ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13

UPAY
Underprivilegeds Advancement by
Youth

..An initiative to

bring

smile on poor & dejected faces

Donate. Educate. Liberate

Contents
Table of Contents
About UPAY ..........................3
From the Presidents desk.....4
How we work........................5
Programs & Activities ...........7
Financials & Fund raising .... 14
Income & Expenditure
statement .......................... 15
Fund raising ....................... 16
Accountability &
organizational structure...... 16
Testimonials ....................... 17

About UPAY
HOW WE STARTED
Back in May 2010, a bunch of socially motivated Engineers made an attempt for creating sustained
impact by educating the underprivileged children of rural villages. This passion led to the formation
of UPAY (Under Privileged Advancement by Youth) which serves as a platform for the like-minded
individuals to help the needful. On 20th May 2010, UPAY has started its first center in a small village
Kumbhari with the help of three members: Varun Shrivastava, Harshit Gupta & Sitesh Barche.
Initially there were only 15 children and 3 members in UPAY. On 19th Sept 2011, UPAY got
registered
under
The
Societies
Registration
Act,
1860
(Registration
No:
MAHARASHTRA/268/2011/BHANDARA) & Mumbai Public Trusts Act, 1950(Registration No: F14212). At present UPAY is running at 4 different centers across the country and more than 200
children are being facilitated by us.

THE VISION
To help in the development of poor & Underprivileged Section of society in all aspects of life so that
they can grow & match on par with the outside world.

THE CORE VALUES : (SOLUTION)

Social Welfare
Opportunity to All
Literacy Enhancement
Under Privileged Advancement
Teach & Reach India
Inspiring Youth
Orientation for Moral & Social values
Nurturing the rural talent
THE MISSION 2013-14

To ensure multi-dimensional development of children enrolled at existing UPAY centers.

To spread the organization & starting at least one center every year.

Job oriented training to the women folks of the underprivileged section of society.

From The Founders Heart

Dear Members,

It gives me immense pleasure and satisfaction when I see the journey of UPAY, blossoming
from a newly born baby to a fully grown NGO. In May 2010, we have laid the foundation of this
beautiful group by starting a teaching centre for the under privileged children of Kumbhari Village.
That time we have not imagined that in a short span of 3 years UPAY will achieve so much of success.
UPAY has gone through many ups and downs and every time it has come back stronger. In the
beginning we were worried about its survival but it was the sheer hard work and dedication of all of
us which brought UPAY at new heights. The success of any group is the direct result of hard work
done by its team and I am thankful to GOD for blessing us with such a wonderful team to work with.
To start a good cause is a tough task but to keep it afloat is nothing less than an achievement.
Year 2012-13 has been one of the best and eventful years in UPAY history. One of the biggest
achievements is the results of 10th Board examination. The awesome performance by students will
keep our moral high and in future we will try to surpass our previous records. The highlights of the
year have been UPAY T-shirt Printing and a wonderful cultural program organized on the occasion of
Diwali & Having Mouda Tahseel Dar as Chief Guest. I appreciate the Commitment shown by the New
Volunteers who have joined UPAY in 2012. They have brought the fresh ideas in our group & more
importantly gave the much needed drive in right direction.
When we see a small kid begging at railway station or traffic signal, eating a leftover food with
no hope left in life. This makes us to think about them and we want to do something, yet we never get
time or opportunity .We can do a little more than that. In some sense, we are under an obligation to
try for change, because we can bring the change as we are the part of privileged few. UPAY gives us
an idea, an opportunity and a platform where we can be the part of an effort to give the better life to
the underprivileged section of society. If we are able to change the lives of few and can be the cause
of little smile even on the few dejected faces, our purpose of life will be completed. Whether we will
be here or not, UPAY will continue to blossom and will keep on bringing the radical changes in lives of
poor and dejected people.
With this hope, I congratulate all of you from bottom of my heart and all the best for future, with the
hope that you will take UPAY at the zenith of success.
With gratitude,

Founder -UPAY

How we Work!
The Current Schemes
1. Primary group: Our main focus is to develop this group. Children up to standard 5 belong to
this group. They are like newly planted trees, you can mold them in any direction. They are
the ones who are the future of next generation. The most remarkable and observable thing
about them is their enthusiasm. Some of them can barely speak but they bring their slates
and participate as much actively as they can. We use charts and pictures to teach this group.
2. Middle & Higher group: Children from 6th class to 12th participate in this group. Most of the
children do not know the basic concepts of addition and subtraction, so we have divided
them in groups based on their intellectual level. Few polytechnic college students are also
being taught by us.
3. Coaching for Navodaya examination: This scheme was introduced because of three major
reasons. Firstly, despite our sincere commitment, we realize that we cannot be a substitute
to regular quality school education which can provide all wherewithal and resources to
students. Therefore sending students to good schools is a better option. Secondly, Navodaya
provides free of cost education to villagers. Thus, it is a quality resource for poor and needy
people. Thirdly, through Navodaya scheme we are able to teach brighter students separately.
Teaching both bright and less active students together earlier slowed the learning process of
the brighter ones. We have 7 students competing for entrance in 6th standard and 3 students
for 9th standard Navodaya examination.

