""Apply for ESSA Scholarship 2024-25."" ""Skill Education in APSs under HQ AWES as per the CBSE Guidelines "" The Army Welfare Education Society ( AWES ) is responsible for providing quality education at affordable cost to the wards of army men. Army Pre Primary Schools (APPS ) Background History: With the ever increasing awareness amongst the Army personnel about the need of educating their wards better and breaking up of the joint family system more familiar making into cantonments. To meet the aspirations local formation cdrs started running these small schools in re-appropriated bldgs as a welfare measure. Till 2005 these schools were being run as regimental schools. However in 2005 the Army Pre School Education Council (APEC ... Army Welfare Education Society ( AWES ) established on 29 April 1983, is an apex body which governs Army Public Schools in India. There are 139 Army Public Schools across cantonments and military stations in India, all following NCERT curriculum and affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi. From a modest 20000 students population, Army