COLONEL BAINSLA FOUNDATION is a registered trust founded with a vision to ensure that each and every person is provided with GOOD HEALTH & GOOD EDUCATION. A foundation focused on creating awareness about the importance of education especially for the girl child, of curbing social ills such as child marriages, extravagant weddings, dowry system, etc. and on educating and empowering the youth for towards a bright & vibrant future.
He is a retired Lt. Colonel of the Indian Army. Extremely well read, with a love for music & great liking for gardening & simple rural life. His wife Late Mrs Resham Bainsla has been his pillar of strength in his endeavors.
From the age of 23, Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla has been in the service of the nation. For 3 decades he served in the Indian Army, fighting wars with Pakistan & China in 1962, 1965 & 1971. Post retirement he has been fighting the war against inequality, illiteracy and social backwardness. His mission is to empower the weak, the neglected and the suppressed by providing equal opportunities.
Youngest son of a British Army soldier, born in a remote village of Rajasthan in a region where the occupation of youngmen is either agriculture or military service and where getting an education was a challenge. After completing primary school in the village, travelled to Bharatpur & Hindaun to finish his schooling, and then to Maharajas College at Jaipur for his graduation. Money for schooling / college was always a problem, more so if one gets married at the age of 14-15 years.
In the Army, Colonel experienced respect, equality, dignity and equal opportunities for all without any discrimination – which was not bound to be so outside the military, hence he made it his mission to empower the weak, the neglected and the suppressed.
The Foundation is thankful to the 30 IInd Grade Teachers who have come together and jointly contributed a sum of Rs 50,000 as the first donation.
Post retirement from the military he led a peoples movement for “reservation” in Rajasthan. Through his efforts & continuous struggle, 5 communities comprising of approximately 6 million population are now getting benefit of reservation in educational institutions and government services, the children are getting scholarships and admissions in residential schools and colleges. Many schools, colleges and hostels have been opened to bring good education within reach of the backward and deprived population.
He is also the Chairman of SUYOG, an NGO setup in 2012 which is a group of educated empowered individuals who are carrying forward his mission of empowering the youth to take informed decisions about their career choices and effort required to fulfill them. Till date SUYOG has conducted a large number of motivational seminars in rural areas across 7 states in India.
Building on a lifetime of Military & Public service, Colonel Bainsla established the Colonel Bainsla Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a fair chance to succeed along with a responsibility to act, and that all will do better if all work together. The building blocks of a fair chance to succeed are GOOD HEALTH & GOOD EDUCATION and to give a structured shape to this dream the FOUNDATION works tirelessly.
Together We CAN & We WILL
Mobile : +91 9953786123 E-Mail: info@bainslafoundation.org