rural education

Shilpa and Amit Singhal quit their US jobs to start Sitare Foundation, which helps children from low-income households access quality education in private schools, and find opportunities to study abroad.

In the span of one year, Dr Jitendra Kumar Soni, District Collector in Nagaur, Rajasthan, ensured that 3,068 schools had a working electricity connection.

As part of the SBI Youth for India Fellowship, Lakshmi Nair moved to Satbunga, a remote village located in Nainital district in Uttarakhand to work with the Central Himalayan Rural Action Group. Here's her story.

The unique initiative, within just one year of launch, has registered more than 11,000 teachers who are helping over 15,000 students continue their education.

Prabhat Saxena from Uttar Pradesh started his NGO, Srijan Ek Soch, in 2015 to help underprivileged students seek the same quality education and holistic development that one finds in schools in urban areas

The community library at Cheruia was open to the public in the first week of September and it has over 600 books - 200 educational books and 400 storybooks

Seeing underprivileged students hunched up over their notebooks, Eshan Sadasivan, knew that they were damaging their eyes as well as their spine. So the IIT alumnus came up with a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem!

The edutech startup has impacted 850 students (including children and elderly), 30 teachers, and eight villagers-turned-social entrepreneurs. Moreover, it has conducted around 3,500+ hours of online live classes.

Under a fellowship programme started by Barefoot college, recently graduated people from urban spaces are introduced to the grassroots realities of rural education and allowed to impart education with a different approach

Despite having a stable and respectable career in the Indian Air Force, Prakash decided to fulfill his dream of opening a school to provide quality education in his village in Bihar