Right to Read programme on a roll in India, Africa and Central America

An ambitious and technology driven programme to help government school students read, write and speak English has been rolled out in India with impressive speed and results

The year was 2009. Venkat Srinivasan, a Boston-based computer scientist, serial entrepreneur and an innovator in the area of cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence noticed a big gap. He had excellent Indian engineers in his start-ups but almost all of them were not very conversant with English. This prevented them from interacting directly with their clients across the United States. The inability to speaking and write fluently in English was hampering their progress.
 
Srinivasan tried sending his engineers to popular brick and mortar English speaking schools, courses of various kinds but found nothing really worked. That’s when Srinivasan developed