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Paragon Charitable Trust

Paragon Charitable Trust aims to demonstrate best practices in education through an inclusive, student and teacher-friendly, community-based system within mainstream schooling. It seeks to provide holistic learning, keeping in mind 21st-century skills essential for young learners.

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About

  • Headquarters

    Mumbai, Maharashtra

  • Since

    1966

Paragon Charitable Trust is an independent, non-profit organization established in 1966 to promote education for underprivileged students. In 2003, it Read more initiated the 'Muktangan' experiment in collaboration with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai to address the quality gap in mainstream education through an integrated, community-based model of school and teacher education.


Action

Paragon Charitable Trust runs the Muktangan program, which operates 7 English-medium municipal schools in Mumbai, offering child-centered education to over 4000 children from underserved communities and providing livelihood opportunities to community members through teacher education programs.

Cause Area

Sector

Impact

Muktangan has impacted over 75,000 children and 5,000 teachers and teacher educators through its outreach projects. It has trained 700+ community members as teachers, with 653 currently employed as Teachers & Leaders.

Vision & Mission

The vision is to create an inclusive and empowered world that enables everyone to live in harmony with freedom of expression, respect, and integrity. The mission is to evolve sustainable, replicable inclusive models of quality child-centered teacher education and school programs in partnership with marginalized communities and to advocate them to the larger system.

Milestones & Track Record

Muktangan's Founder Trustee, Elizabeth Mehta, was awarded The Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2015. The organization was felicitated in 2019 for 'Quality Teacher Development' by The Reliance Foundation and the Center for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA). It was also awarded as India's most committed NGO working in Early Childhood Development in 2014.

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Registration Details

  • Registration ID

    E-3305(BOM)

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    MH/2017/0163916

  • FCRA

    083781089

  • CSR Registration Number

    Not Available

Location

  • Headquarters

    (Registered Address) Paragon Centre, I-11/12, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli

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Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust

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