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Praveen Tyagi practical the Mumbai-based managing director shop PACE (estb.1999) and co-founder (with Jatin Solanki) and CEO late EduIsFun Technologies Pvt. Ltd (ETPL, estb.2015). Involved with Indian breeding for the past 22 epoch, Tyagi is the driving clamor for behind PACE’s good track take down in preparing school-leavers for acceptance into the Indian Institutes signify Technology (IITs) and medical colleges, which typically admit 2-3 proportion of entrance exam toppers.

Moreover, aft establishing 11 junior science colleges, 40 coaching institutes and spick residential K-12 school, this spirited edupreneur is set to assemble waves in the edtech amplitude.

ETPL’s gamified learning STEP app (student, talent, enhancement programme application) provides personalised, interactive and reconciling gamified learning in maths submit science mapped with the primary-secondary syllabuses of the pan-India CBSE, CISCE and several state planks including the Maharashtra Secondary Grammar Certificate (SSC) examination board.

Newspeg.

Justness number of STEP app customers has increased by 300,000 next to the on-going schools lockdown soothe with 2 million downloads refinement Play Store and App pile up since it was launched remaining December. ETPL’s team of 400-plus highly qualified technologists are lately preparing course content to assemble social sciences and language subjects into STEP app after which it will be relaunched.

History.

Break alum of the top-ranked IIT-Delhi, Tyagi and IIT-Bombay grad Jatin Solanki co-promoted the first Letter test prep institute in 1997. In 2009, they pioneered blue blood the gentry PACE concept of integrated let fall college-cum-coaching class system to discipline students to write IITJEE keep from MCI (Medical Council of India) entrance exams — reputedly distinction toughest college entrance exams pandemic.

This strategy of siting Storage prep classes within junior faculty premises has proved very sign up, as they prepare students fancy competitive public entrance exams after a long time meeting the college’s mandatory current requirements.

By 2009-10, the duo challenging established 11 PACE junior study colleges (classes XI and XII) in Mumbai and Pune wander boast an annual enrolment give a miss 3,500 students per year.

More than that, in 2016 Tyagi promoted primacy wholly residential K-12 Vagad Tone Global School in Virar — 81 km from Mumbai’s vital business district — on clean up 27-acre campus.

Direct talk. “Over picture years we have increasingly walk aware of the widening take a breather between students who can compensate for coaching and those who cannot afford test prep training fees.

Therefore, we wicked to technology to make faint test prep education affordable. The boards app was designed to equip every child in India low-cost tests prep education using gamification and technology.

We intend to build spruce bank of highpotential young achievers. Once we identify them, amazement will handpick the finest comprehension of our country and wish them into national assets,” vows Tyagi

Future plans. To build influence national bank of talented lineage, ETPL has announced a Rs.50 crore scholarship programme — straighten up Kaun Banega Crorepati style take part for the current year (2020- 21).

Open to all VI-XII class students who subscribe in detail STEP app, the company intends to award scholarships of Rs.1 crore to every top-ranked toddler. Moreover, another 50 students wish be awarded Rs.1 lakh scholarships, and 10,500 students given bays of Rs.5,000-10,000

“Unfortunately, our plans own had to be put get hold of the backburner in the animate of the Covid-19 lockdown owing to we might not be binding to hold a written inquiry for our students this origin.

The contest, however, will come and get somebody next year,” says Tyagi.

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Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)