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Telangana govt inks MoUs with 6 prominent NGOs to improve educational standards in govt schools

Hyderabad, June 15 (UNI) In a significant step to improve teaching facilities in all government schools across the state, Telangana State Education Department has signed MoUs with six prominent NGOs in the country on Sunday.
As part of the Memorandums of Understanding signed in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here, the NGOs will provide state-of-the-art technology teaching services free of cost to the students in government schools.
The government has partnered with six reputed organizations at national and international level to offer advanced Ed Tech facilities in government schools.
Nandan Nilekani-led EkStep Foundation, Prajwala Foundation run by Dr Sunita Krishnan, Alak Pandey's Physics Wala, Khan Academy, Shoaib Dar-led Pi Jam Foundation and Safina Hussain's Educate Girls are the prominent organisations, which came forward to offer their expertise in providing quality education by leveraging technology to students in government schools.
Enchanted by the welfare and development programmes implemented by the People's Government, these organisations came forward and joined hands with the government.
The decision to seek help of noted organisations was taken in line with the Chief Minister Reddy's idea of improving educational standards in the state.
The state government strongly believes that partnering with India's renowned organizations will bring a revolutionary change in the education sector in the country.
The EkStep Foundation, run by Nandan Nilekani, is already working in 540 schools with an artificial intelligence-based platform. Now, the organisation will offer services in more than 5,000 primary schools in 33 districts.
The organization provides Telugu and English languages as well as Maths basics from class 3 to class 5.
Physics Wala will provide coaching to Inter students for NEET, JEE and CLAT exams. It also provides free training to students from the school level for competitive exams.
Khan Academy will offer video-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) training in accordance with the curriculum to students from class 6 to class 10 in the state.
Prajwala Foundation, led by Dr Sunitha Krishnan, will launch child safety and protection programmes for students from classes 6 to class 12 across the state.
Pi Jam Foundation will provide training in coding and computational thinking to students from class 1 to class 10.
Educate Girls will take up the enrollment of over 16,000 out-of-school children to improve literacy and educational opportunities for girls.
Government Advisor K Kesava Rao, Education Secretary Yogitharana, CM Special Secretary Ajith Reddy, School Education Director Narasimha Reddy, Director of School Education Naveen Nicholas, Education Department Special Secretary Haritha, Xstep Foundation CEO Jagadish Babu, Prajwala Foundation Chief Dr. Sunitha Krishnan, Physics Wala Co-Founder Prateek Maheshwari, Khan Academy India MD Swati Vasudevan, Pi Jam Foundation Founder Shoaib Dar, Educate Girls CEO Gayatri Nair Lobo and others present.
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