Golden Memories and people of Saraswati Shishu Mandir

Saraswati Sishu Mandir are a group of schools run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music and other creative arts. In Sanskrit, sishu means children and mandir means temple.

The birthplace of Saraswati Shishu Mandir is in Pakkibagh, Gorakhpur - a district of Uttar Pradesh in India. In 1952, late Nanaji Deshmukh and a group of RSS activists and Krishna Chandra Gandhi opened the first school in Gorakhpur. Prior to this, Gita school was established at Kurukshetra in the year 1946 by M. S. Golwalkar.

The education style in these schools is a blend of ancient Indian education style as prescribed in the Vedas, nationalistic Hindu pride, and contemporary subjects taught in the local language.

As on 2010, about 17,000 schools have been instituted across India. All state-level committees are affiliated to the Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan educational system, headquartered in Delhi. Most of the schools follows NCERT books and CBSE syllabus.

Many schools are currently running in rural areas for the betterment of Rural India. All those schools are funded by other schools. Vidya Bharati is working with an aim of providing quality education and creation of patriotic student in society.