Alwar’s Mewat region in Rajasthan bordering Haryana at a distance of 80 Km from Delhi, a known pocket of poverty and backwardness in the country, of late was in news for cyber financial frauds taught and executed in an organized manner. While it may have brought more notoriety to the area and brought a welcome focus on dropouts and out …
Those 30-50 minutes of commute by children from home to school and then back to home on the school bus keeps every parent literally on tenterhooks. Many a times, the unexpected breakdowns, weather conditions or snarls not only raises the anxiety bar but even leads to heated exchanges between parents and drivers, helpers or in-charge teachers. Often seen as a …
Scholarships are perhaps as old as the civilization itself. An act of empathy for a stranger by a benevolent giver has transformed millions of lives through the ages. In our own country, in modern times, we know some of the finest Presidents to scientists, leaders in various fields are tales of ordinary lives turned into extraordinary successes thanks to somebody …
Ten years ago as India celebrated the year 2012 as the year of mathematics in honor of 125th birth anniversary of Ramanujan, Alladi Krishnaswami, a leading Ramanujan scholar and professor of mathematics at the University of Florida (USA) who was also the Associate Editor of Notices of the American Mathematical Society and the founder editor of The Ramanujan Journal (published …
Noida-based Sampark Foundation (esb. 2005), is a prominent nonprofit organization working with eight state governments in India to transform basic education of 20 million school children through a set of frugal classroom innovations and teacher enablement. This large-scale learning/teaching transformation is demonstrating its promise by significantly arresting the dropout rates and improving learning outcomes in districts of its operation and …
Pune-based VOPA (Vowels of the People Association) set up in 2018 as a nonprofit social enterprise, metamorphosed into a hugely successful edtech solutions provider post 2020 with its impactful response to schooling disruption from Covid pandemic. Its V-School App, launched as a result, has been downloaded by more than 3 million students and 40 thousand teachers across Maharashtra, while its …
