The Annual Report of Shoshit Seva Sangh for the financial year 2016-17

(April 01, 2016 to March 31, 2017)

The year 2016-17 was quite eventful for Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, the fully free English

medium residential school for the poorest of the poor, the children of the musahar community of

Bihar, run by Shoshit Seva Sangh. 60 students all in the age group of 6-7 years were admitted

to the pre-school class. The students were drawn from various villages of Bihar particularly

some of the remote villages of the most underdeveloped districts of Bihar. Within a few months

these boys learnt personal and social hygiene and adopted to reasonably modern living

conditions. The Central Board of Secondary Education granted affiliation to the school upto +2

level for humanities and science streams. The grant of +2 affiliation by the CBSE is a

recognition of the high quality of teaching and facilities at the school.

To further improve the sports facilities at the residential

school which now has 400 students, project

‘Dronacharya’ was launched in September, 2016.

Fortunately, funds could be raised to finance the

employment of well-trained part-time coaches for

various activities such as basket-ball, volley-ball,

hockey, badminton, kho-kho/kabbadi, martial-arts and

yoga. The students of SSS participate in sports activities

for two hours daily under the watchful eyes of the coaches. This has had a marked impact on

the health, personality and discipline of the students. They now have a packed but a very

interesting and purposeful daily routine.

The school also acquired a 40 seater

bus which is mainly used for excursion

trips for the students on weekends.

They are taken-out in batches on

Sundays and holidays. They go on both

educational and recreational trips within

the city and its outskirts.

Shoshit Samadhan observed its 10th Foundation on July 16, 2016. The Governor of the state of

Bihar, Hon’ble Ram Nath Kovind was the Chief Guest and the function was attended by a large

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number of special invitees as well as parents and guardians of the students, many of them had

come from distant villages. The quality of education imparted by SSK was reflected in a truly

scintillating performance by the students on the Foundation Day. The students enacted

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. Their acting, diction and rendering of the dialogue was truly amazing.

Anoj Kumar studying in class IX, both his parents are landless labourers, gave an excellent

performance as ‘Hamlet’. His rendering of the famous soliloquy ‘to be or not to be’ was truly

brilliant. Equally, amazing was the performance of the play in Hindi called ‘Shudra’. It was a

highly erudite and a philosophical dialogue between the great Chanakya and the Archaryas of

Taxila who were opposing the rise of Chandragupta Maurya as the king emperor of India

because of his low caste. Nandan Kumar, a class VI student who acted as Chanakya gave an

accomplished performance. He spoke with passion and great conviction. Nandan lost his

mother in the most tragic circumstances and his father is a landless agricultural labourer. His life

story is indeed heart-rending. He like Anoj joined SSK in class I. Both these performances

would without any doubt do proud to the best of schools in India. There were song -dance

performances by the students including one by the primary students of the school. The cultural

presentation was widely appreciated. Some photographs of the function which was held in the

school auditorium are given below –

A team from Bollywood had conducted a workshop on film making in the school in December,

2016. The students made two short films entitled ‘Zindagi EK Deal’ and ‘Lothwa’. These two

films alongwith a few films produced by some other schools for underprivileged children were

screened in a film festival in Mumbai. The Jury comprised celebrities of Bollywood including

Farah Khan, Prakash Jha, Sudhir Mishra, Varun Dhawan, Satish Kaushik, Jackie Shroff and a

few others. The films produced by the students of SSK won the ‘best actor’ and the ‘best

screenplay’ awards. Special mention was made of the two films produced by SSK students by

some members of the Jury.

A sketch of the Chief Guest

being presented by artist

Dharmendra Kumar, Class VI

Chanakya addressing the

Acharyas of Taxila, a scene

from the play ‘Shudra’

A scene from Hamlet

The budget for the financial year 2016-17 was

Rs. 1.84 crores. The actual expenditure during the financial year was Rs. 2,09,60,873/-. The

accounts of Shoshit Seva Sangh for the financial year 2016-17 were audited by M/s Singh

Ray Mishra & Co., Chartered Accountants, Patna. The Audit Report is available -

http://www.sssfoundation.com/financial.html .

The Head of the NGO Shri J.K. Sinha does not draw any remuneration or enjoy any benefit on

account of the NGO. The highest paid functionary of the NGO is the Principal of the school, Shri

R U Khan, who gets a salary of Rs. 55000/ per month-. The lowest paid staff is the Guards /

Guides and Asst. Cooks in the school, getting a salary of Rs.7000/- per month. The distribution

of staff according to salary levels and gender break-up are as follows :-

Slab of gross salary per month (in Rs) plus

benefits paid to staff

Male

staff

Female staff Total staff

Less than 5000 00 00 00

5,001 – 10,000 16 00 16

10,001 – 25,000 15 10 25

25,001 – 50,000 03 00 03

50,000 – 1,00,000 01 00 01

Greater than 1,00,000 00 00 00

All the Board Members including the Founder-Chairman work in a purely voluntary capacity and

draw no benefit from Shoshit Seva Sangh. No international travel was undertaken by the

personnel of Shoshit Seva Sangh. Internal or national travel was undertaken only by the

Founder-Chairman but on principle he has laid down that internal travel by him or any member

of the Board of Trustees on account of Shoshit Seva Sangh shall be borne personally by the

Trustee himself.

The accounts of Shoshit Seva Sangh for the financial year 2016-17 were audited by reputed

Charted Accountants Singh Ray Mishra and Company. The balance-sheet, income and

expenditure statements as well as receipts and payments as per the audit report are given

below as Table 1 - Balance Sheet, Table 2 - Income and Expenditure Account, and Table 3-

Receipt and Payment Account.

Table 1 - Balance Sheet

Table 2 - Income and Expenditure Account

Table 3- Receipt and Payment Account.

(J.K. Sinha)

Founder-Chairman

29-10-2017