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Vision
Every child in the country has access to high quality education
Mission
To create technology based solutions to impact quality of education at scale
About EdIndia
EdIndia is a section 8 Not for Profit Company that leverages technology and data analytics to create innovative solutions to impact the quality of education at scale. It has been provided incubation support by Sterlite Power Transmission and its group companies.
Our Work
Acknowledging the fact that there are existing barriers to integrate technology within Government system; EdIndia spearheads initiatives that capitalize on modern digital tools, smart classrooms as well as training of teachers in facilitating children to participate better in the education process and realize improved learning outcomes.
EdIndia has been running projects in intersection of Education, Technology and Data Analytics in 100 schools in Rajasthan and 1500 Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) schools in Mumbai, Maharashtra, since 2012. These programs impact more than 3 lakh students
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Pragyan
The Pragyan project in Rajasthan uses technology to aid teacher preparedness and skills to make classroom learning more engaging for the students. In Mumbai, EdIndia supports through its data support projects that provide mobile dashboards to decision makers to make informed academic decisions.
Our Focus
Identify needs
Identify needs for better learning outcomes based on an analysis of secondary data collected periodically by the education system. It provides decision makers with relevant dashboards for informed decision making with the focus on academic trends and patterns.
Leverage technology
Leverage technology to build teacher's facilitation skills to engage students, plan teaching sessions and leverage learning aids for actual and demonstrated improvement in the learning environment
Teacher Support
Develop a repository of 'Mobile First' digital tools with content focused on 'How to do' in vernacular to support teachers to plan and transact teaching plans for engaging and interactive teaching learning process.
Our People
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~ Henry Ford
Sonakshi Agarwal
Founder Director
Sonakshi is passionate about the ways technology can impact education on a larger scale in India. As a Trustee of Sterlite Tech Foundation, Sonakshi had initiated the Foundation’s work in 400 MCGM Schools through the Virtual Classroom Program from 2012-2017 impacting 100,000 children. Currently, she is overseeing the Foundation’s foray into data analytics and creation of innovative tech solutions for teacher capacity building. Sonakshi has completed her Bachelors in Arts in Economics from University of Pennsylvania
Ayan Chatterjee
Head EdIndia
Ayan is an engineer and a post graduate in management. He loves to dabble in technology and spend time on senior citizen causes. Ayan has a mix of corporate and development sector experience spending his earlier years in UN, e-governance and leading rural and social business of HDFC ERGO. He has led the India Operations for “Deworm the World initiative” set up by Noble Winners Esther Duflo and Michael Kramer.
Vijay Roy
Lead, Partnership & Strategy
Vijay has 11 years working experience of understanding and suggesting solutions for non-profit, education, CSR and not-for-profit sector challenges. He has engaged multiple stakeholders including state governments & CSR partners to implement high impact education projects in government run schools across India. His assignments were focused on remedial Education, Teacher Development, School Leadership Training, Spoken English and STEM learning in schools.
Varun Bhamre
Program Lead, Data Support Projects
After MBA & engineering, Varun turned towards the development sector in 2019. His association with data analytics during Management studies and his active involvement for 3 years in teacher training initiatives by reputed CSRs combine to help Varun innovate education through data analytics. Varun has experience liaising with government officials, drafting reports on educational initiatives and handling project implementation.
Pallav Tiwari
Program Lead, Project Pragyan
Pallav is a versatile leader with total work experience of 9 years. Computer Science Engineer by qualification; he joined development sector following the interest and desire to contribute the weaker section of the society. He has demonstrated experience showing his leadership and project management skills. He dived into the education-development sector in 2012, exercising his best in academic content development and teacher training since then.
Vinita Abichandani
Program Lead, Teachable App
Vinita derives her character from her 7 years’ experience in the field of education, studies in literature & public policy and her travel ventures. As a lecturer, she has dealt with English language and literature and research in Environment studies at NIOS schools and college levels. As a teacher educator she has created modules and executed sessions on language pedagogy, teachers’ English proficiency & nature of TLMs post RTE.
