1. BSPES Uttar Pradesh
Maulik Nagri
February 2016

2. Current Update Background
Project Partner since 2014
Girls only school operating in Jattari in Northern Uttar Pradesh (close to NCR region)
School set up by Paliwal family; school management now supported by the family’s second generation
BSPES registered with Indian Government (80G of IT Act and FCRA) and USA (IRS section 501(c)(3))
Current Student Count dropped from 748 to 701
Drop in Secondary School students offset by rise in Primary School Students [P-17 of PP]
Management enforced policy to drop students with low attendance rates [P-2 of PP]
BSPES pro-active about best practices in education
Provides extra-curricular activities and “human values” education”
Seeks actively “higher education” and “employment” opportunities for girl students passing grade 12
BSPES concerned about “lack of English” skills valued in higher education and jobs
Taking pro-active steps:
Set up an English lab
Consider hiring teachers from out of town

3. Proposal School management cited “teacher turnover” as alarming
Hard to find quaified teachers locally
Wage disparity between BSPES versus private and government schools
Current teaching staff though motivated entrenched in legacy teaching practices
Recommend INR 200,000 covering academic year for teacher training and remuneration

4. Financial Statements
In , BSPES is seeing drop in fee income, due to reduction in student count in secondary schools
For , BSPES sees increase in salaries, as because of increase in salary and teacher count
Partly based on Asha for Educations’s recommendations, BSPES changed its auditors and instituted new internal controls in