Gandhi Fellowship 2019: Residential Program By Kaivalya Education Foundation

Gandhi Fellowship is a 2-year residential program, initiated by Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF) in support of Piramal Foundation. It is awarded to the inspired and inventive youth from top universities and colleges. The fellows have to work with the primary school headmasters/principals to transform their schools. Gandhi Fellowship was started in 2008 with 11 fellows and has been steadily growing in popularity & number of participants. 

• The interested candidates can be from any field i.e. Applied & Pure Sciences, Commerce and Business, Engineering, Social & Behavioural Science, Maths and Journalism, Humanities, & Liberal Arts, Education, Law, etc. 
• Gandhi Fellowship provides an opportunity where interested people will work on a social problem and learn the system design thinking process i. e. the change in leadership,

Gandhi Fellowship has the following steps

• Registration
• Uploading Resume
• Personal Interview Process
• Essay Type Question
• Online Test

Gandhi Fellowship Dates

Given below are the dates related to Gandhi Fellowship that the candidates to keep in mind

What Work is Allotted to the Fellows of Gandhi Fellowship 

During the Gandhi Fellowship, each fellow has to take care of 5 schools assigned to him/her with the support of 5 primary school headmasters, 50 teachers, 500 children in difficult rural and urban locations.

• They have to put in efforts and ideas on their own for bringing the transformation of their schools.

• The fellows have to develop the necessary 7 competencies of leadership and skills to move into a 10-year journey to impact a million lives.

• Fellows will also learn to figure out their own dreams and will be equipped with the skills to pursue their goals and dreams after the completion of the fellowship.
  • Further, they will get help in finding job opportunities from the placement cell of the Gandhi Fellowship.

Gandhi Fellowship Partners

The Gandhi Fellowship has partnered with

• Funded by: Piramal Foundation, UNICEF, and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, USAID,  Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
• Government partners- Sarv Siksha Abhiyan, State Government of Rajasthan, Surat Municipal Corporation.
• Technical Partners: Harvard Graduate Schools of Education,  Educational Initiatives.
• Other Tie-Ups- Ashoka India, Jodo Gyan, IIM Ahmedabad, Echoing Green, Harvard University

• Based on Gandhi’s principles of “Be the change you wish to see in the world” and his belief in the process of action & reflection and using reflection as a major tool for causing personal & social change, Gandhi fellowship offers guidance to the talented youth towards being actively engaged in solving the myriad problems of country today.

Gandhi Fellowship Batch Sizes

Gandhi Fellowship has been steadily increasing its popularity and the students from Top Colleges & Universities have been a part of it.

Monthly Stipend: During the two years intensive program, fellows will receive the stipend of Rs. 14,000 per  month

• Disbursement of Scholarship: Half of the monthly stipend will be given to the candidate while the other half will be retained as interest-free reserve amount.
  The payment interest-free reserve amount will be made after completion of the fellowship tenure.

• Rent free Accommodation
• Other Allowance
  • Rs. 600 per month for the mobile cost
  • Shared two-wheelers for fellows & reimbursements for official travels.
• Experience Certificate: Two years experience certificate from Gandhi Fellowship.

Gandhi Fellowship: Building Competencies

• Learning: Fellows under the Gandhi Fellowship will get an opportunity to learn the system design change and would use these skills later while working on any other social issue.
• Seven Competencies: While going through the intensive program, fellows will develop the seven competencies
  • Self-Awareness
  • Collaborative Work
  • Excellence
  • Influence without Authority
  • Risk-taking & Entrepreneurial Ability
  • Articulation of Values
  • Articulation of Private Dream

They can apply these learning experiences to solving out other social issues, throughout their career.

• Support from the Placement Cell: The placement cell of the Gandhi Fellowship will help the fellows to find out the job opportunities.

The application process for the Gandhi Fellowship has started and the candidates willing to get the fellowship need to send their Gandhi Fellowship form by following the link given below. There is only an online application procedure for the Gandhi Fellowship and no offline application process. Candidates need to submit the Gandhi Fellowship application form before the last date i.e. 31 March to register themselves for Gandhi Fellowship.

