MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

The name of the Foundation shall be the MAULANA AZAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
The Registered Office of the Foundation shall remain in the State of Delhi and at present it is at Social Justice Service Centre, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi – 110 055.
OBJECTS:
The Foundation shall be a voluntary, non-political, non-profit making social service organization established to promote education amongst educationally backward sections of society. The aims and objects for which this Foundation is established are:-
to remove educational backwardness, and create awareness about the national ideals of JUSTICE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY AND DEMOCRACY, SECULARISM and SOCIALISM;
to formulate and implement educational schemes and plans for the benefit of the educationally backward minorities in particular and weaker sections in general;
to promote research and encourage other efforts designed to mould educational policies of the STATE for the benefit of the educationally backward minorities;
to establish Chairs in selected Indian and foreign Universities for researches into the life and contributions of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad especially in the context of secularism and pluralism;
to establish residential schools especially for girls in order to provide modern education to educationally backward minorities, preferably in or around, urban, semi urban and rural areas;
to assist and support, and evaluate from time to time the implementation of the National Policy on Education in an effective manner, especially in regard to its provisions relating to the educationally backward minorities;
to provide financial and other aid or consultancy service to institutions/ organizations engaged in the promotion of education among the educationally backward minorities;
to function as a data bank on education and to establish Information and Counselling Centres;
to undertake preparation and publication of materials including journals and other periodicals and preparation and dissemination of material for mass media;
to collaborate with and other Societies/organizations pursuing the objective similar to those of the Foundation;
to arrange for providing coordination and imparting training in the relevant skills and in entrepreneurship to artisans' children and help them in setting up self-employment ventures;
to open, run and assist Libraries and Book Banks;
to create awareness about the problems of the weaker sections especially the educationally backward minorities and to give appropriate advice to Government;
to undertake all such activities as are not specifically mentioned in the aims and objects listed above, but which promote these objectives.