Challenges we face
1. Language problem:
We are having 3 centers in Maharashtra, 2 in utter Pradesh. In the Rural &
remote villages Children (Age 3-10) hardly understand any other language
other than local regional languages. In this matter, villagers have helped us a
lot in translating & teaching us their local language. Now even children have
started understanding our language through our actions.
2. Lack of awareness & willingness:
In remote places despite so many efforts from government there is a lack of
awareness regarding education. Poor people prefer to send their children for
work in very early age so that they can earn for their family. To bring those kids
in UPAY center & convince them for study is a very difficult task.
3. Rains & hot summers:

The rainy seasons are usually good and more so in the evenings during that
season. However, incessant rains have not deterred us. And we take
immense pride to say that we have not called a single scheduled class off
because of any reasons. Our members have come back from the class
sometimes totally wet but never did anyone complaint about it.
4. Lack of Resources:
No matter how much we try, this is a constraint that we cannot ignore.
Time & financial constraints always slow down our progress.

OUR TEAM!
Executive Body:
President

Mr. Varun Shrivastava

Vice-President

Mr. Sitesh Barche

General Secretary

Mr.Bhaskar Maheshwari

Joint Secretary

Mr. Wasim Ahmad

Treasurer

Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan

Co Treasurer

Mr. Sunil Kumar

Secretary (Operations)

Mr. Vinay Chowdhary

Secretary (Public Relations)

Ms. Sakshi Jain

Centre coordinator
(Kumbhari)
Centre coordinator (Rahadi)

Mr. Ankit Shrimankar

Centre coordinator (Rihand

Nagar & Shakti Nagar)
Member

Mr. Jitendra Paliwal

Mr. Rohin Bhan

Mr. Smruti Ranjan

Our Volunteers:
At present around 100 members are associated with UPAY at different centres. All of our
Volunteers are working professionals and they go to our centre after their office hours.

Programs & Activities

UPAY organized and carried out a lot of activities in this financial year for students at Kumbhari &
Rahadi. Student participation in all the activities and the confidence gain after a year is appreciable.
Some of the activities are listed below.

New Centre Opening

New centre of UPAY started at Rahadi village on
08.05.2012. The center started with 40 students
and brought joy and learning to them. At present
65 children are enrolled in UPAY centre. One
teacher has been hired to assist our volunteers.
A committee of villagers was formed to take care
of other requirements. One student secured 87.6
% in board examination, which is the highest
percentage secured by any UPAY student.

Independence Day Celebration

Sports competition Kabaddi, Kho-kho & Spoon races
were organized on the evening of Independence
day at our Kumbhari center .Students of Rahadi &
Kumbhari gave a dance performance at NTPCMouda as a part of the Independence Day
celebrations. We saw the children in a very good
spirit.

Stationery Distribution

UPAY is not only providing teaching assistance but

also providing financial assistance to the poor
children .Stationery distributed at Kumbhari with
the help of Samrudhi ladies club.

Diwali Celebrations
Like every year this year also UPAY has celebrated
diwali with village children. A grand function was
organized. Fancy dress fashion shows were done by
small children. A number of dance performances
were also given as a part of Diwali celebrations.
They were just so cute. Tahseeldar (Mouda) and
General Manager (NTPC) have attended the
function to boost the morale of children
Rangoli and Greeting card competitions were held.
Students participated actively and the judges were
amazed by their rangolis & greetings. The best
drawings are used in NTPC employee birthday
greeting cards since then.

Health Camps
Various health camps have been organized in the
village of Kumbhari & Rahadi with the help of Dr.
Anju singh & Dr. Ajay Singh. Nearly 300 people have
benefitted from this initiative. Free medicines were
distributed to the villagers.

Safety Camps

Being near an upcoming NTPC Projects, the labor

colonies have always been on our watch. Safety &
Hygiene camps have been organized in the nearby
labor colonies to educate the labor.

Fundraising for Accidents

UPAY has been actively involved in helping victims of
unfortunate accidents. We raised and donated Rs 10000
to help a labour who met with an accident while working
at NTPC.
UPAY also distributed 100 Kg rice, 15 Kg salt, 15 pairs of
foot slippers & hundreds of old clothes to the victims of
labour colony fire near NTPC.

Tree Plantation
To spread the awareness about environment
protection, on 5th June 2013 UPAY has done tree
plantation with the help of villagers & children in
Rahadi & Kumbhari village.

A 7 day long Art of living session was organized by

UPAY in association with Mrs. C. Padnuja, a
trained Art of living facilitator, to teach our
students the importance of Yoga & discipline in
their life.

For Fund raising, UPAY has printed T-shirts & calendars.

Huge response shown and we have sold more than 150
T-shirts, birth day card, new year cards and calendars,
Fund raised by this has been used for fulfilling various
requirement of UPAY centers

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Food Distribution
for the flood
affected people

On 25th August 2013 there

was a flood in Kanhan
River,
near
Mouda.
Around 1000
People
specially from the river
side area got affected.
People who were living on
river bank they have lost
everything, their huts
have been washed away
by flood.
District administration has
started 4 shelter centers
in Mouda & Mathni
Village . UPAY has
provided 1 day lunch to
the
affected
people.
Because of Flood drinking
water supply got affected
in Mouda Town. With the
help of IVRCL Ltd UPAY
has arranged 9000 Ltr
water tank for 2 days.
For this cause NTPC
Mouda Employees have
extended their support by
providing the monetary
support to UPAY.

