We are an organization engaged in Education, pan India, from pre-school to Ph.D. in Engineering, Formal and non-formal Education, Skill Training, Sustainable Development, Innovation and People Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation through Engineering Colleges in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai & Goa, Polytechnics, Industrial Training Institutes, Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Centres, Catering College, Trade Schools, Agnel Business School, Sr. Secondary Schools, and Home for Orphans as well as Govt of India funded Centres for Innovation and Business Acceleration (CIBA) in Goa and Navi Mumbai for promoting Start-Ups with Seed money, mentoring and commercializing with equity options. Also funded by the World Bank, G.O.I. (S & T, MSME), for entrepreneurship development, and the distinction for being appointed by NABARD and Govt. of GOA for evaluating prospective applicants for funding.
Have conducted large-scale design, training, skilling, and deployment of thousands of skilled manpower all across West Asia during the oil boom (1975-1990). Consulted with International Firms including BECHTEL for Saudi-Pritchard Waste Management. Introduced in India the fully mechanized, untouched by human hands, pneumatic garbage collection, and palletizing trucks for the management of urban waste in Saudi Arabia.
Designed skills for maintenance engineers, underwater argon arc welding, aluminium technicians, and all civil engineering skills, including civil works supervisors, draughtsmen, masons, tilers, carpenters, steel fixers, and plumbers. Staffed several hotel chains from entry-level waiters to General Managers.
Recruited and trained for West Asia Oil industry, sophisticated and precision super highly skilled X-Ray pipe welders, with validation by Veritas, Lloyds, London. Staffed A.C.C., Caterpillar, Shapoorjee Pallonjee, Oman, Saudi Tarmac, Qatar, Asry (Shipbuilding) Bahrain, Sembawang Shipyard and Robin Lo, Singapore, etc.
Diversified into Sustainable and Entrepreneurship Development as a consequence of its intense Technical Training engagement by transferring Technology to Rural areas and upgrading traditional skills into more productive enterprises, impacting socio-economic change in hundreds of villages in Maharashtra and Goa. These initiatives were at the inception funded through the World Bank Rural Community Programs but later adopted through the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSME) Govt. of India.
In the NCR the Society is engaged in Mainstream and skill Education, in Gautam Nagar, New Delhi, Sector 62, Noida, and Vaishali, as well as Beta II, Greater Noida.
Greater Noida has a large facility where we shelter and educate over 250 orphans, who attend regular public schools and pursue higher-level University education. Poverty alleviation and skilling centres also exist at Mollarbhand Kadder, Delhi, and Khodda Colony, U.P.
We are present through our associate institutions in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chattisgarh, Daman and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Gujerat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.
In the NCR the Society is engaged in Mainstream and skill Education, in Gautam Nagar, New Delhi, Sector 62, Noida, and Vaishali, as well as Beta II, Greater Noida.
Greater Noida has a large facility where we shelter and educate over 250 orphans, who attend regular public schools and pursue higher-level University education.
This program was started 10 years ago, together with 10 other centres all around Delhi, under the Community Polytechnic program. Our Faculty worked with the local unemployed, honing and improving skills for employment or better employment.
The Program under the Community Polytechnic was wound up through government action and we continued with this self-financing activity and scaled it to what it is today;
In the National Capital Territory, we operate from 6 main locations:
FR. AGNEL BALBHAVAN, BETA IOI, GREATER NOIDA presently carrying on large-scale Skill Training and Empowerment, with CSR funding from JSW STEEL, JSW ENERGY, GODREJ & BOYCE, GODREJ INDUSTRIES, AMBUJA CEMENT, MAZAGON DOCK SHIPBUILDERS, VEDANTA FOUNDATION, INDIAN OIL CORPORATION, MHRD. GOVT OF MAHARASHTRA and scores of other Organizations and Trusts in Maharashtra, Gujrat, Bihar, CII (Western Region), Maharashtra Skill Development Society MSSDS), TISS, Capital Goods Council Sectoral Skills (CGSKC), and many more.
AGNEL JAN KALYAN strives towards Poverty Alleviation, through Participatory Enterprise, Health Care, Skill Training, Livelihood Education for life and Livelihood, and Employment Generation of the marginalized through People’s Participation
Jan Kalyan Kendra is a movement, an idea that wells up, from deep within us, and calls each of us to share what we have, so that our life becomes purposeful, and worth living. Here, at Agnel Jan Kalyan Kendra, we help each other to grow into that consciousness that drives us to look beyond ourselves and to reach out in solidarity with the marginalized through empowerment and livelihood education.
