Our work
Twenty schools. Twenty-five years.
Since 2001, Nagpur Round Table 83 has invested over ₹3.6 crore in school infrastructure across Nagpur city and the villages around it.
Round Table India Zilla Parishad School, Nagazari
Nagazari village lies 12 km from Hingna town in Nagpur district. Its Zilla Parishad school runs Grades 1 to 8 for 95 students — our most recently completed Freedom Through Education project.
- Location — Nagazari Village, Hingna Taluka, Nagpur
- School — Grades 1–8 · 95 students
- Scope — Three furnished classrooms, modern desks and separate washrooms for boys and girls, designed for expansion
- Capacity — Built for close to 200 children, with a play area
- Cost — ₹40 lakh, from donations, fundraisers and CSR — with crowdfunding from the village itself and support from the local body
- Partner — Bridge The Gap Foundation, which also trains the school's teaching and non-teaching staff
- Status — Phase I complete; the first modern structure in the village
Flagship
Freedom Through Education at Sukali, Hingna
Our largest single undertaking is a two-phase project at Sukali village. Phase one demolished a dilapidated Zilla Parishad building and replaced it with a fully ventilated, state-of-the-art block — three furnished classrooms, a computer lab, separate washrooms for boys and girls, and a playing area. A second three-classroom grant followed for the first floor. The Table then furnished it: a library, refurbished laptops, a table tennis board, stationery, and a flag hoisting on Independence Day. A 2.5 kW solar array was put on the roof by two donor companies, so the building largely runs itself.
The ledger
Every project we have built.
Costs as recorded in the Table's donor documentation.
| Year | Project | Cost | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Round Table India ZP School, Nagazari, Hingna (tribal belt) — Phase I | ₹40.00 L | Built for ~200 children · 3 classrooms |
| 2023 | Round Table India ZP Primary School, Sukali, Nagpur | ₹26.00 L | 200 students · 3 classrooms |
| 2022 | Zilla Parishad School, Sukali, Nagpur | ₹36.00 L | 175 students · 3 classrooms |
| 2018 | Uday Shikshan Sanstha — Jivan Shikshan Vidhyalaya, new wing | ₹18.00 L | 120 students · 2 classrooms |
| 2017 | Uday Shikshan Sanstha, new structure | ₹15.00 L | 100 students · 2 classrooms |
| 2016 | Lt. Col. V. D. Paranjape Memorial School | ₹24.00 L | 350 students · 4 classrooms |
| 2016 | Bal Mandir Sanstha, Dharampeth — new wing | ₹17.50 L | — |
| 2015 | Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya, Utkhana — new wing | ₹16.13 L | — |
| 2014 | Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya, Utkhana — expansion | ₹15.06 L | — |
| 2013 | Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya, Parvati Nagar — new wing | ₹14.50 L | — |
| 2012 | Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya, Parvati Nagar — second wing | ₹13.40 L | — |
| 2012 | Uday Shikshan Sanstha, Phase IV | ₹13.00 L | — |
| 2012 | Uday Shikshan Sanstha, Parvati Nagar — 3,000 sq ft wing | ₹13.00 L | 400 children |
| 2011 | Uday Shikshan School, Phase III — new wing | ₹13.00 L | — |
| 2011 | Uday Education Society, Parvati Nagar — new wing | ₹8.13 L | — |
| 2010 | Uday Shikshan Sanstha, Parvati Nagar — new wing | ₹7.94 L | — |
| 2007 | Sant Gamaji Trust school, Mandwa, Umred (tribal belt) | ₹28.00 L | — |
| 2005 | New school, Raipur Village, Hingna | ₹13.50 L | — |
| 2003 | Uday Education Society, Parvati Nagar — new school | ₹6.87 L | — |
| 2001 | Arya Prathamik Shala, Sadar — established | ₹24.35 L | — |
20 completed school projects · ₹363.38 lakh (₹3.63 crore) committed. Figures to 2023 are as recorded in the Table's donor documentation; the Nagazari Phase I cost is as reported in the press at the project's inauguration.
Partner with us
The next school starts with a conversation.
Under the theme Build through Brotherhood, Nagpur Round Table 83 continues to build classrooms for children who would otherwise learn in unsafe buildings — or not at all.
Every project on the ledger above began the same way: a company, a family or a trust deciding to fund one. If you are looking for a school project to support this financial year, we will walk you through how we identify a school, what a build costs, and the certified reporting you receive at the end of it.
Community service
Delivered directly, year round.
