WHAT WE DO

Dakshana helps bright and impoverished students predominantly from rural India to prepare for IIT and medical entrance exams.

  • OUR PROGRAMS

    Dakshana focuses on poverty alleviation through education. Dakshana alleviates poverty by identifying brilliant but impoverished teenagers and providing intensive coaching for 1-2 years for the IIT and medical entrance exams.

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  • OUR LEADERS

    None of Dakshana’s management team has ever worked in the not-for-profit industry before coming to Dakshana. They have come from either the business world or served for decades in senior positions in India’s armed services.

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  • BECOME A DAKSHANA SCHOLAR

    Dakshana Scholars are a rare breed of gifted students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and government schools across India. They are selected for intensive coaching after Class 10 & Class 12 based on their academic record and results from Dakshana’s proprietary testing.

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WE’VE MADE A DIFFERENCE
AND THERE’S LOT MORE TO DO

Dakshana’s primary focus is on the 970 Million people living in India’s 638,000 villages. Large swaths of India’s massive rural population live in extreme poverty and are mostly left out of the economic growth plans underway in the country. Rural India comprises 72% of the country’s population. At institutions like the IITs, less than 5% of the students come from impoverished rural backgrounds.

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8147

STUDENTS

FROM IMPOVERISHED FAMILIES

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₹ 130

CRORES INVESTED

IN QUALITY EDUCATION

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1518

SCHOLARS

CURRENTLY PREPARING FOR IIT & MEDICAL ENTRANCE EXAMS
AT 7 CAMPUSES ACROSS INDIA

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40735

LIVES IMPACTED

FOREVER

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DAKSHANA MODEL

The Dakshana model for impoverished, but gifted students to get admitted to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Government Medical Colleges.

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Dakshana's mission is to deliver world-class education opportunities for exceptionally gifted children from impoverished poor backgrounds in India.

Dakshana is a Sanskrit word meaning to give or receive a gift. The Dakshana Foundation is a young philanthropic foundation focused on alleviating poverty. Education is the most powerful and enduring weapon to win the battle against poverty. Thus, Dakshana is focused on providing world-class educational opportunities to economically and socially disadvantaged gifted children worldwide. We’re focused on providing 1-2 years of world-class intensive coaching to gifted, but impoverished students to prepare for IIT and medical entrance exams.

These adolescents receive a gift from Dakshana in their time of need. There is an expectation that, as adults, they would be giving gifts to adolescents in situations similar to their own in earlier years – either through Dakshana or via other organizations. They can also choose to give back nothing. The cornerstone of Dakshana’s model is that the beneficiary of aid today is the donor of tomorrow. Dakshana’s model is self-sustaining and scalable.

The Dakshana Foundation is a tax-exempt private charitable foundation approved by the IRS in the United States under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Dakshana India Educational Trust is an approved charity by various government entities in India.

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