For Nidhi Singh, a primary school teacher from Bagahibhari village, Gorakhpur, her smiley badges have helped her grab the attention of her students. She gives out these badges to students to reward them for their performance. The parents are acknowledged too.

In adherence to the findings of the National Education Policy 2020, the NIPUN Bharat scheme is ensuring that the students in India’s government-run primary schools master foundational literacy and numeracy. This can help India achieve its developmental goals because children with solid educational foundations can assure a bright future for India.

Young tribal women from Dungarpur, Rajasthan, who had never stepped out of their villages are now working in private companies in other states due to a skilling and vocational training project that is changing lives.

Along with making craft out of waste, to entertain and teach her students, Roohi Sultana, a national award-winning art and craft teacher in a government school in Srinagar has won appreciation of parents as her method of teaching requires minimal expenditure and offers maximum fun.

Purandarpur Higher Secondary School in Bankura offers vocational courses to its students who come from economically weaker rural families. Seven of its students have made it to the top 10 merit list of the recent exam held by West Bengal State Council of Technical & Vocational Education and Skill Development.

Anurag Sharma is a teacher in an upper primary school in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra. He is sharing his experience of boosting his student’ confidence by motivating him to participate in co-curricular activities.

Grateful that her parents encouraged her to study and didn't force her to marry at a young age, 20-year-old national level Kabaddi player Neelam Pardhi is aware that she has merely been lucky to do what she wanted in life. There are thousands of girls like her from her 'denotified' community who yearn to decide their own courses of lives — and the young athlete's greatest ambition is to inspire these girls to break free from the shackles of gender divide and get rid of the stigma attached to her community. A ground report from Madhya Pradesh's Panna.

There are community libraries functioning in 45 blocks in small towns and villages in Bihar. Jeevika, an initiative of the state government to alleviate poverty and enhance the quality of life amongst the rural population, hopes to have libraries up and running in 100 blocks across 32 districts in the state.

Macaulay knew that he only had to produce clerks from colonial India, people who could write in English and Hindi. Today’s education department can’t achieve even that. Where teachers themselves lack in skills such as good handwriting and diction, it is unlikely for them to inculcate these in their students