- Published on June 7, 2024
- In AI Features
How Zoho’s Low-Code Platform is Solving Rural India’s Educational Dilemma
Indian Institutes like DAV, SRM and NGOs like Pratham are leveraging Zoho Creator to enable and fastrack administration, online classes etc.
- By Shyam Nandan Upadhyay
India still faces a major challenge with educating its students, with over 1.25 million students out of school in 2022-23. States like UP, MP, Bihar, Gujarat, and Assam have the highest number of out-of-school children.
Despite government initiatives to improve rural education infrastructure, such as the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Digital India program, the on-ground implementation often falls short due to lack of proper supervision and tracking.
Challenges related to access, quality of education, socioeconomic factors and infrastructure persist, with lack of proper classrooms, libraries, computer labs etc.
"Most schools and colleges still rely heavily on paper-based and manual data collection, which is the main hurdle in providing real-time insights that can enable decision
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Shyam Nandan Upadhyay
Shyam is a tech journalist with expertise in policy and politics, and exhibits a fervent interest in scrutinising the convergence of AI and analytics in society. In his leisure time, he indulges in anime binges and mountain hikes.
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