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ICT Enabled Education

2 Project ‘Unnayan’- Banka District

State Bihar

Beneficiary School Principals, Teachers and Students

What is it?

Mobile based learning platform – Eckovation and ICT is used for providing contextualized and
interactive video learning modules, continuous and comprehensive evaluation of student’s
performance and cohort learning facilities to students involving use of Artificial Intelligence and Big
Data Analytics. The scalable model to ensure quality education in government schools started
in Banka, Bihar and upon proven success expanded in Jharkhand with the name Gyanodaya. The
project is riding on enthusiasm of students and teachers of government schools in Banka (Bihar),
Godda (Jharkhand), Chhapra (Bihar) and Chandauli (UP).
The initiative aims to provide Quality School Education in India by leveraging technology with a focus
on ensuring continuous monitoring and accountability in the system. The approach is towards
institutional building and ensuring sustainability through capacity building of teachers and
administration. The students are preparing for various competitive exams like State Board
Examination, IIT JEE, SSC-CGL, Bank PO, UPSC and RRB. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology is
used for tracking the performance of the student over a period of time for mentoring and counselling
purpose. Under the Unnayan initiative, students are now learning General English, Reasoning and
Aptitude skills along with higher software technical skills like Designing Websites, Programming skills,
Android App development, Robotics and Machine Learning etc. are provided to students through
Boot-Camps in various districts.

What are the Benefits

• 1450 Schools are now associated with ‘Unnayan’ programme
• 120,000 Students are directly getting benefits by ‘Unnayan’ programme
• 1500 Teachers are associated with ‘Unnayan’ programme
• The scalable model has now been adopted in 3 States (Selected Districts)
• Virtual classroom with more than 10,000 learners through mobile app

Critical Success Factors

• ‘Anytime-Anywhere’ e-Learning model via a big virtual classroom with no geographical
boundary

• Low cost and high efficiency model
• Multiplatform learning model
• School on Wheel program for Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas
• Continuous progress monitoring and Assessment

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