The Amarpurkashi Project in India
the project provides secondary education for 800 students and encourages girls to attend
the degree college is accessible to rural students and has over 1300 students on roll
the project supports a number of health initiatives
Overview of the Amarpurkashi Project in India
The Amarpurkashi Project is a programme of an Indian non-governmental organisation (NGO) registered under the UP Societies Registration Act as the "Society for Agro-Industrial Education in India".
It is located on the outskirts of Amarpurkashi, a village in Moradabad district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India. It serves the neighbouring villages. Some of its programmes cover the whole district.
The project was started in 1970 by Mukat Singh, the General Secretary of the society, who was born in the village.
The project has been running successfully for over 39 years and facilitates many activities including:
A Primary School with over 200 pupils.
An inter-college for older pupils: part-funded by the government but run by the project, this school has over 800 pupils and serves many villages in the area.
Gramodaya Degree College Founded in 1995, the college is affiliated to a local university and has over 1300 students on roll. The college also has a record of achieving higher than average results.
In co-operation with the government eye hospital and medical and dental colleges in Moradabad, the APK project runs free eye camps and health camps which treat hundreds of poor villagers suffering from cataracts and other eye complaints.
Other health initiatives include a health centre, the HIV/AIDS Link Workers’ Scheme, the Campaign against Female Foeticide and the Campaign to register births and deaths
Other areas of involvement include health promotion, research into improved farming methods, action research into primary education and into pollution, and networking with other Indian NGOs.
The project provides employment for over 140 local people.
Progress reports
For full details of the latest progress, see the progress report for 2008-9.
For previous reports and general background see the history of the project.
Support rural development in India
If you wish to support the work of the project, you can do so either directly or though VRI, the project's partner charity in the UK.