Education Alliance is trying to fix India's failing govt school system

Of the existing 900,000 government schools in the country, over 350,000 have 50 students or less even - when the infrastructure can house 500

If you can’t beat them, join them. That’s the motto the 45-year-old CEO of the Education Alliance (EA), Amitav Virmani, appears to have adopted to fix the government school system in the country. Although he has embarked on his work in Delhi, he’s not thinking one city or the other — he has his sights trained on nothing less than the entire country. Further, he wants to eventually push for legislation in India where the government agrees to fund non-profit organisations that can run government schools.

Sounds madly ambitious? That’s because it is!

But it’s not as if Virmani, a