BYJU’S, the world’s leading edtech company, under its social impact initiative Education For All has joined hands with the Indian Coast Guard to honour the Armed Force services and empower their personnel’s children with high quality digital learning opportunities. The three year-long partnership aims to educate over 1200 children in class 8-12 whose parents serve with the Indian Coast Guard.
ICG’s collaboration with BYJU’S Education For All is an effort towards propelling the “Samagra Shiksha” programme of the government and to help enable wards of ICG personnel to harness the best out of the available opportunities in school, BYJU’S will provide these students with free access to its tech-enabled, high quality digital learning content. As a first step, over 500 licences have already been distributed to children from government schools across several Indian coastal areas including Chennai, Kochi, Bhubaneswar, Port Blair, and Gandhinagar.
This partnership with Indian Coast Guard is in line with BYJU’S commitment to empower 12 million children from underprivileged backgrounds across India by 2025 under you’s Education For All social impact initiative Additional Director General Rakesh Pal, PTM, TM said, “There have been quantum jumps each year, and history is re-written each year with numerous success stories that we receive from all across the country”.