Education

Focussing on ‘late bloomers’, the initiative works in close collaboration with local government schools and incorporates various unconventional teaching methodologies to push even the late learners into the mainstream.

Sandeep Desai, a former marine engineer and academician, is a resident of Goregaon and the famous Mumbai man who begged on local trains to start rural English medium schools across villages in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar.

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Promoting and making such innovative projects accessible to the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population, NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum (NSIF), a ‘Tech for Good’ platform, is bridging the gap and fostering inclusive growth.

NGO Plan India made India’s first-ever gender vulnerability index (GVI), which is expected to help figure out the challenges women face concerning education, health, poverty and safety. The results will assist policy makers to mark out priorities.

From proper walled compounds to the installation of urinals and water tank, one government school in Vellore had its share of refurbishment recently, all thanks to the school’s headmaster.

They came across a building that used to be a drinking club frequented by local men, and transformed it into a library for children.

Eldest of four siblings, Pramod comes home every Diwali to lend his father a hand in the family business of making lamps.

Stay away from negative vibes and people, says Lt. Gen Zameer Uddin Shah, who is equal parts soldier and academic.

Owned by Devanarayanan Potty, who is a head priest under the Devaswom Board, the house probably has more books and manuscripts than the entire population of Sreevaraham.