Schools to get solar-powered ‘Smart Classroom
Systems’ allowing teachers to
augment conventional teaching practices with tailor-made educational content
augment conventional teaching practices with tailor-made educational content
Mumbai, 16th June 2016: The
Education Ministry of Maharashtra and ConnectEd Technologies, an education-technology
start-up that creates hyper-scalable, rural-focused solutions, today launched a
campaign, named ‘EkShiksha’. 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 ConnectEd Technologies’ ‘Smart
Classroom System’, which is a robust, solar-powered, teacher-aid product that
works flawlessly in demanding rural conditions and enables educators to easily integrate
tailor-made multimedia educational content into conventional teaching
practices, thereby improving learning environment and academic performance in rural
classrooms.
The campaign
launch also marked the inauguration of ConnectEd Technologies’ maiden project
in the Palghar region of Maharashtra, which is the model of development to be followed
by the ‘EkShiksha’ initiative. To execute this project, ConnectEd Technologies
successfully garnered support of the Education Ministry of Maharashtra, Dewan
Housing Finance Ltd. (DHFL), school managements and educators in Palghar to deploy
sixty ‘Smart Classroom Systems’ across an array of rural schools.
Expressing
his best wishes, Shri. Vinod Tawde,
Hon’ble Education Minister of Maharashtra, said, “It gives me immense
pleasure to announce the ‘EkShiksha’ campaign for rural schools across the
state. Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi launched the Digital India
programme with the vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society
and knowledge economy, 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, as
currently enjoyed by their urban and semi-urban counterparts; with rural-focused
technology playing the medium of delivery. We are immensely thankful to Dewan
Housing Finance Ltd. (DHFL) for sponsoring deployment of our model project in
Palghar and hope for a similar response from industry at-large”
Kapil Wadhawan, CMD, DHFL, said,
"DHFL has been stead-fast in its corporate commitment to enable people lead
better lives by giving access to affordable housing finance. Education is key
to better living, which is why we are focusing on its enhancement through our
CSR activities. It gives me immense pleasure to support the model project of
this innovative rural education campaign by the Education Ministry of
Maharashtra
and ConnectEd Technologies. I sincerely hope corporates across industry-lines
step forward to support ‘EkShiksha’ across Maharashtra”
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. The campaign primarily focuses
on densely populated schools as these are institutions with the most urgent
requirement for education-technology solutions that promise improvement in
teaching outcomes.
About ConnectEd Technologies
Founded last
year, ConnectEd Technologies aims at enabling Indian youth – particularly those
in rural areas – by making quality educational and vocational training content
accessible to them using technology. Within this short span of time, our
efforts have garnered extensive support by the State Government of Maharashtra
and leading corporates alike, resulting in our maiden project in the Palghar
region of Maharashtra impacting thousands of school students.
Due to poor
internet penetration across rural and semi-rural areas, we currently use the
offline route to disseminate tailor-made educational content to rural audiences
and measure their performance. However, efforts by the Government, telecom
operators and ISPs, coupled with the entry of low-cost, internet-ready mobiles
are expected to boost internet usage, and we seek to soon launch a series of
web-based products to provide easy access to our content and an adaptive
learning environment.
Our plan is
to walk alongside the masses as they step online; becoming an integrated
solutions’ provider that not only serves world-class educational and vocational
training content to enhance the potential of Indian youth, but enables industry
to make smart human resource choices, by providing them access to individuals
whose measured competencies match their requirements.
For
further queries
Rumjhum Jagga
+91-7506445370
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