| 1931 | Foundation Year The first school in South Rajasthan set the tone for future schools by being secular, coeducational, and uniform. Radical and ahead of its time given the conservative Mewar of 1931. , |
| 1941 | It was the first Basic School of its kind in Rajasthan, designed around Gandhi ji’s idea of schooling: reforming school education, moving it away from white collarism to egalitarianism, erasing mind-hand dichotomy, telling—no hand can work without mind. |
| 1942 | Govindram Seksaria Teachers College was the first teacher training degree college in South Rajasthan. Before GSTC, the teacher got a training certificate. Degree enriched the teacher training. |
| 1944 | Vidya Bhawan Kala Sansthan (Handicraft Institute) trained teachers to teach craft skills to school students. |
| 1956 | Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute got established as part of the Government of India plan to set up degree colleges in Rural India. VBRI now is a post-graduate college. |
| 1956 | Technical Education in India gathered its momentum from 1944 onwards, which witnessed Industrial Training Institutes, Polytechnic Institutes and Engineering Colleges. Vidya Bhawan was part of the technical national education program. |
| 1982 | The training component of the Integrated Child Development Scheme is looked after the wide network of training centres, namely Anganwadi Training Centers (AWTCs), Vidya Bhawan Anganwadi Workers Training Center is one of them. |
| 1984 | Vidya Bhawan Krishi Vigyan Kendra in 1984 was the decision of the National agriculture apex body—the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to integrate farm practice with new findings through field institutions. KVK was the brainchild of Vidya Bhawan Founder President Dr Mohan Sinha Mehta, who proposed it as a national committee chair. |
| 1995 | Vidya Bhawan Education Resource Center came to plug it into Vidya Bhawan experience in the national education discourse, opening a window for two way communication within and outside the organisation. |
| 1997 | Institute of Local Self-government and Responsible Citizenship to reinforce people’s confidence in the democratic processes at the grassroots level by providing requisite skills and sensitisation for good governance and participatory development of elected functionaries, document issues of human rights, gender equity and problems in rural areas. |
| 2001 | Vidya Bhawan Public School started with the idea of reaching children with a meaningful education in English, the second and third language of many children. |
| 2008 | The established Gandhian Institute of Educational Studies was to imbibe Gandhian thoughts and ideas in mainstream teacher education. |
| 2009 | Prakriti Sadhna Kendra came as an environmental centre around Aravali hillocks near Udaipur city. |
