<i>Setting standards of quality in school education
Establishing model of community owned school
Evolving pedagogy and curriculum for relevant education
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<b>Mission Statement</b>: Uday will over a ten-year period set up three high quality learning-centres and schools in the Sawai Madhopur and Khandar blocks of Sawai Madhopur district. This will help communities see and learn what quality in education actually means. In addition, through a community outreach programme, encourages them to demand better quality of education from the existing governmental school system and the private sector. Uday will also design, develop and implement a curriculum and evolve a pedagogy which makes education more relevant to people's lives in the rural areas and gives them the information necessary to take informed decisions and make informed choices about their livelihoods and their future.

In 1996 after a series of experiences of working together on social and environmental development issues in Sawai Madhopur, a group of people from the villages along with two external development professionals felt that a lot that was wrong in the socio-economic conditions of Sawai Madhopur was the result of poor and irrelevant education that the existing system had on offer. This group decided to make an attempt to change that and together formed the Gramin Shiksha Kendra.

Gramin Shiksha Kendra was set up as a Society under the Rajasthan Societies Act, 1958 and is mandated to work in Rajasthan on issues related to education and development.

Gramin Shiksha Kendra remained on the drawing board for over seven years till the right combination of talent, enthusiasm and preparedness was available to take it forward. It became operational in 2003.

<u>BOARD MEMBERS</u>
1. Mr. Sachin Sachdeva (president): A management graduate from IRMA with 20 years experience in development sector.
2. Mr. Prithiviraj Meena (vice-president): a farmer (and previously the Zilla Pramukh of Sawai Madhopur district) with the urge to learn everything that he had not been able to in school and to lead, like he was destined to.
3. Mr. Vijendra Pal Sisodiya (Secretary): A rare talent from Sawai Madhopur; teacher by profession but also an artist, writer and poet.
4. Krishnavtar Sharma (treasurer) : Krishna is an advocate by training and is from village Khilchipur on the periphery of the National Park. He was one of the initiators of the ecodevelopment project in the area and currently is the Joint Director of Aajeevika Bureau which works with migrant communities in Rajasthan and India
5. Ms. Jyotsna Lall (member): A management graduate from IRMA with 20 years experience in development sector particularly in the field of education.
6. Radhyshyam Sen (member): A driver who realized the meaning of being unemployed straddled the farm and non-farm sector to make ends meet.
7. Kalyan Hiraman (member) : Kalyanji of ‘Devta’ as he is called is a Buffallo herder and farmer from the erstwhile Mordungri village now relocated to Girirajpura. He is the idea behind the organisation and continues to be its conscience keeper.
8. Rampal Gurjar (member) : Rampal Gurjar is a goatherd and a farmer. He is a conscientious parent but is sad that the education system has failed him. He would like all children in the area to be educated and then choose what they want to do with their lives.

As of Dec2021, GSK project has been set to "closed-completed" status as it is deemed self-sustainable.