Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

The key focus areas are:

Education: 

1. Schools in remote villages: NBJK has set up five high schools in rural areas catering to 3,217 students.
2. Remedial Coaching & Orphanage: 100 Remedial Coaching Centres have been started, to improve the academic performance of 3,384 impoverished children and reduce the school drop-out rate. NBJK has also set up an orphanage Lord Buddha Home for Change (LBHC) in 2004 in Bodh-Gaya, which currently houses 68 children.
3. Child Centred Community Development (CCCD): NBJK works in 21 villages under CCCD benefitting over 4,000 children of 27 government schools and 27 Aanganwadi centers.
4. Girl Education Sponsorship: 300 high school girls (who would otherwise drop-out) were sponsored for secondary education and it also helped in reducing child marriage.

Health & Hygiene:

1. Cataract operations: NBJK has provided surgery (mostly cataract) to around 11,500 patients, either free of cost or subsidised, in backward areas through its eye hospitals at Hazaribagh and Dumka.
2. Disability & Mental Health: Mental Health Programs conducted in 15 districts in Jharkhand & Bihar, providing free care to the needy.  A total of 6,652 were treated, and 5,503 showed reduced symptoms after treatment. A total of over 30,000 PWDs (Person with Disabilities) in 5 districts were given support to get disability certificates and get government subsidies. Residential vocational training was provided to the disabled.
3. Solid-Waste Recycling & Demonstration Units have been set up by the organization. i) Vermi Compost unit made 450 MT of organic compost, a popular product for farmers, nurseries
   & kitchen gardens and mitigating effect of adverseclimate change. ii)For access to safe drinking water - coverage of 720 habitations, formation of 16 village level committees, 27 BCC campaigns on safe water handling & storage, 2 water quality tests and provided 124 points of use with purification systems.

Livelihood:

1. Youth Vocational Training & Placement:  In every year about 5,000 rural youngsters were trained and provided market aligned skills to earn a sustainable livelihood with about 70% placement with jobs/self-employment.
2. Livelihood Promotion: NBJK provided microcredit to 6,545 women for activities like vegetable cultivation/selling, live-stock & poultry, and tea-stalls. About 1,374 men were also supported through joint liability groups. Watershed & agriculture development activities helped improve food security and increase household income. 435 Usha Silai Schools & 117 Satellite Centers are at work in 39 districts of Jharkhand and Bihar.