The Lokmanya Tilak Vidyamandir, Chikalgaon, is an educational institution drawing from Tilak’s thoughts that education is the only foolproof path to development. Set up in 1982, the Trust runs a day-boarding and residential school for children from in and around Chikhalgaon village. The Loksadhana Trust runs a primary and a secondary school as well as a junior college and a vocational training institute within its Chikalgaon campus. The primary school employs various experimental education techniques like games-based learning models, an open classroom concept, bag-less schooling etc. while the secondary school incorporates vocational training and rural development workshops into its educational framework.