Mission
To integrate India's knowledge traditions with modern science and turn both into education, innovation and livelihoods for students, teachers, farmers, women, tribal communities and young entrepreneurs.
About BGVU Foundation
A young not-for-profit company in Bhopal that connects India's knowledge traditions, modern science and enterprise.
Where we began
Our story
Bhartiya Gyan Vigyan Evam Udyam Foundation was incorporated on 16 September 2026 and is registered in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. It is licensed under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, the form of non-profit company that must put all its income back into its objects.
We connect three things that usually live apart: India's traditional knowledge, modern science, and enterprise that creates livelihoods. The name already carries the idea. Gyan is knowledge rooted in the Indian Knowledge Systems. Vigyan is science that is tested and evidence-based. Udyam is effort that produces livelihoods.
We are at the start. Our first job is to build programmes that are useful and to show our working in public: what we planned, what we spent and what changed.
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A Bharat where every learner can draw on its own knowledge heritage with scientific confidence, and every good idea has a path to become an enterprise.
What guides us
Our values
- Rooted, not nostalgic.We honour tradition by testing it, not by romanticising it.
- Evidence first.Claims about traditional knowledge are backed by research or labelled as hypotheses.
- Useful over impressive.A programme succeeds when someone earns, learns or builds something afterwards.
- Open hands.We partner with government, universities, industry and communities.
- Accountable.Every rupee serves our objects. We publish what we spend and what changed.
Leadership
Directors
Ratnesh Kumar Singh
Directorनिदेशक
DIN: 11949995
Bio for Ratnesh Kumar Singh (2–3 lines): background, and role at the foundation.
Divya Singh
Directorनिदेशक
DIN: 11949996
Bio for Divya Singh (2–3 lines): background, and role at the foundation.Write to the directors: director@bgvufoundation.com
Legal identity
| Legal name | Bhartiya Gyan Vigyan Evam Udyam Foundation |
|---|---|
| Type | Not-for-profit company licensed under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 |
| Incorporated | 16 September 2026 |
| CIN | U85306MP2026NPL086988 |
| PAN | AAPCB1558E |
| NGO DARPAN ID | MP/2026/1215667 |
Work with us
Partner with us
Schools and universities, CSR teams and government departments, researchers and volunteers: there is a place for each of you in this work.