Purkal Youth Development Society

Purkal Youth Development Society primarily works in the space of providing quality education to underprivileged children from remote areas of Uttarakh Read moreand. It manages a school that provides holistic care, nutrition, healthcare services, quality education and support for girl children. Its aim is to create a centre of excellence for children that imparts education and guidance throughout their careers and beyond. It has been decorated with many awards for its humanitarian services the most recent being the regional winner of the 10th Spirit of Humanity Annual Award by Americares India Foundation for creating tangible social impact.

Vision
Our vision is to produce
future agents of change
who will transform the socio
– economics of the
backward areas of
Uttarakhand.
Mission
❖ Enrol children (predominantly
girls) with potential, from deeply
needy and underprivileged families,
with preference to those from
remote reaches of Uttarakhand
❖Provide these children with holistic
care + education, including life skills
and value systems through a
combination of adequate
nutrition/health care, high quality
academics and full exposure to cocurricular
❖Facilitate their onboarding into a
professional/vocational education
leading to adequate employability
❖Be recognized as a Centre of
Excellence

1998: Mr. GK Swamy & Mrs. Chinni Swamy set out to address
educational gaps in the community and took in a handful of
local children, tutoring and feeding them after school hours, at
their rented home near Purkal village.
➢2003: The Purkal Youth Development Society is formally
registered as a Society under the Society Registration Act, 1860.
The initiative that commenced in 1998 continues to operate out
of cattle sheds and rented garages.
➢ 2006: Construction activities begin at the current PYDS
campus.
➢ 2007: PYDS becomes a day-boarding school and launches
BTTP [Bus Them To Purkal], an initiative that expands its reach, to
villages at a distance from Purkal.
➢2010: ECLC [Early Childhood Learning Centre], in partnership
with with our sister NGO Purkal Stree Shakti (established and run
by Mrs. Chinni Swamy) is inaugurated to benefit the children of
young mothers of the community.
➢2013: PYDS receives CBSE affiliation for class XII. Nine children,
victims of the ‘Himalayan Tsunami’, are adopted and housed for
the first time.
➢2014: Shiksha Pundir becomes the first PYDS student to travel
overseas to China for six months on an exchange program. Ever
since, our students have been going on exchange programs to
international schools every year.
➢2015: The first PYDS School batch passes out, bearing
testimony to our efforts.
➢2016: Girls' hostel facilities were constructed on campus and
boys' hostel facilities started in a rented house close to campus.
➢2017: The first batch of the Navjeevan program commences.
➢2019: Mr. Anoop Seth takes over as the Society Secretary.
➢2020: Amidst the onset of COVID-19, the Government
announces a nationwide lockdown. PYDS implements various
platforms of digital learning.
➢2021: Our curriculum is digitized, laptops are distributed to all
teachers and the campus is Wi-fi enabled.
➢2022: Full campus activities resume with all students returning
to physical classes after a gap of almost two years