Landmark Events in our history

Our first Annual Day...

When Late Geeta Bajaj established the school in July, 1952, she aptly named it "Bal Mandir Happy School". Soon, in its first year itself, the 5 kids with whom she started it, grew to be near a hundred, which was extremely heartening and allowed he and her team members' spirits to soar...

When it was time to celebrate its first ever annual School Day, she could think of none else except the lady who had extended her a lot of moral support in her noble venture, the Maharani of Jaipur, Mrs. Gayatri Devi, as the chief guest for the occasion. It was indeed the Maharani, who was also the Chairman of the Social Welfare Board and the local Member of Parliament, who had helped he get a piece of land 100 sq. Metres, in the Moti Doongri area,

Not only did Gayatri Devi accept her request, she came and at the end of the small programme, announced a grant of (at that time) princely sum of Rs. Five Thousand to the school !

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Celebration of the Sansthan’s Golden Jubilee

Our Sansthan celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 4th October, 2004. A glittering function was held in the Sansthan campus in front of the open stage, with a plethora of VIP guests present and participating in the celebrations. The Chief Guest of the occasion was His Excellency Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the then Vice President of India. Other guests included the Rajasthan Governor Sri Madan Lal Khurana, and the function was presided over by Shri Ghanshyam Tiwari, the state Education Minister.

The highlight of the occasion was a dance-drama depicting the complete life story of our founder late Geeta Bajaj from the time of her birth on 19th March, 1919, till she completed her journey and attained Mahanirvana own 3rd August 1995 at the age of 76. This was jointly staged by the students of the senior secondary school and the BEd college.

Addressing the audience, Shri Shekhawat reminisced over his long relationship with this Mrs. Geeta Bajaj and narrated many interesting incidents , fondly talking about how she would demand whenever she needed government support for “her children”. He also talked about the time when he met Mrs Bajaj for the first time when they contested elections against each other from Sikar for the position of MLA in the 1957 general elections, and the cordial relations they maintained despite politically being opposed to each other’s ideology. Shri Komal Chand Patni, the Sansthan President and its Secretary (and Geeta ji’s son-in-law) Shri Jasdev Singh detailed the story of the growth of the institution during the 5 decades that had done by since its establishment by her with just 5 tiny dots belonging to the most underprivileged families from the neighbouring Moti Dungri area.

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Inauguration of the NTPC Block building

Sometime in the year 2016, the government decided that the Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree course will be of 2 years duration instead of the one year that was then prevalent, and we felt the need for more classroom and other facilities. A need was felt for more construction within the available space. We approached various companies for CSR support to build a new block and found support from the power sector giant NTPC in New Delhi, where our Secretary Shri Gurdev Singh had served in the beginning of his career at the time of the company's inception and had acquaintance is at the top of the organization. Eventually NTPC agreed to support us to the extent of nearly 70% of the funds required for constructing a new block, which was taken up and completed in the first quarter of 2017. This building was aptly named “NTPC Block” and its design and construction were completed in a record 6 months time.

We invited Shri AK Jha, Director (Projects) of NTPC who had piloted the sanctioning of this financial support to us to inaugurate the new building and it was finally opened for use on 9th July 2017, which coincided with the 67th Foundation Day of Geeta Bajaj Bal mandir Sansthan. On this occasion we also honoured a few veterans who had served the institution in various capacities for long periods of time, as well as the architect Shri Ravi Gupta, who today happens to be our President.

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Inauguration of the renovated Auditorium

One of the dream projects nurtured for decades by our founder Mrs Geeta Bajaj, was to build an auditorium for her students in the campus itself, and she had actually completed building it to the then prevailing standards by the summer of 1995. However, before the President of India late Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma could come and inaugurate it, in a disastrous fire, the whole auditorium went up in flames and was destroyed.

After a long gap of 22 years, her grandson Gurdev Singh took over the responsibilities of the Bal Mandir Sansthan and also took up the project of rebuilding a very modern, state-of-the-art auditorium at the same place, with all modern amenities as required now a days. Eventually, the completed auditorium was inaugurated on 6th April, 2018, by the well known and popular stage and music artist Padma Shri Shekhar Sen, also the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Academy, in a glamorous function. It was christened the “Geeta Girdhar Sabhagar” in line with the wishes of the family of Mrs. Geeta Bajaj – Late Girdhari Lal Bajaj was Geeta ji’s husband, whose sad and untimely demise at the young age of 21 years put the brave lady on a different track and shaped her future life in the decades that followed her personal tragedy.

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Launch of Geeta Bajaj Centenary celebrations

The Bal Mandir Sansthan celebrated the birth centenary year of its founder late Geeta Bajaj in 1919-20, and the inaugural function was held on 16th July 1919 coinciding with the institutions 67th Foundation Day. Celebrations and other events like inter-school and inter-college competitions in dance and drama as well as other activities were organised throughout the following months.

The Chief Guest for the inaugural function was Shri Govind Singh Dotasara, the State Education Minister, and a special Guest of Honour was veteran jurist, justice Vinod Shankar Dave.

Dotasara ji spoke about his association with Geeta ji when his wife was studying in the STC program here. He spoke about her being a strict disciplinarian and also about her love for all students, and narrated his memories from that time when he used to come to visit her in the hostel of the Sansthan and often ran into Didi, as everybody called Mrs. Bajaj. Justice Dave spoke about his memories of Geeta ji’s time and paid her rich tributes for her lifelong devotion to the cause of educating children from the underprivileged sections of society and also ensuring quality education for women of Rajasthan.

The highlight of the occasion was a beautifully choreographed dance-drama narrating Geeta ji’s life journey, first as freedom fighter and later as an educationist. The Sansthan Secretary Gurdev Singh – grandson of Late Geeta ji- spoke emotionally about his life of everyday learning from her.

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