Asha for Education

The institute has a staff of 48 (teaching and non-teaching staff). The staff:student ratio is about 1:2 but the teacher:student ratio is to about 1:4. High number of teaching & non-teaching staff is necessary as lot of students need one-on-one attention. Also, many children have physical disabilities which makes it necessary for the institute to have more non-teaching staff (helpers) who take care of every detailed need of the child while the child is at the institute.

As such SSS has a high recurring expenditure of staff salaries and addressing that is a matter of great concern for the institute. Staff retention is an area of great concern for the institute as similar institutes run by government pay much higher salaries (6th pay commission structure) than what the institute is able to pay its employees. As a result SSS requests Asha for Education in their proposal and budget to address expenditure line item of Staff Salary (for 2014-15 this is budgeted at Rs. 4,100,896)


This project is a likely candidate for Asha for Education's Support-A-Child program in the future.

Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha (SSS) is a research institute dedicated to the development and rehabilitation of the mentally disabled children. The uniqueness of this institute is that they are committed to help "differently-abled" children and their families, which means that they provide individual attention depending on the specific circumstances of the child.

Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha was started in 1993 in Nagpur, Maharashtra and has been dedicated in providing such service to about 100 children today. The institute now has its own school building at its campus "Sandnya Srushti" in the neighboring satellite township of Butibori, 25 kms from Nagpur and uses 3 of its own school buses(one of which was funded by Asha for Education) to ferry the children back and forth from their homes in Nagpur.

Currently, Asha Athens, Asha Portland and Asha NYC/NJ support this project. Sharda Sheshabhattar is the NYC/NJ steward of this project.

The project proposal was initially submitted to Asha-Delaware in 2003 and was finally taken up by Asha-Athens after being reviewed in the year, 2005