Bagar, Rajasthan, India
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Bagar is a town in Jhunjhunu
district, Rajasthan
, state
, India
.
s with fresco
s on the walls that belong to Rungta families who are the great grandson's of Chavo Sati Dadi, many of these families have moved on to bigger cities in India like Calcutta, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
The most famous family to hail from Bagar are the Piramals
, Maheshwaris & Rungtas
The Piramal Haveli that is run by Neemrana Hotels
is also in Bagar.Now days Mr. Rajendra Kanoria is the chairman of NAGARPALIKA BAGAR.
, and the Birla family
todi family lineages. Many of these families have invested heavily in schooling in the region. As such, Bagar, strategically placed between Jhunjhunu city and Chirawa city, is known as a learning hub. It currently houses 32 educational institutions for both local citizens as well as residential students from neighboring towns and cities. However, the proliferation of schools does not always equate to top quality learning; there is great potential for improvement in the standards and content of education in Bagar. The growing willingness by villagers to pay for private education has led to the opportunistic creation of many new schools in recent years. The town is also viewed as transitory: the population fluctuates with the school year
Mr. Ajay G. Piramal established Piramal Foundation (PF) with a vision to build sustainable communities at the grass root level to contribute in living in a sustainable world free from problems like poverty, diseases, unemployment, exclusion etc.
The four core focus areas of the Piramal Foundation are- Health, Education, Youth Empowerment and Preservation of Indian Culture.
As a part of the PF, we have established social enterprises with an aim to find answers to above problems
Health
Piramal Water- Sarvajal- About 40 million people suffer from water borne diseases in India each year, 2/3rd of the patients visiting doctors for common ailments are suffering from water borne diseases. In view of such facts, the idea of Sarvajal was seeded by Piramal Foundation’s experiment in Bagar, the Piramal hometown in Rajasthan. Sarvajal is making safe drinking water accessible to rural population at the ultra low cost of 30 paisa per liter.
Sarvajal, filtered through 5 stages including RO and UV, is provided in the range of 50 to 150 ppm in accordance with IS 10500, the drinking water quality standard. They work through a franchise business format under Sarvajal brand name and have already set up 120 plus such units, creating employment for 250 individuals at least; they are daily serving more than 70,000 individuals.
E-Swasthya: Launched in March 2008, eSwasthya is a social initiative through which affordable and high quality primary healthcare is provided to unserved rural populations. The eSwasthya rural healthcare delivery model has been developed in partnership with Prof. Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School with a vision to “democratize healthcare”. The model is based on franchise format which makes it sustainable and scalable. It utilizes state-of-the-art information technologies to provide quality healthcare access to remote & underserved areas of rural India.
The service is currently operational in 3 districts of Rajasthan. It has 51 centers and about 45,000 patients have benefited from it till now. eSwasthya is now a part of HMRI – another organization supported by the Foundation.
Health & Management Research Institute (HMRI): It is a registered society under the Andhra Pradesh Registration of Societies Act 2000. It is a non-profit organization supported by Piramal Foundation that works towards improved access and quality of healthcare services for all, especially the un- and underserved rural populace.
HMRI runs the following services –
(i)Health Information Helpline: This helpline has 400 seats attending 50,000 calls per day, thereby being the world’s largest health contact center.
(ii)Mobile Health Services: It is a comprehensive, technology-enabled, monthly fixed day health service for the rural poor. It services populations located beyond three kilometers of any public health service provider.
(iii)Telemedicine: This service provides point-of-care, user friendly, cost effective, integrated multi-functional device for rural telemedicine applications with an emphasis on general physician functionality. The service leverages the following technologies to conduct virtual physical examinations: tele-ENT, tele-dermatology, tele-medical and surgical consultation, tele-cardiology, tele-ophthalmology, and rapid diagnosis of diabetes, etc.
Youth Empowerment
Piramal Fellowship: The Piramal Fellowship for Sustainable Business is a two-year program that enables aspiring leaders with an opportunity to explore the power of business to do good, develop the tools to innovate business models, and participate in a community dedicated to the pursuit of social impact.
