Google Aims To Help Maharashtra’s Teacher and Students In Digital Learning

Google has recently announced that it will invest $10.8 Billion in Digital India. On that note, Google has now partnered with Mumbai, one of India’s biggest states to provide online classroom facilities to 23 Million students and teachers.

Maharashtra tops the country in COVID cases and the schools were closed earlier in June to prevent infections. Google and the Maharashtra Government have decided to provide this service free of charge. The initiative has been showered with plenty of support from the teachers as more than 150,000 teachers have registered within 10 hours of the launch of this plan.

Commenting on this partnership, Varsha Gaikwad, Education Minister of Maharashtra said, “Our goal is to make Maharashtra the most progressive state in education by making effective use of online resources, platforms, bandwidth, and technology, using the power of the internet to reach out to the masses and bridge the gap in education.”

Google has unveiled a new app called “Teach from anywhere” in the Marathi language which is predominant in Maharashtra. They give access to the digital classroom system by offering features like Google forms, Google classrooms and Google meet.

“Our teachers and schools have the huge responsibility in shaping the future of our new generation, and we continue to be honored to play a role in offering digital tools that can enable more teachers to help even more students stay firmly on their journey of learning, during these times and beyond,” said Sanjay Gupta, Vice President of Google.