Your Story | This Bengaluru NGO encourages learning by improving the infrastructure of government schools

A 2009 report by the Central Statistical Institute of India highlighted that India has close to 3.3 million registered NGOs, meaning there is one NGO for every 400 Indian citizens. Around the same time, Bengaluru residents Ramesh Balasundaram and Binu Verma had decided to quit their corporate jobs to start their own NGO. While competing with another NGO was an option, the husband-wife duo decided that it would be better to complement another’s efforts. They set up Bal Utsav in 2009