By working with some of the best social entrepreneurs on their greatest challenges, Piramal Fellows contribute on the frontlines of where business and social aspirations intersect. The fellowship is a total immersion classroom for impact-driven enterprise, supported by a sustainable leadership curriculum and a community of peers
Piramal Prize: It was developed in collaboration with IIM Ahmedabad to appreciate and encourage high impact, sustainable entrepreneurial ideas. The award goes to emerging ventures or established organizations which come up with most impacting and breakthrough ideas.
Source for Change (SFC) is a rural BPO that provides top-quality BPO services to global clients at competitive prices thus empowering rural India with employment opportunities (particularly for women). Located in the town of Bagar in Rajasthan which has very limited job opportunities and especially so for women. SFC aims to break this anomaly by creating opportunities for these women to learn, grow, achieve financial and social freedom, and earn renewed respect from the community.
What began as an innovative rural project initiated in 2007 to use technology for rural development has now evolved into a full-fledged state-of-the-art BPO with a resource capacity of 135 seats out of which 80 people are already employed. The Bagar centre has 24x7 Power Backup supported with generator set and UPS, top-notch data security standards, secure central server equipped with firewalls, networking racks and Cat-6 network cabling, Bio-Metric Access control systems, International standard Fire Safety equipment, and world-class workstations. The centre also has a comprehensive and rigorous training program wherein all associates undergo two modules of training – core training in computer skills, and soft skills training that includes team building, confidence-building, leadership and communication workshops. SFC also implements FMEA processes at various levels for high quality and operational excellence.
Education
Pratham is the largest non governmental organisation working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. They have nationwide programs like balwadis, Read India, ASER etc. Also, they have many other projects like Education for Education, Vocational Skills programme, Computer Aided Literacy etc.
ISKCON Food Relief Foundation : Government of India launched the Mid day meal scheme which was taken up by ISKCON Food Relief Foundation. Currently, IFRF’s school=lunch project reaches nutritious khichdi to over 7 lakh children to feed them and keep them in school. Piramal Foundation has pledged to feed 50,000 additional children every day.
Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership (PFEL)
PFEL is setting up India’s first and the world’s largest Education Leadership training academy.
The academy will offer in-service and pre-service leadership training programs for school heads and education administrators of the government system. School heads (head teachers, head masters or principals) will be trained to turn around their failing schools through a 3 year part time in-service program with a combination of workshops and on-site coaching. Education Leaders (at cluster, block, district and state levels) will be trained to substantially improve the educational outcomes in their geography through a 2 year part-time in-service leadership training program. PFEL has partnered with world class organizations such as Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and Mercer Human Resource Consulting in order to bring together the best curriculum for leadership training. PFEL currently works with 250 Schools in Jhunjhunu and Churu districts of Rajasthan.
Simultaneously, they also run an intense 24-month youth leadership development program that helps talented young people to develop the skills to cause positive, exponential and lasting change in society. During the 2 years, fellows work as ‘Sahyogis’ to 5 school principals each. They bring the problem solving skills, positivity, creativity to grassroot issues such as teacher motivation, community – school relationships and the school leaders own sense of identity and purpose.
Apart from these social enterprises, Piramal Foundation also supports the following:
Preservation of Indian Culture.
Braj Foundation: Piramal Foundation supports the Braj Foundation which works towards preservation, restoration and revival of India’s rich cultural heritage.
bagar is too famous for education as copared to modern era
Jhunjhunu
Jhunjhunu is a town in the state of Rajasthan in India, and the administrative headquarters of Jhunjhunu District. It is located a 180 km from Jaipur and 245 km from Delhi. The town is famous for the frescos on its grand Havelis, a special artistic feature of this region.- Etymology...
district, Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Havelis
Bagar also has many beautiful haveliHaveli
Haveli is the term used for a private mansion in India and Pakistan. The word haveli is derived from the Persian word hawli, meaning "an enclosed place"...
s with fresco
Fresco
Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
s on the walls that belong to Rungta families who are the great grandson's of Chavo Sati Dadi, many of these families have moved on to bigger cities in India like Calcutta, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
The most famous family to hail from Bagar are the Piramals
Piramals
The Piramals are a Mumbai-based business family.The Piramals are originally from Bagar, Rajasthan.Today, the family operates as three distinct business entities. The group came into existence by Gopalkrishna Piramal....
