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Bridging the Digital Divide

JINENDER SONI, 35

Founder, Mission Gyan

Jaipur

In 2019, Jinender Soni quit his Rs 5 lakh a month job as a mathematics teacher with a popular online coaching academy and built a similar facility for government school students in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district. What aided his endeavour was the good availability of computer labs in the district’s government schools. The Covid lockdown last year prompted the Rajasthan government to urgently expand digital education for students, and Soni’s online teaching

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