About Nehru Bal Samiti (NBS)
Nehru Bal Samiti (NBS) is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1963 by Mr. S.P. Govil. NBS works for the welfare, education, and empowerment of underprivileged children, youth and women in urban India. The organization focuses on providing support and opportunities to deprived sections of society living in urban slums and rehabilitation colonies, as well as economically and socially backward areas.
Our Mission
Empowerment through Education
Supporting Underprivileged Communities
Enabling Sustainable Development
Our Story
In 1963, Mr. S.P. Govil had a vision to create a brighter future for underprivileged children, youth, and women in urban India. He founded Nehru Bal Samiti (NBS) with the goal of providing opportunities for education and empowerment to these individuals. The organization began as a small community-based initiative but quickly gained support and recognition for its efforts.
As NBS grew, it expanded its programs to include healthcare and economic development in order to provide a comprehensive approach to improving the overall quality of life for the communities it served.
One of the most notable accomplishments of NBS is its flagship event, the Bal Mela. This event was inaugurated by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1963, on Universal Children’s Day. The Bal Mela was first a one-day, 3-hour-long event, but it has since grown to be a meaningful exercise for flowering the creative faculties in painting, toy making, original poem recitation, spot essay/story writing, and display of children’s talent in performing arts like classical solo and folk dances, solo vocal and instrumental music, declamation, presentation of skits on environmental and economic/social issues, and a fancy dress competition on the works and lives of great litterateurs, social reformers, freedom fighters, and eminent public figures. By far, Bal Mela was participated in by about 20,000 child artists from Delhi and neighboring towns, symbolizing a new effort of cultural integration through intellectual pursuits, recreational input of joy rides, and magic/puppet shows during the interaction and exposure to learn from each other’s Bal Mela performances.
Over the years, NBS has made efforts to expand its reach to nearby states such as U.P., Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. Through these efforts, NBS continues to make a positive impact on the lives of underprivileged children, youth, and women in urban India.
Today, NBS continues to be a national-level, multifaceted, and multidimensional voluntary organization working for the welfare and proper development of the children, the youth, and the women, with a focus on the deprived sections living in urban slums/rehabilitation colonies and economically and socially backward areas, with a view to bringing about a qualitative change in their living and working environment.