Ekal Vidyalayas, or one-teacher schools, are run by the Friends of Tribals Society (FTS), one of the many wings of the Sangh Parivar.
A Committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and headed by Avdhash Kaushal reported on Ekal
Vidyalaya schools in the Singhbhum district in Jharkhand and in the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts in Assam. The
Committee’s report, submitted to the MHRD in 2005, brings out the communalisation that is rampant in these schools and in their curriculum and textual materials.