About JPSPTU
JPSPTU), was founded as a duly registered society in the year 2004 by a group of eminent, public spirited and service minded persons who were closely associated with the sole aim to provide Value Based, National, Man Making education for poor child education, directly benefitting over 2,000 children and their families every year, through more than welfare projects on education, healthcare, livelihood and women empowerment, in over 200 remote villages and slums across Punjab state of India.
Education is both the means as well as the end to a better life: the means because it empowers an individual to earn his/her livelihood and the end because it increases one's awareness on a range of issues – from healthcare to appropriate social behaviour to understanding one's rights – and in the process help him/her evolve as a better citizen.
Doubtless, education is the most powerful catalyst for social transformation. But child education cannot be done in isolation. A child will go to school only if the family, particularly the mother, is assured of healthcare and empowered.
Moreover, when an elder sibling is relevantly skilled to be employable and begins earning, the journey of empowerment continues beyond the present generation.
About the organisation
Akal Educational Society is a Non- Government Organisation (NGO) founded in 2004 working in the field of child labour, child rights, handicapped children and women development in Punjab districts, India. The Society has been conducting education and Vocational Training programmes for the working children engaged in industries and in other hazardous occupations.
S. Maninderjit Singh Sikka
The Founders
Maninderjit Singh who is currently associated with Akal Educational Society as Chairman. He has gathered over 20 years of working experience in the field of child labour, child rights and women development.
With an academic background of B.A. LLB. coordinated several child labour and child rights projects through different NGOs in Punjab particularly in Jalandhar.
He has organised training programmes for child labourers, school students, youths, women, trade unions, school teachers, panchayat presidents, ward members and NGOs, etc.