Mission : Fulfilling aspirations of the youth through education.

Vision : We will achieve our mission by building public opinion for Reforms in Education by involving Opinion Leaders from all walks of life be it the media, academia, industry, government, political parties, students community and the public at large :

• To unleash the creativity and innovative spirit of the Indian Youth kept under captivity by an education system created by Lord McCauley to control the minds of a slave nation as early as the 19th century.
  
• To plead for the state giving a Sovereign Guarantee to its citizens to educate themselves through guaranteed loans from banks to the millions of talented children for pursuing higher education .
  
• To demand making yearly Quality Rating of all institutions of learning mandatory by an impartial assessment authority like NAAC, irrespective of parentage or age of the institute/college or university. This can be on lines similar to those for financial instruments as mandated by SEBI .
  
• To ensure Need Based Scholarships for the socially and economically underprivileged sections of our society by making 25% of the seats mandatorily reserved for this in Private or Government controlled Institutes.

Aspirations India Activities : Aspirations India has chapters in Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad,Raipur and Bhopal and assoicates at over 100 locations. The community size is now over 20,000.

Aspirations India community members are invited for weekly dialogue sessions at locations across the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The dialogues are recorded by the Aspirations India Education Wire teams in audio-visual and text formats and relayed to the entire community including over 2000 Journalists on a weekly basis. The issues discussed in these dialogue sessions are widely covered in mass media across the country.

Aspirations India team engages the key Policy Makers and well known Opinion Leaders through one on one meetings and interactive sessions with the community. Shri Arjun Singh, Minister for HRD, Dr Karan Singh, MP, Balbir Punj, Journalist and Political Thinker, Abhisekh Singhvi, Congress(I) , Chandan Mitra, MP and Journalist, Rahul Dev, Journalist, Manoj Raghuvanshi, Journalist, Rajiv Shukla, MP and Journalist, Deshmukh, Political Analyist, Justice B.P.Singh, Justice A.K.Sikri, Kavita Sharma, Principal Hindu College, Gowri Ishwaran, Prinicipal Sanskriti School, Satinder Bajaj, Principal Lady Irwin College, IP College, Prof Paul Danos, Prof Paul Argenti, Prof Mary Munter and Prof Richard D' Aveni from Dartmouth College, USA, Michael H. Anderson, US Embassy, Pavan Chaudhry, CEO Vygon, JC Jhuraney, Samtel to name a few.

Several suggestions given by the community have been implemented by the community by introducing Need based Scholarships, voluntary assessment of quality through ISO certification and other credible authorities. Interface with the NGOs and Opinion Leaders for strengthening and inculcating good values among the youth .

Industry - academia interface has been strengthened to bridge the gap between the world of practice and academics as a regular part of the academic time table. Foreign languages have been introduced to encourage the students to learn at least one language besides english and their mother tongue to prepare them for a Global World .

Special emphasis has been given to innovative courses in Public Governance and Public Policy as it effects the larger body of citizens in all aspects. Courses for the Defence Services, reaching out to working professionals, specially those posted in places with little of no access to education through, international quality Online and Distance Education at affordable rates .

An innovative initiative has been undertaken in translation of higher education courses in major Indian Languages and in sharing of all academic knowledge with the wider community through the concept of Open Course Ware - making all class room teaching available free on the net to all. This has helped increase the total pool of knowledge and ensured that institutes at far off places with limited resources have the same quality of lecture notes and knowledge ware that is available to institutes of excellence in the well developed education centres in the metros and bigger towns.

Lastly great emphasis is being placed on inbibing in students "Life Skills" - dedication, commitment, realiability, hard work, team sprit and the sprit of enterprise, innovation and creativity- a true modern day Gurukool .

The task is daunting , challenging but with the collective wisdom of all and the sprit of "Dhoon" and "Janoon", it will be possible to bring about a radical change in the way we meet the challanges of a fiercely commpetative but richly rewarding life.