not, whether they thank you or not you still do it because you find that it is important to do!

That's the basic ideology behind Paritraan. Its for a noble cause!

The Need for Educational Trips for Students!

Educational trips can enhance learning in many subjects, allowing students time to bond with their peers and have a range of new experiences outside of the classroom.

We learn best when we can see, hear, touch and feel - in other words, when we can experience things at first hand. Multi-sensory learning is an important part of school life, and school trips answer the requirements of all five senses.

It’s because of this that we organized Educational Trip to RIMS – Rajendra Institute of Medical Science, Ranchi. We also plan the next trip to Vigyan Kendra Ranchi. Educational trips take many different forms. When your child visits a museum to find out more about a history topic, walks into the local town to do some geography fieldwork, or goes to an art gallery or theatre, he is taking part in an educational visit.

Whatever the subject, you can be sure that these visits are planned to help your child enrich their learning experience. And the best bit is that they are having fun while they’re learning!



And that is why, we took school children on a trip to RIMS, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences. We were moved by their desire to become doctors. We thought that meeting doctors and visiting a medical college will act as inspiration and motivation. How we did it, and our experience of the trip will be shared in a different post very soon! Keep reading and taking initiatives at your level.

The Need for a change in the Indian Education System.

The current education system does not teach how to become innovators or entrepreneurs or artists. Had it been so, they would have been millions in numbers.

More often than not, the Entrepreneurs, Artists and Innovators are either dropouts or have bad grades. To a few of them, their education may have given the technical know-how (though it is hardly conceivable), but not the dream or the inspiration needed. It is the education which should inspire one to become something one really wants to. Education should make you free, should make you experiment and it should make you ask questions. Ultimately, it should make you realize who you are, what exactly your goal or dream should be and how to achieve it.


There's a need to change the education system from the ground-up that is from the primary level (reduce work load, put more importance on physical activities, encourage original thinking etc).I believe that there should not be any form of evaluation (exam or so) till age 10 years (lets say upto class 4 level).

Subsequently the exam patterns should change and put more emphasis on original thinking, innovative ideas and problem solving rather than emphasizing on mugging up the theory.Basic education should be in mother tongue but English should be made compulsory. The benefit of Education in mother tongue is evident from countries like China and Japan.

We have an obligation to give something back to our country which will have a long term impact on the whole society.These are few of my thoughts. Let’s start a vibrant discussion and let us know your opinion in this matter. I would be glad to have your feedback - appreciation and criticisms both are welcome!

Education: Its importance and condition in INDIA.

Ahhh! Sad, but true, the cruel fact is that all of us are not equally blessed.

But I personally believe that rights and duty always complement each other and come together in a package. If god has endowed us with more riches, he definitely expects us to share it with the less fortunate! And PARITRAAN, is all about it.

When we talk about sharing with someone less fortunate than us and helping him/her, what is better than sharing your knowledge? Just like happiness it is one of those riches which multiplies on sharing. Moreover when we share our knowledge with others we give them a gift of a lifetime. It’s both wealth and investment at once.

Usually when the term education is used people take it to be mere deliverance of degree knowledge and training but ‘Education’ is not limited to it. It encompasses the act of people gathering together to share knowledge, it is a act where people are willing to learn, to teach and to share. And knowledge doesn’t always refer to stuffs that help you get a job! It has a much broader sense, definitely.

Education is really very important in life. Not only it ensures us bread and butter, it gives meaning to our lives in a true sense. It gives us the satisfaction of being able to support ourselves and our dear ones it thus liberates us from the shackles of dependence. It gives us the power to dream and the calibre to make it true.

It enhances the quality of our thought and life. When different people of different kinds mingle together, all benefit. Sharing our views of life with others and knowing about theirs definitely brings us closer to life and to living it.

Apart from quenching our materialistic needs, it gives us a platform to enrich our social life too; and the greatest of all it makes even them capable enough of helping others and the chain goes on!

Thus education enhances the beauty of every bit of our lives; but alas! majority of the Indian population hasn’t ever even known the joy of it.

Our constitution has provided a clause for free primary education for all. The government has set up many schools for primary education, but to what avail? There is no awareness of its importance and most of the population (majority of those residing in villages) are ignorant of the various facilities offered to them. If this is the scenario of primary education, there is no point in speaking about higher education.

I would like to conclude this article by just humbly requesting you to do your share. May be to you it may seem small, but someone will bless you all their lives for giving them a life.

Like they say – “Your kindness makes a difference. Even if it is a very tiny act of goodness and you think no one notices, God notices. Always remember that one little act of kindness can tilt the balance of an entire situation. One little act of kindness can ripple out in countless ways that you many never know about.”

Dream and give them the power to dream too!

You too can contribute and donate to Paritraan!

No we don't ask for your money. By donation we mean something different. We mean your contribution. You can donate your books. You can donate Clothes. You can donate your precious time. And you can go to any nearby school to do that. Wait... you don't even need to do that. Start at your home. May be with your maid's children?

If you have some talent... donate your talent. We mean it! Utilize your talent to help children; to encourage them. Use your God given talents to some noble cause. You know how to play Guitar? Take your Guitar and go to a school. Are you a singer? Think of singing infront of those children. Are you a painter? You can gift them your paintings. In this way, you'll inspire them to do things they thought were impossible for them

There are many reasons for donating. Here is the list of just a few things your donation will do:

1. Make a difference in the lives of students.
2. Help ensure that working and future of the Nation have the resources to learn, grow and give back.
3. Reach out to the world through humanitarian works.
4. Improve the overall standard of society.
5. Honor or thank someone who has made a difference in your life.
6. Leave a lasting legacy of the caring tradition of Family Medicine.
7. Honor your profession with a gift.

