PYDS Purkal Village, PO Bhagwantpur, Dehra Dun - 248009
9837408215, 9927193913
www.purkal.org
Purkal Village, P.O: Bhagwantpur,
Dehradun - 248009 (Uttarakhand) India
Ph: +91 (0) 135 6452320 Mb:+91 98373 37660
The seeds of PYDS were sown fifteen years ago, when on observing the marginal level of education among the poor rural children of Purkal, G.K. Swamy decided to literally take matters in his own hands. He identified students who showed promise and put in long hours with them after school to help them cope up in their studies. With the help of the Principal of a local school, scholarships were secured for these students to attend an English –medium school in the city of Dehradun; but having started at the school they were soon struggling with the language. The founding teachers worked untiringly with them to improve their language but by the time they were proficient,they were too far behind in their other subjects. In this waya small gesture of free tutoring evolved into the idea of building a school, with the active support of pioneers such as the erstwhile Chairperson Mrs.Praveen Langham, providing free quality education to create opportunities for the children coming from impoverished backgrounds and giving them a level field with respect to their privileged peers.
The school has its humble beginnings in makeshift classes operating out of cow sheds and garages. The community children flocked to join the school but the criteria for taking on new students remained unchanged;they had to want to work and succeed and they had to come from poorest backgrounds.
Purkal Youth development Society registered in 2003 – an NGO situated in the Himalayan foothills is dedicated to enhancing the lives of underprivileged young people in the community.
Unfaltering in their dedication and tenacious in their goals, the Society along with its friends, raised the necessary funds to erect and
establish a custom built school building which was ready to use in 2006and in that year, the teacherstoo became full time. The campus has steadily grown and is now a fully functional school equipped with dining hall computers, science labs, libraries, sports grounds and a yoga hall.
There are many who have helped this transformation and many of these names are recoded in the campus by way of a tree dedicated to their name.
Since 2005 the students under the scholarship programme have used the society’s buses to go to a school in the city and later, many of them to our school. Since March 2011, we have three buses and a winger helping the students and staff commutes.
Our ethos is to nurture children from very poor backgrounds through free quality education, mentorship, day long attention to nutritional
needs, complete healthcare through long years of attention.
While midday nourishment has been available almost since inception; four feeds a day – breakfast, fruit, lunch and evening snacks – is being given since July 2008.
In 2010, we took the first steps in setting up a primary school, went on to a secondary school and then to a senior secondary school to help us implement our idea of holistic development of the child. From just 4 students, the society now has 300 children under its wings. In a landmark achievement the school was granted CBSE affiliation up to Class 10th effective from 1st April2011. The school was granted CBSE affiliation up to Class 12th effective from 01st April 2013.
