Kailadevi Senior Secondary School

Education Based Responsible Tourism At Bhanwar Vilas Palace

Maharaja Krishna Chandra Pal of Karauli, the current head of the Karauli dynasty remains as invested in the local culture and philanthropic works as his ancestors. At present he is serving two religious temple trusts where he has employed five hundred people, through which he is running mobile hospitals, the Kailadevi schools, a hundred bed hospital and also hosts medical and surgical camps. He also runs the Maharaja Ganesh Pal Ji Charitable Trust, named after his grandfather, which is working towards water conservation projects with the help of a Dutch foundation called StichtingKarauli.

The Kailadevi Senior Secondary School provides high quality education at par with cities, and excellent infrastructure to children from remote villages around Karauli and Kailadevi town.

The school currently has 900 students, predominantly girls, as well as residential facilities for girls to encourage parents from even conservative families to educate their daughters.

Besides a superb academic standard (students show a 100% pass rate and 98% first divisions) there is a great focus on sports an extra-curricular activities.

The basketball team and kabaddi team can participate in friendly matches with visitors.

Kailadevi Sanskrit Academy

This is recent undertaking established to provide rigorous training in Sanskrit and Vedic praxis to children in the area and to preserve these ancient arts. The school is mostly residential,

Kailadevi Hospital

The Kailadevi Hospital is a hundred-bed hospital near the Kailadevi School which runs regular medical camps such as eye camps, surgical camps with well-known medical practitioners visiting to provide high quality medical assistance to people in this comparatively remote area.

Ekat Bodh Gram

We also support a school for children with hearing and speech disabilities which is now considered the best in Rajasthan

EKAT Bodh Gram is one of only three schools in the state of Rajasthan with specialized facilities for the education and care of children with hearing and speech impairments and the only one within a radius of 200 km. Despite its rural location, the school receives students from neighbouring cities such as Bharatpur, Alwar, as it is the only school in the state which provides education up to the 12th grade. Currently, the school has 150 students, all of whom reside within the premises.Maharaja Krishna Chandra Pal developed much of the infrastructure of the school starting with equipment to test hearing, state-of the art hearing aids, and going on to a girl’s hostel and classroom complex which has allowed the school to become completely residential and exponentially increased the number of students from 70 to 240 children as of now.

It is now the only such school in Rajasthan which provides education up to the 12th standard and has students from every corner of Rajasthan. The Maharaja also built an activity and carpentry workshop which allows students to enjoy extra-curricular activities, as well as receive vocational training. The students now make their own furniture and uniforms.

The students are all from extremely economically underprivileged families, and the government funding per child covers only uniforms and a portion of the food costs so the school takes complete responsibility for remaining expenses including the remainder of the meal costs, administrative salaries, infrastructural maintenance, textbooks, tuition fees and special equipment.

In 2018, students from Rutgers University installed a solar suitcase (portable solar panel) to provide electrical back-up to the residential facilities and to the machines in the speech therapy room.

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Education Based Responsible Tourism At Bhanwar Vilas Palace