- Blood donation camps every year since 2019 — lately with Jeevan Jyoti Blood Bank
- Health check-up camps at Shri Maheshwar Vaanprastha Aashram, an old age home — blood pressure, sugar, eyes, ECG and physician consultations for residents and their carers, with Arihant Multispeciality Hospital
- Nutrition kits for 62 HIV-positive patients — a joint project with NLC 50, NTRT 299 and NART 180
- School fees sponsored for underprivileged children — ₹1,41,500 raised in a single afternoon across all four Nagpur Tables and the Ladies Circle
- Refurbished laptops donated to our FTE school at Sukali, Hingna
- A 300 sq ft toilet block at Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya — separate facilities for girls, and for boys and staff — built with Round Table India Foundation and Trust
- Table tennis board, stationery and sports equipment for FTE schools
- Ration kits distributed to the transgender community
- A deafness-awareness seminar on cochlear implants at Kingsway Hospital, part-sponsored by the Table — about a thousand people reached
- Chairs, tables and book racks for Bharat Muk Vidyalaya, the school for deaf children, on World Deaf Day 2019 — with every Nagpur Table and the Ladies Circle
- A good-touch, bad-touch workshop for classes 2 to 7 at Maharashtra Adhyayan School, taken by a doctor — the kind of hour a school rarely has anyone to give
- Five hundred and fifty packets of Boost, June 2022 — to the Shraddhanand Anathalaya, to the villages of Ghuikhed and Titwa, and to the city’s auto-rickshaw drivers
- Study kits for eighty children at the Divya Jyoti Social Centre — notebooks, pens and a crayon set each, given by a Tabler
- Animal welfare at Bhaduri Fata on the Umred road, taken up with every Nagpur Table and the Ladies Circle during RTI week
- About a thousand saplings planted in a single day at the Buti Bori industrial area in August 2012, with Nagpur Ladies Circle 50 and the Buti Bori Manufacturing Association
- Support for the Nagesh Trophy, the men’s national T20 cricket tournament for the blind — eight states and over two hundred players, with Nagpur Ladies Circle 50
- A games library for the Sukali school, given by a Tabler and his wife
- Relief for the Kolhapur floods of 2021 — sent for medical supplies, and redirected at the Area’s request to rebuild a funeral home the water had destroyed
- ₹1,19,250 to the Nepal Flood Relief Fund — the largest contribution from any Table in Area 3, and more than a third of the ₹3.03 lakh the Area raised between them, passed on in full to Round Table in Nepal in September 2026
- Flag hoisting and annual-day participation at Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya, Untkhana
- RTI Square — the traffic island at Mount Road, Sadar. Round Table India’s own record shows Tablers at the square as far back as 2008; the maintenance contract was taken from the Nagpur Municipal Corporation in 2022, and the four Nagpur Tables and the Ladies Circle look after it between them
Publicity & the city
RTI Square, Mount Road.
In July 2022 the Nagpur Municipal Corporation put its traffic islands out to tender for adoption. Nagpur Round Table 83 bid for the island at Mount Road, Sadar, and won it. It has been ours to keep since.
What that means in practice is unglamorous and continuous: a gardener on a standing arrangement, watering, soil conditioning, trimming, and replanting when the season turns. New plants and grass patches went in that first December. The Jayaswal Neco group waters it at no cost to us. It is the one piece of our work the whole city drives past.
Round Table India’s name sits on the island, which is rather the point — publicity for the movement, paid for in gardening.
Who we build with
The Table does not do this alone.
A Table of twenty cannot run a construction project, a health camp and a blood drive at once. These are the organisations that make each of them work.
Bridge The Gap Foundation
Implementation partner on our school builds. Beyond the building, they train the teaching and non-teaching staff in modern classroom technique — so the room and the teaching improve together.
Arihant Multispeciality Hospital
Our community-service partner for medical camps, from the school health check-ups to the camp at Shri Maheshwar Vaanprastha Aashram.
Jeevan Jyoti Blood Bank
Runs the collection at our blood donation camps, including the city-wide drive this September.
Co.So — Cocktails & Socials
Hosts Azaadi ki Thaali, the Independence Day brunch that raised ₹1.4 lakh for education in its first year.
Corporate CSR has been paying for these classrooms for years — P&G sponsored a new wing at the Parvati Nagar school as far back as 2011. The two-classroom block at Jeevan Shikshan Vidyalaya, Untkhana was inaugurated in 2018 by Bajaj Auto’s CSR Director, and the Sukali and Nagazari builds were funded through a mix of CSR contributions, company donations and community crowdfunding.
The Table also works alongside Nagpur Arthurs Round Table 180, Nagpur Spirits Round Table 258, Nagpur Tigers Round Table 299 and Nagpur Ladies Circle 50 — the five of us have run everything from Project VAAYU to this year's blood drive together.
2020–21
When the city shut down.
Building classrooms assumes there are children in them. In the lockdown there were none — so the Table turned to the people the shutdown hit hardest: migrant workers, slum dwellers and daily-wage earners who lost their livelihoods overnight and had no safety net to fall back on. Tablers cooked, packed and delivered food, week after week, for as long as it was needed. Round Table India recognised the work with four Area awards.
When the second wave filled the hospitals in May 2021 the Table went where the shortages were. Alongside Nagpur Arthurs Round Table 180, Nagpur Spirits Round Table 258, Nagpur Tigers Round Table 299 and Nagpur Ladies Circle 50, it put twelve BiPAP machines into Government Medical College — a ₹8.53 lakh order paid in full and in advance, because the supplier would not hold stock otherwise. The five bodies raised it between them under Round Table India’s Project Heal and Area III’s Project VAAYU.
