Through proven EdTech solutions that enable anytime, anywhere learning, BEI is striving to complement classroom teaching with home-based learning. This will allow for making online learning a permanent feature of education among students from low-income households. The initiative intends to provide a platform to learn beyond or in addition to school-based learning. A key focus area of the Bharat EdTech Initiative is to ensure equitable access to digital learning across genders.
With EdTech solutions seeping rapidly into the academic landscape, the glaring digital divide between different income groups became more pronounced than ever. More concerning was the evident inequitable access to education for all students. The savage attack of Covid-19 further inflamed learning losses.
Virtual classrooms underlined deeply rooted social inequalities. There was an urgent need to introduce an initiative that would act as an equaliser in our education system. It was to combat these rampant inequalities and fulfil the needs of the most vulnerable sections of our society, that the idea of BEI was germinated.
Abha Thorat-Shah
Executive Director, Social Finance, British Asian Trust
Prachi Jain Windlass
Director, India, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation India, LLP
Rathish Balakrishnan
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting
Sumit Tayal
COO, GiveIndia
Akshay Saxena
Co-Founder, Avanti Fellows
Imran Jafar
Managing Partner, Gaja Capital
Ramesh Srinivasan
Senior Partner, McKinsey
Safeena Husain
Founder & CEO, Educate Girls
We are driving collective action by bringing together 18 organisations working across various industries like philanthropy, social impact, EdTech, finance, and analytics.
Our partner organisations are key stakeholders of the BEI mission and are committed to bridging the learning gap in India. If you’d like to partner with us, please write to contact@bharatedtechiitiative.org to know more.
If you’d like to volunteer with Bharat EdTech initiative, please write to contact@bharatedtechinitiative.org
