Upanagar Shikshan Mandal (USM) is a not-for-profit educational trust, with over 60 years of
committed service and a singular mission – ‘Education for All’ with a special focus towards the underprivileged and deprived students. The USM Community has been dedicated to this cause since 1956. The small selfless thought of our founding fathers – to provide essential education at minimal cost, to children from households with meagre resources, while imbibing civic values – has taken root. Hundreds of thousands of students from USM and their families have been able to step out of abject poverty to live a better life and become upstanding, functioning, and productive members of society.
Witnessing firsthand the difference we can make to a family unit and through them to the society at large, helps us continue to keep these underprivileged and deprived kids on the forefront of all our decision making. This moral compass has been and shall continue to be our guiding force.
Over the years, Upanagar Shikshan Mandal has formed several institutes that would provide a good quality education to the students from Kindergarten to Professional Education. Here is a list of the institutes that are a part of the USM family:
1) Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture & Environmental Studies
2) Vidyanidhi Infotech Academy
3) Vidyanidhi J.H. Shah Institute of Computer Science
4) Vidyanidhi Junior College of Science
5) Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Junior College of Commerce
6) Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Junior College of Vocational Studies
7) Vrajlal Parekh Vidyanidhi High School (English)
8) Vrajlal Parekh Vidyanidhi High School (Marathi)
9) Durga Prasad Vidyanidhi Primary English School
10) Shree Siddhi Vinayak Vidyanidhi Shishu Mandir
11) R.C. Valia Lions Juhu Vidyanidhi Balkunj Preprimary English School
12) Vidyanidhi Balwadi Preprimary Marathi School
13) Ratra Vidyalaya, Andheri
14) Vikas Ratra Vidyalaya, Santacruz