Awards
CLT bags Digital India Award 2017
Millennium Alliance Award for low-cost innovation by FICCI and USAID
50 Most Impactful Social Innovators (Global Listing)
The UNESCO estimates teacher shortage in Indian schools at 3 million. An additional 1.5 million teachers will be required in the years to come. The ASER places the number of students in government schools at 121 million, more than half of whom are in rural or semi urban locations, while the count of teachers churned from India’s human resources remains low. Further, the addition to the number does not necessarily equate to addition in expertise or pedagogical strengths of the new recruits. The clear gaps in the education system are two pronged - the lack of teachers in general and the teachers lacking subject matter expertise. Extrapolate this situation to the rural parts of India, and lack of infrastructure including power
VISION : Making quality education accessible to all…
MISSION : …by putting quality resources within arms reach of every child…
STRATEGY : …achieving this through- Developing rich pedagogy in regional languages by master
teachers, Delivering it with low cost technology in underserved communities, Data analytics to track usage patterns
2017
CLT has come up with local solutions that are replicable, scalable and low-cost. While the USP of the resources is to bring focus to and strengthen STEM education in Middle and High Schools. CLT e-Patashale is both a product and service, where veteran teachers design innovative pedagogy for STEM (mapped to curricula) and technology experts use low-cost technology for development of e-content for the learners and practitioners in the base of the pyramid communities. Content delivery is on low-cost android devices in no internet environment. The model is adaptable to suit the needs of local schools. It can facilitate teacher-mediation and self-learning.
CLT bagged the prestigious Millennium Alliance Award, an Indo-US partnership for Affordable Innovation. The award is the result of a joint initiative of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Technology Development Board , Government of India. Millennium alliance aims at supporting and scaling-up low cost, innovative solutions being developed and tested in India to address development challenges that will benefit base of the pyramid populations across India and the world
Founder CEO Ms Bhagya Rangachar is enlisted as one of the fifty Global Social Innovators at the World CSR Day. Seen in the picture on the left receiving the citation and the award
CLT is awarded a certificate for it's meritorious work in the education sector on World CSR day - the award is received by Chief Strategy Officer, Mr Omar Wani
