We have chosen to focus on government schools because the majority of the country’s children: 155 million are enrolled in these institutions. And more than half of the children in these schools come from below poverty line families.

The more disillusioned families get about the quality of learning children get vis-a-vis the opportunity cost of keeping them in school, the more drop outs we will see, and the tougher it will be for us to groom India's youth, the demographic divided the country is counting on to take it to the top.

In keeping with education right of the child, we believe that every girl or boy enrolled in a government school should, by the end of every academic year, have grade specific competencies in language, mathematics and science across curriculums. Children and their families and communities should be able to find value in the education process so that lack of learning at school doesn't become a reason for poor parents who cannot afford private school education to take their children off government schools.

Therefore, developing innovative and creative curriculum to reinforce academic concepts to children in identified ‘hard spots’ of learning, enabling them to understand and practice these concepts during special classes held everyday before or after schools, and regularly assessing the learning levels of children has become part of our education programme “Ensuring Children Learn (ECL).”

To increase civil society involvement in the way government schooling happens Naandi has created an 'Adopt a School’ initiative through which in certain programme locations, concerned corporates and individuals are actively participating in school activities - mentoring children, teaching and making the schools hubs of activities that are helping to bring excitement and joy back into learning.

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