Importance of Personality Development and Life Skills in Education.

Together, the phrase Personality Development may mean the various actions initiated for the development of an organised pattern of behaviour, attitude, character, traits, habits, etiquettes and manners that will make a person unique and distinctive.

At Paritraan, we don't just teach them syllabus. We try to come up with innovative methodologies to help students to harness their latent potential and channel their energies towards cultivation and sharpening of multiple dimensions of human competencies.

Education, formal and non-formal, must serve society as an instrument for fostering the creation of good citizens. All approaches to redesign the educational processes must take into account the basic and agreed-upon values and concerns of the international community and of the United Nations system such as human rights, tolerance, and understanding, democracy, responsibility, universality, cultural identity, the search for peace, the preservation of the environment and the sharing of knowledge.

There is no denial that the purpose, the aim and drive of the educational institutes, must be to equip the students with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the students may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world. But a far more important purpose than this is to create the right climate and environment so that the students may develop fully as complete human beings. Total human being means not only a human being with inward understanding, with a capacity to explore, to examine his or her inward state and the capacity of going beyond it, but also someone who is good in what he or she does outwardly.

The cultivation of a global outlook, a love of nature and a concern for fellow human beings and environment should be part of the scheme of education. In order to achieve this, education has to cover the four distinct dimensions of the human personality beginning with the physical body, the development of intellectual and aesthetic sensibilities, the development of socially desirable moral values and finally, the inner dimension of spiritual growth.

While the science labs impart knowledge on the various principles of science, the Personality Development Lab focusses on how to develop some of the traits mentioned above. It should focus on some of the life skills such as:

1. Communication and Public Speaking
2. Various Forms of Arts like Music, Singing, Paiting, Dancing, Poetry, Literature etc.
3. Emotional Intelligence
4. Interpersonal Relationship
5. Norms for Social Behaviour such as manners and etiquette
6. Fitness of the mind and body through yoga and meditation
7. Problem Solving and Thinking Skills
8. Assertiveness
9. Leadership and team working
10. Self empowerment and time management

Why do we need initiatives like Paritraan?

Education is the single best development investment a country can make. It contributes to better health, higher incomes, and increased participation in community life. These social and economic returns have been proven to be particularly high when girls are educated.

The world community has been committed to achieving universal primary education since 1990. Two of the eight Millennium Development Goals-universal primary education and reducing the gender gap at all levels of education-underscore the importance of this issue and the importance of educating girls. UNICEF works tirelessly to ensure that every child – regardless of gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background or circumstances – has access to a quality education. We focus on gender equality and work towards eliminating disparities of all kinds. Our innovative programmes and initiatives target the world’s most disadvantaged children: the excluded, the vulnerable and the invisible.

Too many of the world’s children are out of school or receive spotty, sub-par educations. Each one of these children has dreams that may never be fulfilled, potential that may never be realized. By ensuring that every child has access to quality learning, we lay the foundation for growth, transformation, innovation, opportunity and equality.

Despite a marked increase in primary enrollment rates, especially among girls, more than 100 million children worldwide do not go to school. Adult literacy has also improved. However, some 770 million people, two-thirds of them women, still cannot read or write. Even for those who do attend school, many do not leave with basic skills due to under-resourced education systems and poor quality instruction. Barriers to access and completion are higher for girls, members of ethnic minorities, children living in geographic isolation, working children, children affected by conflict and disasters, children living with disabilities, and the very poor.

That's where Paritraan comes in! We are a team of Engineering students from BIT Mesra (as of now). We have developed a simple strategy - 'Encourage College students to take 2-3 hours/per week to teach poor and under privileged children.' No money no donation purely commitment purely dedication. You can too join us, just by helping children in places nearby you. Nothing more is required.


Unlike 'Teach For India'  or 'Pestalozzi World' or 'India Orphanage Project' we follow a different model. Though they are truly dedicated team, we believe that our model fits best amongst the student community. Even professionals can contribute in a similar way. We encourage you to do whatever you can, wherever you can, whenever you can, howsoever you can!

What is Paritraan all about?

The aim of Paritraan is to reach out to underpriviledged children who are deprived of proper education due to lack of resources. Here, at Paritran, we try to understand their problems and take suitable initiatives for their proper education.


We try to help them understand the value of proper education in their life because we believe that it is the only light which can guide any man through the darkest of times.We ask them about their future plans and tell them what step should they opt in order to achieve those goals of their life. We also encourage them to ask their friends and relatives to tell them the values of education because we believe that education is just like a light for the society which becomes more luminous when more sources are there.

We also take their classes in which we try to incorporate the formal class education along with moral values because we think education should impart the quality of decision making, to distinguish what is good and what is bad, what path to follow. We encourage them to set goals for themselves and dedicate themselves towards the same.

We also emphasize on the personality development of children that includes practicing to speak in english, thinking independently and expressing their ideas in a logical manner in front of others confidently.

Lastly, we keep asking about their personal problems which may hinder their studies and tell them the solutions to those problems to best of our capability.