This is not an outfit or organization but a movement that invites all to participate and welcomes each who would like to share with others because he or she is provided with.
Poverty and inequality may or may not be man made, but mankind can and must address it, as an essential feature of its sense of identity, of being human. There is no justification for remaining indifferent to the plight of people around us, who live in sub-human conditions of poverty and ignorance, without any opportunity or apparent hope. The essence of being human, is being human, as the term itself indicates: FEEL, BE AWARE, and RESPOND to the needs of those who are less provided. We are driven by the teaching of Lord Jesus: “Love your neighbour as yourself” and the fundamental understanding of our existence as interdependent and intertwined. Our existence is qualified by how intensely we are engaged with those who need us. This predicament arises out of the fact that we are provided, and others are less so. We believe that people around us, who are less fortunate are somehow our responsibility, and we need to respond to that reality by reaching out to them, even if it demands that we give up something of what we have. Such an outreach is genuine when it is not patronising or when approached without an attitude of superiority or pity. We will walk together in solidarity and equality, because that is the call of the human heart.
Our primary mission therefore is to conscientize people about what each one of us can and must do, to be human; we will do this, not by giving doles to people who need help, which is far easier to do, but to go down the path or learning and struggling with them so that together we rise, in a genuine effort to empower others and in the process, empowering ourselves. Paulo Freire’s approach of – advocacy, adoption and immersion – are best suited for shared solidarity towards empowerment.
The world is waiting for each one of us to respond, and the cries of the needy and the disempowered will continue to be heard by those who are sensitive. As long as we are ready to respond, there are enough opportunities to be engaged and be partners of change that the world so sorely needs! OUR MISSION is to sound the bugle, that you and the world out there, may hear and join the movement!
As a small non-profit organization, running a School close to a neighbourhood that lives in stark contrast to those who attend our school, we have decided to break the mental and emotional walls that physically and mentally separated us, and to pitch ourselves amidst that large community in solidarity, and walk the talk that our belief on solidarity with the disadvantaged is more than just a belief, but something that belongs to our core. We also hope that our effort where our engagement with the disadvantaged, funded from our own meagre savings, and managed with people of all creeds and communities, is an invitation for others too to get engaged with their innate passion to live more than just for ‘ourselves’!
AGNEL CHARITIES (Agnel Seva Sangh) is a Registered Charitable Non-Profit Organisation, with pan India presence in education, skilling, human capital creation and employment generation. The Promoters are a group of dedicated professionals who are leveraging developmental change through Mainstream Technical and Engineering Education, Employment oriented skilling with experience of placing thousands of persons all over the world primarily in skilled jobs. In urban poverty centres we are engaged in poverty alleviation through multipronged strategies that attempt to offer a 360 degree change opportunity
Some of our campuses offer Pre-school to Ph.D. facilities, and we have Engineering Colleges in Mumbai and Goa, Polythecnics, Senior Secondary and Secondary Schools, Industrial Training Institutes, Trade Schools, Rural Technology Transfer Centres, Enterpreneurhsip Development Centres, Centres for Innovation and Business Acceleration, Homes for Destitute children. We are also present through our associate institutions in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Daman and Nagar Haveli, Delhi, Goa, Gujerat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
The Program under the Community Polytechnic was wound up through government action and we continued with this self-financing activity and scaled it to what it is today;
In the National Capital Territory, we operate from 6 main locations:
AGNEL BALBHAVAN, BETA IOI, GREATER NOIDA presently carrying on large-scale Skill Training and Empowerment, with CSR funding from JSW STEEL, JSW ENERGY, GODREJ & BOYCE, GODREJ INDUSTRIES, AMBUJA CEMENT, MAZAGON DOCK SHIPBUILDERS, VEDANTA FOUNDATION, INDIAN OIL CORPORATION, MHRD. GOVT OF MAHARASHTRA and scores of other Organizations and Trusts in Maharashtra, Gujrat, Bihar, CII (Western Region), Maharashtra Skill Development Society MSSDS), TISS, Capital Goods Council Sectoral Skills (CGSKC), and many more.
AGNEL JAN KALYAN KENDRA (AJKK) (an initiative to empower the marginalized by improving quality of life through education, skilling, and participatory enterprise)
