Plan India partners Ericsson to digitally connect teachers, rural students

A single digital learning centre costs roughly Rs 10 million per annum to run, and this includes the one-time set-up costs

One of the biggest challenges the Indian education sector faces today is how to connect well-trained teachers with rural and marginalised students. Digital teaching technologies provide some solutions but experts often aver that there’s no substitute for good old fashioned classroom teaching.

Plan International, an organisation working on children and girls’ rights in 75 countries worldwide, has developed a pilot that uses internet-enabled learning in classrooms which could meet both criteria.

Their objective? “Over the years, we’d noticed that the lack of quality education, especially in maths and science, was the reason why so many girls performed poorly in the