The number of Parivaar Seva Kurirs (Supplementary Education – morning and evening with breakfast and nutrituonal snacks in both shifts) has crossed 700.
This program covers more than 55 thousand children mostly from tribal communties (many from PVT Groups like Sahariyas, Baigas and Bhariyas) and other groups like Bhils of western Madhya Pradesh, and Gonds and Korkus of central and eastern MP.
The attending children are in the age group of 3 to 14 (educationally from pre-schooling (Anganwadi) to Grade . and venues are all provided free by the communities like Govt schools, community halls or even family homes. Thus one of its signal features is a completely zero-cost infrastructure model.
We had reached the number of 680 Seva Kutirs two years back but went on a consolidation mode. After this hiatus, we have again started setting up new centres in far-flung, highly interior, deeply impoverished hamlets in the Shoolpani Jhadi of Pati tehsil of Barwani district.
This year we hope to set up at least 100 more centres in Barwani, Alirajpur districts in Madhya Pradesh and Gaurilla-Pendra district in Chhatisgarh.
Seva Kutirs is cost-wise the largest vertical of Parivaar, others being 6 residential institutions, 94 24*7 free ambulance service monile clinics covering 572 tribal villages, and Vision Program for the elderly in which some 1500 camps are held every year and lacs of parients served (and a significant number getting free eye surgeries)
In last 3 FYs, we have spent Rs 215 Cr on these programs.
All this work is done by a workforce of 3900 people out of which not even 50 receive a remuneration of more than Rs 20 thousand monthly.