Gandhi fellowship login can be done only after filling the registration form by following the steps given below

Click here to apply for Gandhi Fellowship

Steps for filling Gandhi Fellowship Application Form

• STEP 1: The applicants looking forward to applying for this scholarship have to first fill in the Gandhi Fellowship Application form online and has to submit the following details:
  • Personal details
  • Family Details
  • Education details
  • Extra Curricular Activities
  • Work experience (if any) 
    
    • You can also give a preference for Area of work during fellowship period as rural or urban.
• STEP 2: This step is only for the shortlisted candidates. The candidates will get the access to step 2 of application form with further questions once you are selected in step 1. This review process takes a time of 5-10 days. The applicant would be notified through e-mail.

The candidates applying for the Gandhi Scholarship has to go through a selection process. Gandhi Fellowship has a rigorous 3-level personalized and reflective recruitment process based on the competencies of leadership.

1. Submitting Application Form
2. Telephonic Interview
3. Final Personal Interaction & Evaluation

The candidates should successfully go through the above-mentioned round can apply.

Gandhi Fellowship: 2-year Residential Program

Gandhi fellowship is a 2 years program spread across 4 semesters and in all it has 10 Fellowship Processes.

• Field Support
• Debriefs
• Classroom Training
• Community Immersion
• Public Systems Project
• Curriculum on Leadership
• Curriculum on Fitness
• Learning Journey
• Private Dream Discovery Process
• Collaborative Learning

Each process has a clearly identified goal, which is tied to various competencies so at the end of every process, fellows come together for a four-day period of structured reflection around learning called the PRAP or the Personal Reflection Assessment Process.

• The PRAP helps fellows identify their strengths and areas of development through evaluations and assessment. 

Gandhi Fellowship Program FAQs

In order to clear the doubts of the applicants, we have compiled some of the frequently asked questions on the Gandhi Fellowship. Check it to solve your most common queries related to Gandhi Fellowship

Question 1: What is the Gandhi Fellowship?
Gandhi Fellowship is a 2-year residential Professional Program in Transformation Leadership initiative by Kaivalya Education Foundation(KEF). Through this scholarship, one can support and partner with primary school headmasters in transforming the schools and achieving their desired results. 

Question 2: What exactly happens during the Fellowship?
This fellowship helps a fellow in measuring his/her growth and development. This fellowship helps in building and developing leadership capability of a fellow. There are 13 processes in this fellowship program.

1. Field Support (FS) – For School and Community
2. Classroom Immersion (CRI)
3. Community Immersion (CI)
4. Leadership Curriculum (LC)
5. Monthly Workshops (MW)
6. Boot Camps (BC)
7. Kaun Banega The New Millionaire (KBTNM) -a process set up as a contest with multiple rounds that provides the fellows a platform to explore depths of the problem they are interested in solving and practice pitching the solution to various stakeholders.
8. Learning Journey (LJ)
9. Monthly one-on-one (1:1)
10. Debriefs (DB)
11. Wellness Management (WM)
12. Vipassana
13. Private Dream Articulation (PD)

Question 3: What do fellows have to do in schools?
The fellows have to understand the several aspects of teaching, and learning of our ultimate stakeholder: the child through a first-hand experience of the classroom.

Question 4: How will Gandhi fellowship program benefit the fellows?
This fellowship program helps the fellow in understanding leadership at the grassroots level. It also helps in developing the seven competencies of an individual, namely, Self Awareness, Collaborative Work, Excellence, Influence without Authority, Value Articulation, Risk Taking / Entrepreneurship and Articulation of Private Dream.

Question 5: Do Fellows get holidays? 
Yes, fellows do get holidays. The holidays of fellowship are designed in such a way so that they fit in the school calendar.

Delhi: A 56 Panscheel Enclave, Near Soami Nagar, Bus Stop
New Delhi-110017, Phone: 91 9069143140 

Mumbai: Piramal Tower, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel Mumbai-400 013 Maharashtra

Rajasthan: F 121 Laxmi Niwas, Indira Colony Jhunjhunu- 333001 Rajasthan

North India: Qasim K Naqash +91 8800827862
qasim@gandhifellowship.org

South India: Abhijit Das +91 8051044101
abhijitd@gandhifellowship.org

West India: Abhishek Mishra+91 8000018345
abhishek.mishra@gandhifellowship.org

East India: Pronoma Roy +91 9903895105 
pronoma@gandhifellowship.org