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After months of speculation about what India’s 66th richest man would do with his time and money the answer is finally here: reform the Indian education system.
After successfully implementing the Aadhaar card system for millions of Indians, former Infosys chief Nandan Nilekani will now enter the education sector and start by improving the standard of primary education.
According to unnamed sources quoted in a Times of India report, Nilekani has a small team in place that is working on"gamification of elementary education and developing relevant technology tools to attain scale."
The team is reportedly headed by Shankar Maruwada who was the former head of marketing at UIDAI.
A Business Standard article says that the platform will primarily aim to target children aged between two to seven years.
India, where almost 71 per cent of the children are educated in government schools, has tried to provide free basic education throughthe Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.
But the benefit of this scheme has been limited due to the limited infrastructure and staff shortage
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