The Education Ministry of Maharashtra and ConnectEd Technologies, an education-technology start-up, launched a campaign, named ‘EkShiksha’ on Thursday. The campaign aims at uniting socially-responsible corporates, NGOs, school managements and grass-root level educators to eliminate the educational inequity and provide world-class education to children studying in rural schools across the state.
Under the aegis of this campaign, rural schools will be equipped with ‘Smart Classroom System’, which is solar-powered, teacher-aid product that works effectively in rural conditions and enables educators to easily integrate tailor-made multimedia educational content into conventional teaching practices.
Vinod Tawde, Education Minister of Maharashtra, on the launch said, “This campaign is a step towards making a solid progress. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India programme with the vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society, and this campaign is a step forward in that direction. I hope corporates, NGOs, school managements and teachers will come forward to support ‘EkShiksha’ and the dynamic, young team at ConnectEd Technologies’ spearheading it”
Lehar Tawde, Co-Founder, ConnectEd Technologies, added, "As far as the rural education system is concerned, it’s time the focus moved from improving student enrolment to enhancing education delivery. ‘EkShiksha’ aims at providing children in rural schools with equal access to world-class education, with rural-focused technology playing the medium of delivery.”
The first phase of ‘EkShiksha’ will focus on enhancing educational infrastructure in some of the most densely populated Government, Government-aided and Tribal Welfare schools across every district in Maharashtra; followed by digitization of education delivery across all schools in the state.
