Edu-Talks With Shilpa Singhal

Transforming Lives in Sitare Foundation.

- Shilpa Singhal

Sitare Foundation, a not-for-profit organization aims to educate talented underprivileged children, enabling them to gain admission into renowned colleges and institutions in India and the USA. Shilpa Singhal, a Physicist and Computer Scientist with degrees from State University of New York (Binghamton) and Cornell University, is the Founder of Sitare Foundation along with her husband Amit Singhal. Shilpa talks about the Foundation's mission of transforming fifty thousand lives through education by 2050.

Please take us through the journey of Sitare Foundation.

My husband Amit and I have always felt compelled to give back to society. This, in 2016, led to the establishment of our charitable endeavour for educating bright underprivileged children, Sitare Foundation. We collaborated with a school in Jodhpur and during our initial year itself, we had 250 students who came to take the entrance exam. We have spread our presence across Jodhpur, Jaipur, Ajmer in Rajasthan as well as in Indore and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. This year itself, we had about 65,000 registrations for our annual entrance exams.