Smart Classrooms Launched in 40 Government Schools Across Uttar Pradesh

SBI-SG Global Securities Services Pvt. Ltd., in association with DEVI Sansthan, has installed smart classrooms in 40 Uttar Pradesh government schools under its corporate social responsibility program, "Smart Shiksha." The inauguration, scheduled on 21 July 2025 at the World Unity Convention Centre, CMS LDA Campus, Lucknow, is part of a larger movement to empower foundational education with technology and innovative pedagogy.

Target institutions for this digital transition are schools in Ayodhya, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, and Varanasi districts. The purpose is to improve the learning environment of the classroom in susceptible areas through technology and evidence-based teaching in the class. All of these smart classrooms have been provided with interactive digital technology with ALfA (Accelerating Learning for All) pedagogy as its nucleus with emphasis on establishing basic literacy and numeracy among children at a faster pace.

On the day of launch, a teachers' training workshop was also organized. 160 teachers of government schools—40 each from Kakori block, Sarojini Nagar block, Nagar Chetra Zone-1, and Maal block—are being provided with this extensive training. Emphasis is given to peer and activity-based teaching based on the ALfA approach, which says it is possible to educate children for basic reading and arithmetic skills in 30 to 45 days.

This program combines corporate funding and pedagogical innovation to close the gaps in early childhood learning. The smart classrooms are intended not only to enhance digital access but also to enable a new model of classroom teaching that is interactive and learner-centered. The ALfA pedagogy is predicated on directed activities that facilitate active participation, and initial signs from comparable implementation have indicated enhanced learning outcomes over a brief timeframe.

Chief Guest at the launch ceremony was Mr. Mrigank Jain, Managing Director, SBI-SG Global Securities Services Pvt. Ltd. Shri Alok Ranjan, IAS, Ex-Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh, also graced the occasion. Their presence highlighted the significance being given to public-private partnership in fulfilling pressing needs in the sector of education.

SBI-SG Global Securities Services Pvt. Ltd. and DEVI Sansthan's move is a significant move towards digital infrastructure alignment to the government schools. Schooling through technology is not new, but the unified and high-volume effort to deliver digital assets and teacher training for the very same under-provisioned schools can be expected to have a long-lasting impact.

DEVI Sansthan, or Dignity, Education, Vision International, is an Lucknow-based nongovernmental organization. It aims for evidence-based, scalable education initiatives, and its ALfA pedagogy is being rolled out in Indian states and eight other countries worldwide. The ALfA model was created through years of field and research work, and it facilitates fast learning by means of structured, interactive methods.

Through activities such as Smart Shiksha, the use of CSR funds in foundational education is being rethought. The collaboration challenges the notion that private sector engagement in education should be merely philanthropic contributions and rather makes a contribution towards long-term change through strategic support and quantifiable impact.

This programme also found support from the imperative need for learning recovery, as well as for educational inequity, especially in rural and semi-urban areas. With its focus on government schools and enabling indigenous teachers, the programme seeks to make early foundational learning more effective and inclusive.

In a situation where most children find it difficult to achieve basic literacy and numeracy even after undergoing school for several years, bringing in technology-facilitated and methodologically robust models of learning can mean interventions so badly needed. In undertaking this project, SBI-SG Global Securities Services Pvt. Ltd. and DEVI Sansthan dream of a vision of inclusive education and sustainable capacity building in the public schooling system.

Source and Credit:
As per official press release material delivered by SBI-SG Global Securities Services Pvt. Ltd. and DEVI Sansthan.
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