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15 published pieces
PM Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan — Making Rural India Digitally Literate
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Central and State Scholarships for SC/ST Students — Keeping Marginalised Students in School and College
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Eklavya Model Residential Schools — Quality Education for Tribal Children, In Their Own Environment
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Samagra Shiksha — India's Unified School Education Programme, From Pre-School to Class 12
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NIPUN Bharat Mission — Making Every Child in Odisha Read and Count by Grade 3
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XSEED/iDiscoveri Education — The Curriculum That Proved Children Learn When Teachers Are Prepared
The dominant assumption in Indian school reform is that the problem is structural: not enough schools, not enough teachers, not enough buildings, not enough technology. These are real gaps. But they leave unexplained a more uncomfortable problem: schools exist, teachers are prese...
Barefoot College — The Solar Mama Who Never Went to School
Magan Kanwar was a sanitation worker in Rajasthan. She could not read or write. She had no formal education, no technical training, no credential of any kind. She came to Barefoot College in Tilonia and left six months later as a solar engineer — capable of building, installing,....
Eklavya India Foundation — The First Door Nobody Opens for You
There is a particular kind of educational failure that never shows up in dropout statistics: the student who stays in school, passes every exam, reaches the gate of a good university — and then stops. Not because she failed. Because no one she has ever met has been to university....
Agastya International Foundation — The Mobile Lab That Arrived When No Teacher Could
In a government school in rural Karnataka, a science teacher stands at a blackboard and describes how electricity works. The description is accurate. The students take notes. The textbook is open. And virtually no one in the room has ever touched a wire, a battery, or a light bul...
Pratham — The Simplest Question in Education, Asked at Scale
In 1994, Pratham began in Mumbai as a small programme to bring education to children in the city's slums. The founding question was straightforward: are children in schools actually learning anything? The answer, when they began systematically checking, was disturbing. Children w...
Gender-Responsive Education in Tribal Schools — What Odisha Is Piloting and What NGOs Can Do
The Breakthrough gender equity curriculum — based on the "Mann Deshi" model developed with J-PAL researchers — is an interactive, discussion-based curriculum that challenges gender norms through scenario-based learning, role play, and peer discussion. It does not lecture students...
Secondary School Dropout Prevention in Tribal Odisha — Catching the Fall Before It Happens
These are not abstract statistics. They represent the point in an adolescent's life — Class 9 or Class 10, between 14 and 16 years of age — where a combination of learning failure, economic pressure, family expectation, cultural friction with the school environment, and the absen...
School Management Committees — Making the Accountability Structure Work
The Right to Education Act 2009, Sections 21 and 22, mandates that every government and government-aided school establish an SMC. The mandate includes:
Teaching at the Right Level — How to Implement TaRL in Tribal Schools
Most primary school children in Odisha — particularly in tribal districts — sit in a Class 4 classroom but cannot read a Class 2 text. The formal system keeps promoting them regardless, so by Class 5 they are catastrophically behind, and by Class 8 they have likely dropped out. T...
Education in Odisha: The School Is Full — Now Make It Work
In a primary school in a tribal block in Koraput, a Class 4 student cannot read the words on the page in front of her. She has attended school regularly for four years. She has not been failed — India's education system promotes students automatically regardless of whether they h...