Our mission
We work to transform the Indian education system, where every child can learn joyfully through the principles of Integral Education. We do this by utilising the existing resources and empowering all stakeholders to make a bigger difference.
Our Roots
Our history goes back to 1960, when the Mother founded Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS), an international NGO driving change in diverse fields – Youth & Women, Children with Special Needs, Education, Leadership & Management, Indian Culture,
Sustainable Development & Renewable Energy, and more.
The Government of India (GoI) recognizes SAS as a charitable organization, a research institute, and an institution of importance throughout India.
Rupantar came into being in 2015, inspired by the principles of Integral Education as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Our vision is to make these ideals a reality for every child of this nation.
Five bold goals
We are working where the future of India lives and dreams – the education system. To really help the nation’s 250 million students, the need of the hour is to make big, connected changes across the board. Our research shows that embracing these
changes leads to better learning outcomes, lower costs, and more meaningful contributions from everyone involved.
With this aspiration, Rupantar has laid out five major goals to reach by 2030. It sets us on a path to fully transform how education works for everyone:
Deepen implementation of NEP 2020
Through competency-based learning (CBL) framework – a first in India – and strengthening inclusive education.Embracing experiential learning
Through learning-by-doing methods rooted in integral education, which ensure holistic development of every learner.Empowering education entrepreneurs
By incubating and guiding their fresh ideas, technologies, and pedagogies into the mainstream education system.Creating role model govt. schools
By transforming 10,000 schools into CoEs for teaching and learning– aligned with NEP and equipped with zero investment innovations.Forging powerful partnerships
By partnering with thought leaders, including TISS Mumbai, JNU Delhi, ACER, KPMG, and EY, for a collective impact.
Milestones
Reinvigorating Learning Frameworks
Our Competency-Based Teaching-Learning program is redefining the learning patterns to shift India’s education paradigm away from rote learning, towards practical skills, problem-solving, and critical thinking, ultimately enhancing the learning outcomes. In a path breaking move to forward the cause of CBL, SAS together with ACER developed 3 CBL frameworks across Reading, Mathematics and Scientific literacy focusing on hands-on practical skills, problem-solving, and critical thinking. These frameworks have been officially adopted by CBSE as a PAN India program and are available on the official website – https://cbseacademic.nic.in/cbe/learning-framework.html This transformative approach has been officially recognized as a PAN India program. The primary goal is to make the process of learning easy, experiential, and practical.
Micro scholarships. Macro returns.
Our micro-scholarship app, Auro Scholar, witnessed a remarkable 1.5 million downloads in just four years. This curriculum-based quizzing platform, validated by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), awards Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) to K12 students scoring 80% and above. Beyond the financial rewards, students engage in assessments across five subjects, with the intrinsic motivation growing through three retakes. A KPMG report highlights that Auro Scholar winners increased their assessments by 714.8%, showcasing the app’s impact on sustained learning. In a country where a child’s contribution to the family income is crucial, these micro-scholarships play a vital role in keeping children in school.
Honoring 2.5 Million Teachers for their Innovation
We held a million hands together, to be precise 2.5 million, by encouraging innovative, experiential knowledge-driven, bottoms up ideas. In schools, countless innovative teachers were silently making a significant impact, only waiting to be discovered. We celebrated their exceptional efforts by presenting national and state-level awards, with state and cabinet ministers felicitating their achievements, and organizing three impactful conferences and seminars. Today, our community proudly includes 1600 awarded teachers and a total of 2.5 million teachers who have undergone physical training and orientation. The culmination of their best ideas resulted in the compilation of 1600+ case studies, meticulously documented and published in the 56 Innovations Handbook (Navachar Pustika). These solution-focused case studies provide customizable approaches that any school can adopt to achieve tangible development outcomes.