Education

Uttam Teron started teaching underprivileged children with just Rs 800. Today, he runs Parijat Academy — a non-profit school that teaches nearly 400 kids from 20 villages for free.

Itching to return home from the US to do good work, Sunny Singh founded RoundGlass Foundation, which works towards the holistic development of Punjab through education, skill training, environment conservation, and more.

Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar, through his programme Operation Mukti, has rescued and rehabilitated thousands of child beggars in the state The children, teachers, and the IPS officer share what this transformation has led to.

The Aided Higher Primary School was the first school in Savanalu, a village in Karnataka, and has transformed generations through quality education. Here’s how you can help them to continue their endeavour.

Uddeshya Sachan's Gurukulam is a Khushiyon Wala School that has helped 400 kids learn life lessons along with music, math and more.

Professor Ritika Mahajan shares the finding of a survey conducted in Jaipur and NCR to understand how each education board — CBSE, ICSE, IB, etc — offers something different, and on what parameters parents pick ‘the right’ choice.

Students of Class 8 of Zilla Parishad School in Nande village of Maharashtra worked in the Amazon Future Engineer (AFE) Lab set up by the Pi Jam Foundation in partnership with Amazon. Here’s how they built a weather station to help farmers in the area.

Franz Gastler founded Yuwa, an organisation that uses sports to fuel social development in Jharkhand. He shares how this has helped girls stay in school, study abroad, build careers and more.

The Better India speaks to Shankar Maruwada, CEO and Co-Founder of EkStep Foundation and member, National Steering Committee for the National Curriculum Frameworks, to gauge what India's policymakers have in store for its children.

ASHA NGO in Chennai, in collaboration with Amazon’s Future Engineers Programme, is helping children across the city’s government schools learn the ropes of robotics, computers, and more.