Pratham Books

Aims to create and publish affordable books enhancing children's reading skills, fluency, and overall learning outcomes.

  • Silver Certified 2023
  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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Financials

  • 2019

    Total Income
    Rs.100,256,725
    Total Expenses
    Rs.134,695,818
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.119,687,230
    Program Expenses
    Rs.15,008,588
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  • 2020

    Total Income
    Rs.238,492,373
    Total Expenses
    Rs.159,269,972
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.138,543,150
    Program Expenses
    Rs.20,726,822
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  • 2021

    Total Income
    Rs.82,534,863
    Total Expenses
    Rs.133,908,741
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.119,431,928
    Program Expenses
    Rs.14,476,813
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  • 2022

    Total Income
    Rs.187,867,106
    Total Expenses
    Rs.157,537,265
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.31,507,453
    Program Expenses
    Rs.126,029,812
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  • 2023

    Total Income
    Rs.167,525,159
    Total Expenses
    Rs.173,890,094
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  • 2024

    Total Income
    Rs.155,140,920
    Total Expenses
    Rs.197,452,080
    Non Program Expenses
    Rs.21,155,580
    Program Expenses
    Rs.176,296,500
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Geographies Served

Programs

  • Donate a Book

    It also hosts Donate-a-Book, a crowdfunding initiative that allows individuals and organizations to set up book collection campaigns to make books accessible to children all over India. The aim is to bridge the gap between people who wish to help children learn and children who do not have access to good-quality reading material.

  • Story Cards

    A unique product of Pratham books is story cards. These are extremely economical mini storybooks which are laminated and durable and present pleasing stories in colourful formats. Through these story cards the organisation aims to make reading fun and improve reading skills in children.

  • Library in a Classroom

    Library in a Classroom(LIC) is a concept to bring the joy of reading books to children in Government and affordable private schools. It features a structure that hangs on walls and contains a hundred selected and illustrated children’s books.

    The books are openly visible to the children and not locked in cupboards, encouraging free reading, interaction and sharing of thoughts.

  • Story Weaver

    Story Weaver is a digital platform offered by Pratham books which is under an open license. The reading content available on the platform can be read, translated, versioned and printed free of cost to the user.

    The platform contains simple tools which enables stories to be translated into any language and also create stories from available illustrations. It opens up endless possibilities with regard to reading and the availability of reading material.

  • Reading Champions

    Pratham books motivates and mobilises volunteers who can tell stories to children to encourage them to develop the habit of reading. The volunteers are inspired to choose a book or story from the story weaver platform, a place which may be a government school, an NGO, a library, a bookstore, a park, a train, or their own building and conduct storytelling sessions for children.

    Volunteers are also encouraged to engage the children in activities like skits or discussions after the storytelling session to arouse their interest and retain their attention.

  • Books

    Its primary offerings are books that cover a wide variety of subjects be it fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry. The books are illustrated in full colour, are easily available and in the local language to encourage children to read more.

    With a firm belief that books are agents of change Pratham books also innovates by bringing out open-source digital and audiobooks. The available books are categorized under four groups according to the reading level of the child viz. emergent, early, independent and fluent. Care is taken to make the book as rich with pictures as possible to motivate children to become lifelong learners.

  • Digital Reading Program and Setting Up of Libraries at the Local Elementary Schools

    A state wise reading campaign carried out to enable children to benefiting from the access to good quality story books and reading for joy. And we implemented the Read at home initiative by curating and supplying Read at home Book Sets for development of school readiness and language and literacy skills in children

  • Storyweaver

    StoryWeaver (www.storyweaver.org.in) is an open-source digital platform of multilingual children’s storybooks from Pratham Books. On StoryWeaver users can read, create, translate, download, print and share stories for free! All the books on the platform are available under the CC B 4.0 Creative Commons license. By creating a collaborative framework where the creators and consumers of children’s content can interact with one another, StoryWeaver attempts to address the scarcity of books for children.

  • Missed Call Do Kahani Suno

    States

    Karnataka

    Bihar

    Rajasthan

    We ran the Missed Call Do Kahaani Suno! project between April-June 2020 starting with 1million minutes of available time with a corpus of 300+ audio stories. Over the 60+ days the project was live, we were able to reach 164,500+ children with an average of over 2000 new users calling in every day. We partnered with UNICEF teams in Bihar, Maharashtra; Pratham Education Foundation in Rajasthan; Akshara Foundation, and State Education Departments in Karnataka to name a few. This ensured sustained and impactful usage.

Impact Metrics

  • Distributed Printed Storybooks

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2016-17 154000
    • 2017-18 1400000
    • 2018-19 1500000
    • 2019-20 1500000
    • 2020-21 1100000
  • Distributed Library-In-A-Classroom Kits

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2016-17 50
    • 2018-19 200
    • 2019-20 4000
    • 2020-21 1500
  • 53K Stories on the Platform

    Year-wise Metrics
  • 24M Reads

    Year-wise Metrics
  • 335 Languages

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Children Reached-164,500+ Users

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Stories Listened-359,500+ Stories

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Calls Received-494,700+ Calls

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Children Reached-60114 Children

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Home Book Sets- 24,472, Libraries Set Up-1204

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Teachers Trained-1315

    Year-wise Metrics

Leadership Team

  • Bijal Vaccharajani

    Commissioning Editor

  • Purvi Shah

    Senior Director-StoryWeaver & Strategy

  • Himanshu Giri

    CEO

  • Bijal Vachharajani

    Commissioning Editor

  • Sandhya Taksale

    Senior Editor

  • Pragya Thakur

    Consultant-Finance & Compliance

Demographics & Structure

  • Organisation Strength

    8

  • Organization Structure Organization Structure

    Yes

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAATP7221N

  • Registration Number

    BNG(U)-JNR-IV-490-2003-04

  • CSR Form 1

    CSR00005884

  • 80G

    AAATP7221NF20126

  • 12A

    AAATP7221NE20045

  • FCRA

    094421302

About

  • Headquarters

    Bangalore, Karnataka

  • Since

    2004

Impact

Pratham Books has motivated over 5700 reading champions who conducted more than 6300 storytelling sessions in 26 languages.

Vision and Mission

A Book in Every Child's Hand

Political & Religious Declarations

  • Political Affiliation

  • Religious Affiliation

Location

  • Headquarters

    House No. 621, Second Floor, 5th Main, OMBR Layout, Banaswadi, Bangalore, Karnataka

    Directions
  • Offices in Cities

    Bangalore, Delhi

Other Details

  • Type

    Non-profit

  • Sub Type

    Trust

Technology Adoption

  • SOC 2 Compliant

    No

  • Financial Management

  • Beneficiary Management