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India projects an image of a nation churning out hundreds of thousands of students every year that are well educated, a looming threat to the better paid middle-class workers of the west. Their abilities in math have been cited by President Barack Obama as a reason why US is facing competitive challenges.
     India’s economic expansion was supposed to create opportunities for millions to rise out of poverty, get an education and shower with good jobs. But as India liberalized its economy in 1991 after decades of socialism, it failed to reform its heavily regulated education system. The overbearing bureaucracy in the education system resulted in focusing on rote learning rather than critical thinking and comprehension. Muddying the picture is that 75% of technical graduates and more than 85% general graduates are unemployable by India’s high growth global industries, including information technology and call centers, according to NASSCOM report.
   The challenge is especially pressing given the country’s more youthful population than US, Europe and China. More than 50% population is below the age of 24, and one million people per month are expected to seek to join the labour force here over the next decade, the Indian government estimates. The fear is that if these young people are not trained well enough to participate in the country’s glittering new economy, they pose threat to India’s stability.
    To overcome this Demand-Supply gap, vast school segments in India, high-end, private, unaided schools have been the fastest to adopt technology-driven pedagogy. The government schools’ technology investment has been funded by the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) school initiative under the Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan (education for all) scheme of the government of India.  Both segments are primarily looking for quality digital versions of their prescribed curriculum to enhance learning among students and to make the pedagogy more interactive

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