The National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) is a platform that brings together Budget Private Schools (BPS) from across the country to give them a unified voice to address their concerns about regulatory challenges and to facilitate their quality improvement. As of today, NISA represents 20 states, 41 state Associations, 55000 Schools, 22 Million Children. NISA is striving for a systemic change with its focus on building a strong platform for creating awareness around BPS. It aspires to achieve policy change and improve school quality through: 1. Advocate the immediate concerns of low-fee and budget private schools via the media and other channels to build evidence for their relevance. 2. Create an ecosystem for school Quality Improvement by partnering with different organisations working in the education space. What we do? In order to create an enabling ecosystem for budget private schools to improve accessibility, affordability and quality of education for the economically weaker sections of the society, NISA engages with stakeholders to: • Enhance image and voice of budget private schools through access to media and help them build evidence through systematic linkages with academia. �� Bring together different stakeholders including service providers, education experts, investors, financial institutions, thought leaders, education service providers, principals of affordable school, proprietors and association heads. • Conduct workshops and trainings on leadership management, classroom teaching techniques and other quality education modules with budget private schools. • provide legal aid via a network of lawyers across the country. • Enable BPS to have better access to credit and other services at affordable rate. • Be an access point for relevant information for BPS.