| Remember the particular scene from the Hindi movie | | | | The state administration as well as the society needs |
| Munnabhai M.B.B.S (2003), where the Japanese tourist | | | | to design child development programs and work for |
| was demanding to see poor and hungry people, | | | | welfare of poor children. The administration is working |
| whom he would have liked to click on his camera. | | | | towards that goal, but in a country like India with |
| May be that Japanese tourist was not able to locate | | | | over a billion populations, need for social service is |
| them, but for any one coming to or anyone living in | | | | required to a greater extent. |
| India the sight of poor, destitute people is a common | | | | Education is the key for future success. If the |
| sight. Near every religious place, traffic signals, | | | | drop-out rate of students from schools keeps |
| roadside stalls etc. one can see destitute people, | | | | increasing, it would be bad for the future the country. |
| especially poor children, either begging or peddling | | | | So there is urgent need for setting-up more |
| small stuffs. Sometimes one wonders how this is | | | | education societies that would provide free education |
| possible. Isn't the economic prosperity, as reported, | | | | and other facilities like food, clothes, medicine to the |
| percolating down social ladder? Probably our economy | | | | children coming from poor families, so that their |
| is still not married to our society which would have | | | | families don't feel the burden of their education. Along |
| led to the welfare of entire nation and not just of | | | | with education if some vocational training is provided, |
| few people who are benefiting from the economic | | | | these children can have a decent living after their |
| boom. But whatever is the reason or circumstance, a | | | | education is complete or they can simultaneously |
| society needs to come up with solution to alleviate | | | | work if the skills that they will develop as result of |
| the problems of those who are not fortunate | | | | the provided training. Thus school will sound lucrative |
| enough. | | | | option to parents of the poor children to ensure a |
| Have anyone noticed the rising number of poor | | | | good future for their kids. |
| children running about begging, peddling stuffs, | | | | Keeping all these ideas in mind Baba Amar Singh Ji |
| working at construction sites or roadside stalls. Why | | | | founded Guru Nanak Garib Niwaz Education Society in |
| so many children in India meet such fate? Isn't our | | | | 2006 for the children of the poor. Here the children |
| government is working and spending enough on child | | | | coming from poor families are provided free |
| development programs. There are pure economic | | | | education, food, and study kits which include books, |
| factors that decide the fate of the children coming | | | | copy, and pen. They are also provided with free |
| from poor families, especially those who are | | | | medical and transport facilities, and vocational training, |
| below-the -poverty-line. Like the recent inflation is | | | | thus providing the entire infrastructure needed for |
| also forcing the poor parents to take the child out of | | | | child development. The success of the school can be |
| the school and put them to work, so that little more | | | | noticed by the rise in the number of students coming |
| money could be earned to make the both the ends | | | | to enroll themselves. In 2006 there were just a |
| meet. The children of such families are the most | | | | dozen of students registered which have increased |
| deprived because they are not offered any | | | | to over 300. |
| opportunity to choose about what they have to do. | | | | |