Six Years of Sterlite EdIndia Foundation
In a sector as vast and layered as education, EdIndia has taken the long road, walking beside pre-service teachers, working behind data dashboards, and investing in relationships that last far beyond pilot projects and quarterly reports. This year, we reached a new milestone, six years have been fruitfully invested in education development, in trainings, building partnerships, expanding to six states in India now.
Our work has so far reached almost 2,00,000 teachers and has touched almost 5 million student lives. This has only been possible with our Teachable App and other digital tools, our flagship project made especially for aspiring and practicing teachers. Tech is the way forward and teachable app has been instrumental in teaching to teach and learning to learn.
Sterlite EdIndia Foundation did not set out to fix all these problems. But what it chose to do was something far more grounded, it decided to invest in the people at the heart of the system. Teachers. Administrators. Parents. It saw the enormous promise that lived quietly in every school compound, waiting for support, encouragement, and sometimes just someone who believed change was possible.
Reform do not rely on capacity-building alone. To bridge the gap between data and decision-making, EdIndia runs its Data Analytics Support Program. This initiative helps government departments and education administrators make sense of massive volumes of educational data turning raw numbers into actionable insights.
Dashboards developed under this program have allowed district officers to track school performance, teacher attendance, enrollment trends, and dropout rates in near real time. Data becomes more than a tool; it becomes a language that connects policy to the classroom. The Foundation has helped 913 system-level administrators and 48,027 school-level leaders across 46,486 schools make better, more responsive decisions.
Yet, any educator will say: even well-trained teachers and real-time dashboards mean little if communities don’t feel invested in their local school. That is why EdIndia’s Community Empowerment Program played such a pivotal role in building trust and participation, especially in Tripura, where Mother Groups and Baal Sabhas helped turn schools into shared community spaces. Now, as the program concludes after three years of impactful work, its legacy lives on in the continued participation of families and the shaping of state strategies inspired by the Tripura model. Building on this momentum, EdIndia has shifted focus toward deeper system integration, launching the Institutional Strengthening Program in Rajasthan. This new initiative, in partnership with RSCERT, is working to build academic and strategic leadership within DIETs, co-developing standards, calendars, and research-based resources that can help anchor long-term transformation in teacher education.
Walking the Long Road with Ethos and Values
Beyond programmatic work, what defines the Foundation is its ethos. Every person within the organization is grounded in five core values: innovation, perseverance, respect, integrity, and collaboration. These are not buzzwords pasted on office walls. They show up in the patience with which a program officer reviews lesson plans with a young trainee teacher, in the care taken while translating educational material into local dialects, and in the honest conversations held with state partners when things don’t go as planned.
As India continues to implement the National Education Policy 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework introduced in 2023, organization is playing a crucial role in translating vision into action. National policies often offer the blueprint but it’s through local partnerships, grassroots pilots, and long-term mentoring that these blueprints begin to shape real schools. In states like Rajasthan, Tripura, and Uttarakhand, the Foundation has worked alongside SCERTs and Samagra Shiksha departments to align teacher training content with the new competency-based learning goals. In districts like Dehradun, field teams have supported 250+ school visits, working hand-in-hand with teachers, administrators, and community stakeholders.
Numbers may offer a snapshot, but the real impact lies in the stories. A trainee teacher in Chhattisgarh who passed CTET after three failed attempts, inspired by the mock test support she received. A group of mothers in Tripura who started as kitchen helpers and now actively participate in shaping school improvement plans. These stories don’t always make headlines. But they are the heartbeat of EdIndia’s work.
The Road Ahead
Today, as the Foundation enters its seventh year, there is too much to be done. But it does take a moment to honor the journey so far. From the narrow lanes of rural government schools to the boardrooms of state departments, it has carried one belief consistently that quality education is not a privilege, it’s a promise. In the coming years, Sterlite EdIndia Foundation aims to scale its reach supporting more teacher education institutes, working with more administrators, and expanding its digital platforms to ensure educators and decision-makers have what they need, when they need it. But it will do so while staying rooted in its core strength: listening first, acting mindfully, and building trust from the ground up. The work is far from done. But there is clarity in purpose, depth in approach, and growing conviction that real change in education happens slowly but surely when you put people first.