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Rows of students ages 6 to 14 sit cross-legged on a dusty cement floor inside a one-room government school in a rural village in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. It’s well over 90 degrees F. and there’s no electricity. A teacher stands in front of the class with a stub of chalk. She scrawls Hindi words on a broken blackboard while the students struggle to recite them.
Like millions of public school teachers across India, she only receives about nine months of training and has virtually no support from the government. According to a wide range of experts, India’s poor education infrastructure and lack of teacher training are major reasons many of the 100 million students in public schools across the subcontinent can’t read, write, or do basic arithmetic five years into their education. Though India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, a third of its population is still illiterate.
That’s what Azim Premji, an Indian business tycoon and philanthropist, hopes to change.
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