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Explanatory

learning pioneer

HRISHTI JAIN is the
cerebrally-driven founder-
SCEO of Reading Right
(estb.2013), a Kolkata and Delhi-
based proprietary firm which she
believes is ready, willing and able
to give a huge boost to the learning
outcomes of a wide spectrum
of learners ranging from school
children, college, university students
to business executives. Following
intensive research over seven years,
Jain has built a 15-member core
team of software professionals which
is led by CTO (chief technical officer) Jain: improved learning outcomes promise
Som Sankar Naskar. Together, they
have developed a revolutionary of business newspapers, I hated learning systems. Through this
SaaS (software as a service) tool — having to read them because of their initiative, we hope to achieve
including a ready-to-use dashboard complex language. News reports and economies of scale which seems
— which enables every teacher editorials covering a wide canvas of plausible because the explanatory
to insert supplementary online politics, economics, law, sociology notes provided by a good teacher
explanation to any difficult-to-grasp among other subjects in a technical can be shared not only by students
textbook content, across all subjects. bouquet of words often need of a single school but across
Newspeg. This software package deeper explanation. Thus the idea schools countrywide. Moreover,
perfected and launched in the of developing a software program this tool offers the guarantee of
“stealth mode” in over 700 institutes to insert explanations on any given dramatically improving students’
thus far, is set to go big time with two paragraph, line or word in the daily learning outcomes as explanatory
un-named state governments and a newspaper was born,” recalls Jain. education is way more powerful than
national exams board having signed Reading Right began its conventional chalk-n-talk teaching,”
up schools/colleges falling within operations seven years ago with says Jain.
their ambit. physical format programs centred Future plans. With the MPV
History. A business management around a curriculum crafted out of (minimum product viability) of the
graduate of St. Xavier’s College, newspaper reports and edits which SaaS tool having been tried, tested
Kolkata and the top-ranked has transfigured into ‘smarticles’ on and proven, Jain is all set to scale
Indian School of Business, the firm’s dashboard and app. the firm’s customer acquisition
Hyderabad, which awarded her a Direct talk. “The basic model for drive. “Reading Right has great
merit scholarship, Jain began her smarticles is to provide people potential because of the sheer range
professional career in 2016 as a with the option to purchase single of audience our product caters to
lead consultant to the ministry of stories/news articles across media which includes B2B, B2C and B2G
planning, heading infrastructure, publications, instead of an entire (government) markets. Thus far
energy and urban development subscription along with explanations the response is excellent, largely
for the government of Andhra — in the form of images, videos or because of the ease of adaptation
Pradesh. Meanwhile, she had already audio notes — provided for every of the product. It takes barely ten
conceptualised and registered concept/line by expert practitioners. minutes to comprehend the system
Reading Right as a path-breaking Eventually, we intend to persuade and get started. We offer students in
proprietary firm based on deep the Central and state governments India and neighbouring countries a
lateral and critical thinking modules. and premium schools and coaching huge opportunity to break with the
“Although my father, a Kolkata- institutes across disciplines to tradition of rote learning,” says Jain.
based businessman is an avid reader include this tool in their teaching- Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)

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