, Maheshwaris & Rungtas
The Piramal Haveli that is run by Neemrana Hotels
Neemrana Hotels
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is also in Bagar.Now days Mr. Rajendra Kanoria is the chairman of NAGARPALIKA BAGAR.
Education hub
The village of Bagar is in the Jhunjunu district of Rajasthan and has a population of approximately 10,000. The Jhunjhunu region is famous for being the ancestral home of many well known Marwari business families, including the Piramals, Lakshmi MittalLakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Narayan Mittal is an Indian steel magnate. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company....
, and the Birla family
Birla family
The Birla family is one of the foremost business houses in India. The fore-father of the Birla family is Shiv Narain Birla, a member of the Marwari community from Pilani, in the westerly state of Rajasthan. He moved to Bombay around 1857 to establish a trading house. His son, Baldeodas Birla moved...
todi family lineages. Many of these families have invested heavily in schooling in the region. As such, Bagar, strategically placed between Jhunjhunu city and Chirawa city, is known as a learning hub. It currently houses 32 educational institutions for both local citizens as well as residential students from neighboring towns and cities. However, the proliferation of schools does not always equate to top quality learning; there is great potential for improvement in the standards and content of education in Bagar. The growing willingness by villagers to pay for private education has led to the opportunistic creation of many new schools in recent years. The town is also viewed as transitory: the population fluctuates with the school year
Projects
Piramal FoundationMr. Ajay G. Piramal established Piramal Foundation (PF) with a vision to build sustainable communities at the grass root level to contribute in living in a sustainable world free from problems like poverty, diseases, unemployment, exclusion etc.
The four core focus areas of the Piramal Foundation are- Health, Education, Youth Empowerment and Preservation of Indian Culture.
As a part of the PF, we have established social enterprises with an aim to find answers to above problems
Health
Piramal Water- Sarvajal- About 40 million people suffer from water borne diseases in India each year, 2/3rd of the patients visiting doctors for common ailments are suffering from water borne diseases. In view of such facts, the idea of Sarvajal was seeded by Piramal Foundation’s experiment in Bagar, the Piramal hometown in Rajasthan. Sarvajal is making safe drinking water accessible to rural population at the ultra low cost of 30 paisa per liter.
Sarvajal, filtered through 5 stages including RO and UV, is provided in the range of 50 to 150 ppm in accordance with IS 10500, the drinking water quality standard. They work through a franchise business format under Sarvajal brand name and have already set up 120 plus such units, creating employment for 250 individuals at least; they are daily serving more than 70,000 individuals.
E-Swasthya: Launched in March 2008, eSwasthya is a social initiative through which affordable and high quality primary healthcare is provided to unserved rural populations. The eSwasthya rural healthcare delivery model has been developed in partnership with Prof. Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School with a vision to “democratize healthcare”. The model is based on franchise format which makes it sustainable and scalable. It utilizes state-of-the-art information technologies to provide quality healthcare access to remote & underserved areas of rural India.
The service is currently operational in 3 districts of Rajasthan. It has 51 centers and about 45,000 patients have benefited from it till now. eSwasthya is now a part of HMRI – another organization supported by the Foundation.
Health & Management Research Institute (HMRI): It is a registered society under the Andhra Pradesh Registration of Societies Act 2000. It is a non-profit organization supported by Piramal Foundation that works towards improved access and quality of healthcare services for all, especially the un- and underserved rural populace.
HMRI runs the following services –
(i)Health Information Helpline: This helpline has 400 seats attending 50,000 calls per day, thereby being the world’s largest health contact center.
(ii)Mobile Health Services: It is a comprehensive, technology-enabled, monthly fixed day health service for the rural poor. It services populations located beyond three kilometers of any public health service provider.
(iii)Telemedicine: This service provides point-of-care, user friendly, cost effective, integrated multi-functional device for rural telemedicine applications with an emphasis on general physician functionality. The service leverages the following technologies to conduct virtual physical examinations: tele-ENT, tele-dermatology, tele-medical and surgical consultation, tele-cardiology, tele-ophthalmology, and rapid diagnosis of diabetes, etc.
Youth Empowerment
Piramal Fellowship: The Piramal Fellowship for Sustainable Business is a two-year program that enables aspiring leaders with an opportunity to explore the power of business to do good, develop the tools to innovate business models, and participate in a community dedicated to the pursuit of social impact.
By working with some of the best social entrepreneurs on their greatest challenges, Piramal Fellows contribute on the frontlines of where business and social aspirations intersect. The fellowship is a total immersion classroom for impact-driven enterprise, supported by a sustainable leadership curriculum and a community of peers
Piramal Prize: It was developed in collaboration with IIM Ahmedabad to appreciate and encourage high impact, sustainable entrepreneurial ideas. The award goes to emerging ventures or established organizations which come up with most impacting and breakthrough ideas.
Source for Change (SFC) is a rural BPO that provides top-quality BPO services to global clients at competitive prices thus empowering rural India with employment opportunities (particularly for women). Located in the town of Bagar in Rajasthan which has very limited job opportunities and especially so for women. SFC aims to break this anomaly by creating opportunities for these women to learn, grow, achieve financial and social freedom, and earn renewed respect from the community.
What began as an innovative rural project initiated in 2007 to use technology for rural development has now evolved into a full-fledged state-of-the-art BPO with a resource capacity of 135 seats out of which 80 people are already employed. The Bagar centre has 24x7 Power Backup supported with generator set and UPS, top-notch data security standards, secure central server equipped with firewalls, networking racks and Cat-6 network cabling, Bio-Metric Access control systems, International standard Fire Safety equipment, and world-class workstations. The centre also has a comprehensive and rigorous training program wherein all associates undergo two modules of training – core training in computer skills, and soft skills training that includes team building, confidence-building, leadership and communication workshops. SFC also implements FMEA processes at various levels for high quality and operational excellence.
Education
Pratham is the largest non governmental organisation working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. They have nationwide programs like balwadis, Read India, ASER etc. Also, they have many other projects like Education for Education, Vocational Skills programme, Computer Aided Literacy etc.
ISKCON Food Relief Foundation : Government of India launched the Mid day meal scheme which was taken up by ISKCON Food Relief Foundation. Currently, IFRF’s school=lunch project reaches nutritious khichdi to over 7 lakh children to feed them and keep them in school. Piramal Foundation has pledged to feed 50,000 additional children every day.
Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership (PFEL)
PFEL is setting up India’s first and the world’s largest Education Leadership training academy.
The academy will offer in-service and pre-service leadership training programs for school heads and education administrators of the government system. School heads (head teachers, head masters or principals) will be trained to turn around their failing schools through a 3 year part time in-service program with a combination of workshops and on-site coaching. Education Leaders (at cluster, block, district and state levels) will be trained to substantially improve the educational outcomes in their geography through a 2 year part-time in-service leadership training program. PFEL has partnered with world class organizations such as Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and Mercer Human Resource Consulting in order to bring together the best curriculum for leadership training. PFEL currently works with 250 Schools in Jhunjhunu and Churu districts of Rajasthan.
Simultaneously, they also run an intense 24-month youth leadership development program that helps talented young people to develop the skills to cause positive, exponential and lasting change in society. During the 2 years, fellows work as ‘Sahyogis’ to 5 school principals each. They bring the problem solving skills, positivity, creativity to grassroot issues such as teacher motivation, community – school relationships and the school leaders own sense of identity and purpose.
Apart from these social enterprises, Piramal Foundation also supports the following:
Preservation of Indian Culture.
Braj Foundation: Piramal Foundation supports the Braj Foundation which works towards preservation, restoration and revival of India’s rich cultural heritage.
Geography
Bagar is located at 28.18°N 75.50°E. It has an average elevation of 315 m (1,033.5 ft).bagar is too famous for education as copared to modern era
See also
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- Piramal water
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