Making a difference with Education - Jamnalal Bajaj Seva Trust

The Bajaj Group has made a positive impact on peoples lives with focused efforts in diverse areas like education, healthcare, rural development, economic independence, social and cultural welfare and environment protection. However, the Group strongly believes that it has a lot more to contribute in its journey of altruistic pursuits.

• Providing financial aid for coaching underprivileged children who aspire to join India's premier engineering education centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
• Upgrading Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in Pune, Pantnagar and Aurangabad and donating used machinery to ensure better training and job orientation
• Promoting education of girl child from scheduled castes and tribes in the Thane district and ensuring that they don't drop out of school
• Organising additional study classes with the help of teachers and volunteers for students who can't cope with their studies
• Donating funds to establish 4 Chair Professorships at IIT - Powai, the highest honour for faculty members for their contribution to research and teaching
• Planning and supporting the establishment of the Rahul Bajaj Innovation Centre by IIT - Powai

Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Backbay Reclamation - Mumbai

Shaping global professionals through the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS)
JBIMS was founded by the University of Mumbai in collaboration with the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University with donation from the Jamnalal Bajaj Seva Trust. Here students are groomed into well rounded management thinkers and practitioners through an in-depth curriculum and mind-stimulating co-curricular activities. Even the institute's library is a perennial fount of knowledge with a collection of over 40,000 books including classics and latest writings by management gurus. Students gain so much from the institute that they are moved to reciprocate. The two classrooms revamped by its alumni stand testimony to that.
The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) takes pride in its Indian roots while readying management professionals to take on global challenges. Established in 1965, the institute gave India its first full time 2-year Masters Programme in Management Studies (MMS). Admired as one of the oldest business schools in India, JBIMS ranks as one of the top 25 business schools in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Jankidevi Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JDBIMS), Santacruz - Mumbai

Educating and empowering women with the Jankidevi Institute of Management Studies (JDBIMS)
Jankidevi Bajaj was a visionary who firmly believed that education had the power to effect gender equality. It is only appropriate that an institute that transforms women into management professionals is named after her. Established in 1997, Jankidevi Bajaj Institute of Management Studies is a centre of Management Studies and the Postgraduate Department of Management Education of the SNDT Women's University. The institute offers full-time and part-time Masters Level and Postgraduate Diploma courses in management and prepares women for global careers.

Bajajwadi - The National Guest House, Wardha

Bajajwadi, The National Guest House in Wardha, Maharashtra.

A historic destination, made in the Indian architectural manner, the importance of Bajajwadi is not only that it was the home to Jamnalal Bajaj, but also the fact that when Gandhiji settled in Sevagram, Wardha in Maharashtra, political leaders, freedom fighters, social activists and all sorts of important people came to here to meet Gandhiji. Consequently, the place became the epicenter of Gandhiji's constructive and political activities and also served as the venue for many Congress Working Committee meetings. Jamnalalji used to play host to them. Bajajwadi, then became popular as the National Guest House with eminent leaders visiting and staying here. The meeting place for Gandhian 'revolutionaries', the birthplace of ideas that changed India's destiny, Bajajwadi had a lot happening within its four walls.

(R-L) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Jamnalalji, C. Rajagopalachari and Govind Ballabh Pant in a jovial mood

Sardar Patel, Jamnalalji, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Kamalnayanji have a casual conversation at Bajajwadi, Wardha

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sarojini Naidu, Netaji Subhas Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Acharya Kripalani, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya stayed at Bajajwadi when they visited Wardha. Many of them had specific rooms allotted to them and the rooms are still associated with their names. One wonders how humble the great men of the yore could be as one sees the pictures of all these men and women seated in a pangat on the floor partaking of their meals.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, among other leaders being served at Bajajwadi.

In 1935 a World Peace Conference was held here. The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress held several of its meetings at Bajajwadi. The first draft of the resolution of the 'Quit India Movement' of 1942 was prepared, discussed and passed here. Bajajwadi, is now maintained by the Jamnalal Bajaj Seva Trust. Even today, Bajajwadi reverberates with an aura reminiscent of that era.