Mission NIPUN Maharashtra: AI-Driven Assessments-Transforming Education System from within for 70 lakh students

To improve students’ Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) at scale, VOPA has built out the NIPUN Maharashtra app for SCERT Maharashtra, the apex educational body of the state.

It is set to scale our pilots from 350,000 students to 7,000,000 students; 20,000 teachers to 200,000 teachers; 1000 Education Supervisors to 10,000 Education Supervisors; from 5 districts to all 36 districts of the state of Maharashtra-and for the first time, bringing access to real time reports of students and remedial tools to 15 million parents.

Projected Impact:

  • 7 million students to be assessed every 15 days

  • Official MoU with SCERT, scaling project to 1.2 lakh schools

  • Educational Instruction time to be saved worth 1.3 million days.

  • 4.9 million students to achieve Foundational Literacy & Numeracy Proficiency

How we are doing it

  • Effective Training: Over 2 lakh  teachers and 1.2 lakh  headmasters have been trained and onboarded, facilitating swift project adoption and implementation.
  • Enabling Centralization: SCERT Maharashtra to set the goals, pace, and action plans through our tech innovations, ensuring a customized approach that meets specific needs
  • Comprehensive Assessments: Monthly evaluations of over one lakh students, with data visually presented in dashboards for all stakeholders, driving targeted improvements.
  • Data Empowerment: School leaders are equipped with data analysis and monitoring tools for informed decision-making
  • Recognition: The District CEO Mr. Rohan Ghuge (IAS) from Thane, received the prestigious Skoch Awars for this project in 2023 while he was in Wardha

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Education Assessment at Scale

  • Replicable model: Model replicable at state & national level

  • Scalable model: Platform-agnostic and readily adaptable

  • Customizable Assessment Levels: Agency with Educational bodies(SCERT)

  • Ground-Up Ownership: Government ecosystem led project

  • Long-Term Vision: Ensuring sustained improvements for future generations

  • State Adoption: SCERT to host data and technology infrastructure

  • Technology Readiness: Successful pilot with 100% adoption

NIPUN Maharashtra : Features

  • Scale: Ability to work at scale for 1.2 Lakh schools, replicable tech stack

  • Ecosystem: All stakeholders on one platform: Parents, Teachers, HeadMasters, Education Officers

  • Evidence: AI based classroom assessments for reading, numeracy (FLN)

  • Transparency & accountability: Parents and admin officers linkage into model

  • Governance Transformation: Realtime dashboards, Nested supervision

  • Engagement: Multimedia notifications, Reminders, Chatbots

  • Teacher capacity building: Data driven, need based courses and material

Knowledge Partner: Center for Effective Governance of Indian States

Center for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS) is collaborating with VOPA to provide evidence-based insights and solutions. Their support strengthens VOPA’s programs, ensuring best practices are applied, and advocating for policy changes.

Content Partner: Room to Read, India

Room to Read India collaborates with VOPA to provide curated multilingual literacy content from their Literacy Cloud platform, enriching VOPA’s V-School and NIPUN Maharashtra apps with quality educational resources for early-grade students. This partnership fosters literacy development in English, Marathi, Urdu,  and Hindi, ensuring culturally relevant and accessible learning materials. Together, we aim to enhance student engagement and support state education standards through continuous content updates and seamless integration, empowering children across Maharashtra with improved reading opportunities.

Join the revolution

Given our successful proof of concept, we invite other Educational Bodies, Schools, NGO’s, Government Bodies who seek to understand how they can use our innovations themselves, do contact us.