The Trust was founded in November 2004 as a registered society and trust under the prevailing rules by Dr. M.A. Zahir and Dr. Zafar Zahir as Zayn Educational Trust. The main objective of the trust is to further the cause of professional education and skill development through serving the less privileged communities in professional education, health care, rural development and creating livelihood opportunities.
The Trust provides professional education through its two institutes – Synetic Business School and Synergy Institute of Management, Technology and Arts – undertakes consultancy services that help in Professionalizing MSME, conducts various training and coaching workshops, organizes free healthcare campaigns with focus on female health and hygiene. In the field of community development, the focus is on Free Medical camps and educational scholarships to the economically weaker sections.
Zayn Trust is a full Non-Profit Trust registered with NITI AYOG, Government of India under UID PB/2017/0163733 with trust members from across businesses and professionals of Punjab. The Trust through its unit SBS College is also a Participating Institute of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan under the Ministry of Human Resource Development with IIT Delhi and regional nodal agency NITTR, Chandigarh sponsoring rural development and employment generation initiatives in villages around its campus since 2018.
Zayn Educational Trust is established on fundamentals of imparting quality education through a purpose-built residential campus; hiring experienced and highly qualified faculty; having a state-of-the-art library; offering knowledge-based consultancy support to local industry and organizing entrepreneurship and leadership development workshops and CSR activities as enumerated above.
SBS is an autonomous and privately funded institution – a voluntary collaboration of academicians, industry, and practicing managers/professionals. This is an opportunity for you to be a part of this dream and contribute to this endeavor through a series of funding options that will help SBS in:
- Completion of the academic building, equipping the library, installing IT infrastructure.
- Developing Centers of Excellence
- Creating Chairs for eminent academicians
- Hosting Lecture Series by world-renowned speakers and academicians
- Awarding perpetual Scholarship schemes for meritorious students
- Organizing Management Contests and Case Study program
- Sponsoring Student from underprivileged sections of society
You can be part of this societal goal, by funding the activities at SBS in several ways:
- By ear-marked donation for a specific activity such as the building of Auditorium, Canteen, Student Common Room, etc.
- By the creation of endowment funds for scholarships, academic chairs, etc.
- By general donations that go to the SBS corpus fund to be used for students welfare, improving infrastructure, and inviting foreign faculty.
The facility developed with the funds donated by you to SBS may be named after the donor’s company name/brand name or any individual name as wished by the donor. For further detail please contact the Managing Trustee at zafar.zahir@sbs.ac.in
Zayn Educational Trust, established in November 2004 – as an NGO Non-Profit Trust – has expanded its scope beyond professional management education and undertakes various social causes such as free medical camps, empowerment programs for teenage females, providing a scholarship to lower-income category students, members of under privileged sections of society, etc. under the leadership of its new Chairperson Dr. Ghazala Qadri, BUMS, Fellow of Applied Nutrition and Alternative Therapy Expert.
