The four day meet will attract volunteers from all over India. The Ekal supervisors who oversee the working of 28,000 schools will come and talk about their experiences in the villages they operate in. They will give examples of the transformation that has happened in the community they serve and they will also talk about the difficulties being faced. This will give an opportunity to take stock of the what has been achieved so far and also to plan activities for the coming future.

Recognition will be given to persons who have succeeded in achieving the targets set for them. These recognitions will be for the activities in the field of Basic Education, Health Care Education, Development Education, Empowerment Education and for achieving Self Sufficiency.

A special exhibition will be held to showcase various programmes of the Ekal work in different parts of the country. At one place one will be able to see a complete India.

A total of 14 sessions will be held in the three day meet discussing all the aspects of Ekal Vidyalaya Movement. All the sessions will be conducted by the people from the field which will give all an opportunity to witness as to what has been the empowerment of these rural people.

Yogrishi Swami Ramdevji will inaugurate the Ekal Exhibition on Thursday the 29th October 2009 at 7.00 p.m.

The RSS Chief, Sarsanghchalak Sri Mohanrao Bhagwat will inaugurate the three day Ekal International Conference on Friday the 30th October 2009 at 10.00 a.m. The other speakers include Swami Parmanandji Maharaj and VHP leader Ashok Singhal.

Sadhvi Rithambraji (Didi maa) will grace the closing session on Sunday, the 1st November 2009.

It is worth mentioning here that the Ekal Vidyalaya Movement was started in the year 1988 from the state of Jharkhand, the erstwhile state of Bihar. Today Ekal has its presence in 27110 villages in 22 states of the country. In these schools 7,78,965 students are getting their education free.

These schools function on single teacher non-formal teaching system. They provide education upto class III after which many of them go for further formal education in nearby schools. On an average some thirty students are enrolled in a school.

The Ekal schools are run for three hours every day and the timing is decided by the local village committee convenient to the students and the teacher. The reason for this is that the students help their parents at home or in the fields or in grazing cattle. Sometimes it is also the village teacher who has other chores to do in the day time.

The teacher is from the village itself. This ensures that the classes are held regularly and there is mutual involvement of the teacher and the taught. There is extensive and continuous training of the teacher to maintain efficiency.

Besides providing basic education to students Ekal has also taken the responsibility of imparting Health Care Education, Development Education and Empowerment Education to the village folk. All this to realize the dream of making a 'sikshit, swastha and samarth Bharat' (literate, healthy and empowered India).

Ekal has succeeded to put the rural folk in constructive activities, check on liquor consumption, create interest in education, prevent migration from villages, establish harmonious atmosphere in the villages etc. The efforts and commitment of our volunteers is noticed and appreciated now. Recently in the highly naxalite affected area of Chhattisgarh state the security force personnel followed our city volunteers in a remote village Khetarpal in district Bastar, 186 kilometers from the state capital Raipur. Our volunteers were on a routine 'Van Yatra' to an Ekal school. In the village the volunteers did their routine activities of games, teaching and appreciating the tribal for their work etc. This went on for about four hours and the security forces were witness to all this. Later the Commandant called Ekal's chief and appreciated what was being done saying that this is the right way to overcome acts of terrorism in the area.

Ekal schools are run in the most difficult areas also including in North East, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir etc.

The managing of Ekal is done in a very professional manner with supervision at different levels. The training programmes, conducted by experts in their areas, are a regular feature.

The complete funding for the programme is done with the help and cooperation of the society. Philanthropists at home and abroad are eager to support voluntary work to see the upliftment of the needy and see India prosper. It is a very cost effective programme where one has to contribute just Rs16,000/- to run Ekal activities in one village for a full year. The administrative cost is kept to a bear minimum which is below ten percent.

To facilitate city folk to see what Ekal is doing 'Van Yatras' or visit to schools is organized often. Here, one gets first hand information as to what transformation has come about and the urban population also comes to know of the living conditions of the rural masses.#