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Inter-Centre
Sports Meet at
Kumbhari

On 15th August 2013

UPAY has organized a
inter center sports meet .
Various competition (
Kabbadi, Langdi, KhoKho)
were
conducted
between
Kumbhari
&
Rahadi Village children. Sh
P
Bhattacharya,
AGM(EED),
Sh
B.
Sahu(AGM,EED) and Dr.
Ranjeeta Sahu have graced
the occasion with their
presence

Rotary Club Mihan

Nagpur Visits UPAY
centre
Dr. M.K. Tiwari (President,
Rotary club, Mihan,
Nagpur) visited our
Kumbhari Centre. Dr.
Tiwari Was Retired Senior
Scientist from ISRO. His
interaction with UPAY
children was very moral
boosting .They have
donated 10 K Rs to UPAY
for setting up a library .

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Trip to Science Museum

A trip to the C.V.Raman National Science
museum, Trip was organized for students of
Kumbhari. It was a great learning experience for
the students as they had never visited such
museum before.

World Environment Day

Drawing competition was held on environment day
in Kumbhari & Rahadi villages. Some are very good
paintings were made by these childrens.

Villagers Meet

To spread the awareness in villagers about

education, we have organized many villagers
meet. After this interaction villagers started
sending their children in UPAY centers.

UPAY Notebooks distribution

UPAY has Distributed 500 note books to the poor
children of Kumbhari & Rahadi village .We have
printed UPAY printed notebooks to spread the
awareness about education in the villages.

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Financials & Fundraising

UPAY T-SHIRTS

UPAY CALANDERS

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Income & Expenditure statement

Statement of income
Memberships
Donation
Interest
Cash

23503
118212
1595
11000

Total Income

1,54,310

Statement of Expenditure

Salary to Teachers
Stationery Distribution
During Various activities
Donations for accidents
Miscellaneous
Other Cash expenses

50500
3101
5248
10400
1616
13176

Total Expenditure

84,041

Summary for FY 2012-13

Balance From Fy 11-12

Income
Expenditure
Balance as on 31/03/2013

15,636
1,54,310
84,041
85,905

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Fund Raising
During 2012-13 UPAY raised Rs. 1,18,212 through donations. UPAY would like to recognize some
significant people who contributed towards UPAYs work.
UPAY received notable contributions of over INR 5000 from each of the following donors and
organizations:

Sh V. Gopal Rao
SAMRUDDHI LADIES CLUB
Rotory Club,Mihan Town Nagpur
Sh V. Thangapandian
Sh B. Basu
Sh Rajeev Agarwal
Sh M.C.Gupta
Sh Pinaki Bhattacharya
Sh ASR Prasad
Sh V M choudhary
Sh Prashant Bhangale
Sh Smruti Ranjan Samual
Sh B .Sahu

Accountability

Accountability Measures:
This information is provided to maintain a transparent organization in compliance with laws
and regulations in addition to standard accountability norms, and to give the reader an
understanding of our organizational structure and functioning.

Identity:
UPAY is registered under the Mumbai Public Trusts Act, 1950 (Reg No: F-14212) &
Societies Registration Act, 1860(Reg No: MAHARASHTRA/268/2011/BHANDARA)

Registered Address:
Office Address- 571, Hiwari Layout , Viashno Devi Square, Wardhman Nagar, Nagpur, 440008

UPAY Bank Account details:

Bank Name - SBI Maudha
A/C No.- 31985816052
Branch Code- 04813, IFS Code- SBIN0004813

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Testimonials

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Times of India: 21.07.2013

Dainik bhaskar: 09.07.2013

Nav Bharat Times : 30/03/2012

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Times of India, Nagpur:30/03/2012

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Appreciation letter

Running Projects
BRIDGE (BRidging the InDian gap by E-way )
Starting a centralized E-learning center in which video
tutorials and interactive sessions will be conducted at each
UPAY center by using internet, projector and computers.
This will provide the rural students an opportunity to
access the quality education and experts tutorial, and for
us it will reduce the No of volunteers required at each
center and will bridge the gap between urban & poor
children
Books Recycling to needy(GYAN PRABAH):

Our Partners
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Rotory club , Mihan Nagpur

Farms & Farmers , Patna
Vanvasi Kalyani Ashram
Smruddhi Ladies Club ,Mouda
NTPC Mouda

Upcoming Centers
1. Budhwari, Nagpur
2. Mouda Town

Collecting old books from schools and college pass out students
and distribute to the needy students
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Wipe a tear, fulfil a dream. Help us educate the children of

India

Visit us on www.upay.org.in
Mail us on info@upay.org.in
Office Address- 571, Hiwari Layout, Vaishno Devi Square, Wardhman Nagar, Nagpur
Contact us: 09403964879, 8275045097
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