Vidya Poshak, India, is a registered Non Government Organization (NGO), serving education community. The organization was started by a group of compassionate people in the year 2001 at Dharwad with the aim of supporting financially challenged bright students. 
Though Vidya Poshak started with the aim of supporting the students financially, many other programs evolved during the journey. Some of the major projects are Nurture Merit, Graduate Finishing School, Centre for Development of Soft Skills and School Leadership Development Program.
Our team consists of dedicated people aiming at the betterment of the student. This team ranges from board of directors making important decisions to volunteers implementing and supporting the motive.
This program aims at nurturing the merit of students from disadvantaged families to enable them to realize their actual potential.
Financial Assistance of Rs 1223.96 lakhs INR disbursed to 12938 students through Nurture Merit Program.
4778+ students trained in 98 Residential Bridge Camps bring change in professional and personal life.
Graduate Finishing School (GFS) is a unique social initiative training program with an objective of providing an effective training to the graduates to secure employment and thus to make them contributive force to the society.
1500+ students trained and placed successfully through four Graduate Finishing School centers till date.
GFS is founded by a team of professionals with decades of experience in corporate and social sector. The course is carefully designed by experts to fulfill the specific needs of the industry. We have a core team of highly qualified and experienced soft skills professionals, working professionals, industrialists, technocrats and computer professionalsz.
During the process of Vidya Poshak´s endeavor to empower the student community it has been realized that the students are facing difficulty in accepting the challenges of the present day fast track developments owing to lack of adequate soft skills.
Though the need of soft skills development has been widely appreciated by the educational institutes, lack of quality and cost effective training modules, and non-availability of resource persons has remained a concern. In order to cater to this demand Vidya Poshak launched Center for Development of Soft Skills (CDOSS) in the year 2008
Education Loan Awareness and Advocacy Program (ELAAP)
Education is central to human resources development and empowerment in any country. In India it is specially so considering the large population of youth that is our demographic dividend. In order to enable this youth population to acquire the technological and professional skills, Government of India has formulated a policy of providing Education Loan and Loan for Vocation Education and Training. These endeavours need propagation to the corners of the country in order to succeed. Vidya Poshak is proud to launch the Education Loan Awareness and Advocacy Program to enable this propagation.
In the drive towards Universalization of Quality Elementary Education, there have been many accomplishments. Unfortunately quality itself has not been one of them and remains a major challenge. The school is at the heart of quality education. It is universally accepted that the primary education becomes detrimental in building strong and contributory members of the society.
Prof R.N.Tikot has done Post Graduation in Statistics and PG Diploma in Computer Applications. He has been serving the student community for more than 3 decades. He is also a well known student counselor and career guidance expert. He is committed to all round development of students.