A month later a further BiPAP machine and 10,000 masks went to the Police Hospital at Tekanaka through the office of the Superintendent of Police, Nagpur Rural — ₹1.46 lakh, drawn from Area III’s Crypto Relief fund. Earlier, in May, 50 litres of hand sanitiser had gone to the MIDC Police Station, paid for by one of the Table’s own Square Legs. The police were working through the wave with very little; almost nobody was resupplying them.
The BiPAP handover was carried by Lokmat Samachar, Navbharat, Tarun Bharat, National Sandesh and Yugdharm.
Blood was the other shortage. With people unable or afraid to travel, stocks at the city’s banks fell away — so the Table took the collection to the donors instead, sending doctors into people’s homes and tying up with blood banks and housing societies where a dozen donors could be found in one place. Seven gave on the first day; some fifty were booked within the week. Much of the work was persuasion: health officials had confirmed there was no risk of infection from transfusion, and the campaign said so plainly — donating blood is safe. The Times of India covered it.
Earlier in the first lockdown, working through the state excise department, the Table had taken 70 litres of hand sanitiser to Hingna police station along with 150 kg of rice, 30 kg of pulses and 24 litres of cooking oil for distribution among the poor.
It is the same five organisations, five years on, who are running this September’s blood donation drive together.
Recognition
Awards from Round Table India.
| Year | Level | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2023–24 | Area 3 | Twinkler Gold Award — presented at the Area 3 AGM, Gurugram |
| 2023–24 | Area 3 | Publicity — Bronze |
| 2023–24 | Area 3 | Certificates of Merit — Inspiration, and Projects |
| 2023–24 | Area 3 | 100% LMF Table Award |
| 2022–23 | National | National Publicity Recognition, Q2 |
| 2021–22 | National | Special Projects Recognition |
| 2021–22 | Area 3 | Best CSR Contributions — Silver |
| 2021–22 | Area 3 | Best Funds Raised — Silver |
| 2021–22 | Area 3 | Best Table — Silver |
| 2021–22 | Area 3 | Best Table Treasurer — Silver |
| 2021–22 | Area 3 | Outstanding Convenor — Bronze |
| 2020–21 | Area 3 | Recognised for the Table’s lockdown relief work |
| 2019–20 | Area 3 | Internal Extensions — Platinum |
| 2019–20 | Area 3 | Best Publicity — Gold |
| 2019–20 | Area 3 | Best Secretary — Gold |
| 2019–20 | Area 3 | Community Service Activity — Silver |
| 2019–20 | Area 3 | Twinkler Activities — Bronze |
| 2019–20 | Area 3 | Inter-Table Fellowship — Special Mention |
| 2018–19 | Area 3 | Special Recognition for the Table’s work through the year |
| 2016 | National | Three awards at Round Table India’s 55th AGM, Bengaluru |
| 2016 | National | Six awards at Round Table India’s 54th AGM, Surajkund |
| 2015 | Area 3 | Eight awards at the 36th Area 3 AGM, Goa |
With thanks
The people and companies who built these schools.
Every project on the ledger was paid for by someone who decided a village school was worth their money. Some are companies giving through CSR, some are families giving in a parent’s memory, some are fellow Tables. Their names are on the school walls; they belong here too.
- Excel Control Linkage Pvt. Ltd.
- Precision Drawell Pvt. Ltd.
- Malu Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
- Spacewood Furnishers Pvt. Ltd.
- Pelican Planners & Developers
- Replay International Pvt. Ltd.
- GMG Tecno Trades Pvt. Ltd.
- Divyansh Steel Pvt. Ltd.
- Vijayawargi Engineers
- Hira Food Products
- Saurabh Dall Industries
- Amitasha Enterprises
- Aligned Studios LLP
- Advait
- Avanti Institute of Cardiology
- Novasys — Shri Anant Agrawal
- Nagpur Ladies Circle
- Madras Anchorage Round Table 100
- Tr. Gaurav Gupta, WWRT 375
- Shri Vimal Agrawalla & Family
- Shri Rahul Mahindra Gugaliya & Family
- Shri Jugalkishor Agrawal
- Shri Chandrakumar Gupta
- Shrimati Vandana Kiran Shah
- Shrimati Neeta Gupta
- Late Shri Bansilalji & Smt. Databai Patni
- Late Shri Chandmal B. Vijaywargi
- Late Shri Shrinath Ramnarayan Sharma
- Late Shri Hitendrakumarji Ruia
And those who gave in kind: Sq. Leg. Rahul Soni, who sent stationery for a hundred and fifty children and gave through the lockdown; Dr Mahurkar, whose office gave the table tennis table at Sukali; Spacewood, for cupboards, bookcases and tables; the VNIT Alumni Association, for the lockdown kitchens; and a donor in Germany who sent €600 to a school he will probably never see.
Donors to Nagpur Round Table 83’s Freedom Through Education projects. If you have supported a build and are not listed, please tell us — we would rather fix it than leave you out.
Sponsor the next classroom.
Companies fund our blocks through CSR; families sponsor rooms in memory of a parent. Either way, the plaque goes on the wall and the children get the room.