Our Origin
Enhancing literacy and education is realized as one of the critical elements of developmental strategies of central and state governments of India. Both aspects have a defining role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) nationally and Globally and align with the Indian Public Programme of “Beti Bachao, Beti Padav''. In view of the vastness and diversity of challenges in the sector, the complementary role of non-state initiatives is realised as extremely critical.
The lack of effective and direct connectivity between schools and philanthropic ventures, often inefficient implementation processes, institutional settings, proportionately a smaller number of non-state initiatives, fragmented academic approaches and disaggregated contributions are found limiting the role and scalability of non-state initiatives.
Larger community participation systems informally networked through digital technologies as Self-Initiative Citizen models having mutually agreed standards and adhesion could help to scale up non- state initiatives in India and achieve goals of SDG 4 by 2030. This thought process has led to the establishment of Aksharadaan Charitable Trust to strengthen the systems providing free, accessible, and quality education especially across rural India. Accordingly, the development of Aksharadaan digital platform is taken up to extend digital interfaces to offer voluntary online educational services.
Aksharadaan is registered with Govt.of Telangana as Charitable Trust Vide Doc No.387/IV/2017 dt 07.06.2017 of Hyderabad (RO).
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Vision
Empower disadvantaged especially female students with transformed thought process of ‘I can’t’ into ‘I will’ and all-purpose education
settings
Mision
Build digital platform providing Online Educational Services through Self Initiative Citizen Models
Goals
Efficient digital interface serving simple, small, many multipurpose needs
of students
Develop cost free digital interface to connect dots of needs (thousands
of aspiring schools and students) and drops of charities and render
direct transfer of services (no cash transfers) involving easy functional,
transparent, cost and
time effective, robust monitoring and evaluation tools.
Open access, multi-disciplinary digital learning interface.
Develop digital connect for rural students to provide free of cost wider
curriculum knowledge, co and extracurricular subjects, innovation, skill
imparting and careers through online books, videos, coaching,
mentoring and
webinars.
Model for digital islands of rural academic excellence
Build an operational model involving digital network of schools,
individuals, academic institutions, charities, and corporates over an
optimal rural working unit to render need based holistic online and onsite
services using Akshara sahaya and Aksharamaala interfaces for
creating digital islands of rural
academic excellence.
Current Effort
प्रेरणा Pilot Study is being carried out since 2019 to develop, test and operationalise the concept of Aksharadaan digital platform for establishing open access platform for public use at free of cost
Young Coordinating Team (2022-23)
Lead Coordinators
(Data analytics and e-libray)
Namrata Manchiraju
Niharika
Vyshnavi
Lead Coordinators
(Connect with GEMS)
Vignesh
Bhanu Prasad
Sahank
Sidhant Ranka
Lead Coordinators
(Motivational/Career Counselling Sessions)
Marisetti Sathya Abhijna
Sumanjali
Sadhana
Pragna
Core Team
MSR Murthy
Ph.D., FNIE
Upendher Musham
Entrepreneur, Engineer
Nand Kishor Agrawal
M.Sc., Dip in Rural Development (IRMA)
Rajan Kotru,
Ph.D
Chandra Sekhar Koneru,
M.D
M. Rajya Lakshmi
M.A., B.Ed
P.Kavitha,
MBBS, MRCPsych.
Suneetha Manne
M Tech., Ph.D.
Udaya Vepakomma
Ph.D