Realising Digital Dreams

The Alwar e-Vidya initiative has transformed school infrastructure through digital libraries, community involvement, and interdepartmental convergence, promoting inclusive, sustainable education and lifelong learning

- ANIL SWARUP

Ensuring quality and sustainable education for all, alongside providing lifelong learning opportunities for all, is a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-4), to which India is a signatory. Access to a functional computer was lacking in more than 50 per cent of the senior secondary schools in Alwar district in Rajasthan. In addition, more than 15 per cent schools still lacked access to a functioning toilet block, and the majority were being run in decrepit, old buildings which had last been renovated more than 5 years ago. An ambitious project called Alwar e-Vidya was launched with the goal to create spaces for Digital learning – e-libraries – and equip government school children with the tools required to excel in a competitive world alongside strengthening the educational infrastructure in the district by converging all existing government schemes.

The initiative was centred on the following five pillars: