Pratham Rajasthan started its operations in 2001 when the Janshala Program of Government of Rajasthan invited Pratham to help organize the Bridge Courses for mainstreaming the large numbers of Out of School Children. Pratham started functioning in the slums of Jaipur and later expanded to the slums of Jodhpur, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Udaipur, Bikaner, Baharatpur and Rajsamand. We have also gone further to 17 Districts through Read India.
The key programs being implemented in Rajsthan include:

• Direct programs: Balwadis, Learning support classes and librares are running in 100 bastis reaching approximately 2500 children.
   
• Read India : was implemented through a government partnership program for Std 1&2 in all government schools in 14 districts. The program is running in 15,000 villages. 
   
   
• National Institute of Open Schooling : Pratham is working as an accredited examination board for the open basic education program under NIOS. This program is for children who either have dropped out of school or who have never been to school and are still like to study further though they cannot attend regular schools because of multitude of practical forces.
   
• Child Labour Programme (CLP): With a vision ‘No Child labour of any form’ Pratham Rajasthan is continuously tracking the Child labour along with rescue and rehabilitation follow up. Pratham is proactively working towards synergizing NCLP and SSA provisions tofree child labours from clutches of employers and bringing them to Education Net. Residential Bridge course in Rajsamand district for child labourers rescued from Surat textile market is one such example.
   
• IBM Kid smart Project: KidSmart is IBM's comprehensive Learning Program designed to give preschool children a technology boost to their learning. The program utilizes effective, up-to-date hardware, software and educational materials to give young children an enriched stimulation environment. Specially designed child friendly computer units called "Young Explorer Units” with colourful furniture, pre loaded with age appropriate software and educational materials are provided to participating schools.
   
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: This programme is being implemented through Library1 channel in Rajasthan with the financial support of OXFAM NOVIB and technical support from WPF (Netherlands). Pratham is following the IM protocol to mainstream HIV/AIDS, gender and sexual health and rights education. The duration for pilot phase of project is for 2 years that spans over January 2007 to March 2009.