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June 17, 2010 / 31:27

This episode covers corporate social responsibility, education initiatives, and the challenges of the Indian education system with guest Kiran Bedi. Key discussions include the importance of sustainable educational projects, the role of technology in learning, and the need for global communication skills.

Kiran Bedi discusses how corporations can contribute to social causes effectively, emphasizing the need for long-term projects rather than short-term donations. She highlights her family's commitment to education through the Shivar Foundation, which supports various educational initiatives.

The conversation shifts to the specific focus on education, where Bedi shares her personal experiences and motivations for establishing educational institutions. She explains the success of their engineering college and the importance of creating a global learning environment for students.

Bedi also addresses the challenges within the Indian education system, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, where many students struggle with basic literacy. She outlines innovative pilot programs aimed at improving education delivery through technology and community involvement.

Finally, Bedi discusses her vision for scaling educational initiatives and the importance of leadership development among students, stressing that education should prepare them for future challenges in a globalized world.

TL;DR

Kiran Bedi discusses sustainable education initiatives and the challenges facing India's education system, emphasizing long-term projects and global communication skills.

Episode

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you know when a corporation goes up when
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it takes up a certain percentage of its
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Revenue a certain percentage of profit
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and puts it
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into you know social causes
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what can be done gets fairly
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limited and it will create a very
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discontinuous uh
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effort otherwise it'll become very small
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because if we say that we will put in 1%
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of our profit or 5% of our profit and
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then put it in what happens when you do
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this in a year in which there's no
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profit then they all all efforts become
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projects
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projects are by nature
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discontinuous but what it gains
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is uh the project management or program
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management capabilities which will
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always be inherently very strong in a
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corporation okay so the way we do is we
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know
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that the subjects in which we can
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contribute a very
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many so we encourage our employees to
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participate along with ngos in many of
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the cses and as normal one of the causes
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for which we seek their uh cooperations
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W teach in a school it's a question of
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how long your time is available and
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accordingly we'll work with the NGS and
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the Departments which will find out the
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time at which employees can go and teach
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in a school we have 62,000 employees
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it's a very vast number so the hours
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which can contribute to sled
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but
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what we had done or what I had done and
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my family has done is
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different we have two operating
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companies inl it's India and it's still
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Global andil India is about 2 and half
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billion in size andil Global is 2.8
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billion in
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size they have been declaring dividends
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since
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Inception it India was formed in
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1976 and it Global which is it
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Technologies is formed in year 2000
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listed in
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2000 these
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dividends flow into a family
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coroporation the family Corporation
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beites a large Quantum of it into shivar
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foundation so we have found a very
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sustainable way of doing this what
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happened s with this we can take a long
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effort you know something which will
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take 10 years something that will have
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to be supported for 25 years you know
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big project end of the day what is and
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what have I achieved what have we
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achieved we have achieved in we built
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two
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institutions and we know how to run it
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with processes we know how to run it
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with
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structures so if you want to create
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institutions which will you know which
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are built to last we know we know how to
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build these to
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last we we would do them and we will do
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them as institutions not as projects I
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hope you follow the difference let me
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just follow up and that and ask about
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the target of your
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efforts it could be Health it could be
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the Arts it could Community Services but
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you have chosen to focus on
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education you would just say a few words
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about that choice why
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education the why education came with
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not much of
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reasoning because when we wanted to give
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something
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back uh I looked at myself as says what
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am I I'm a product of
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education
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education and scholarship
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it gave me a lot of confidence and
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aspirations I picked up from friends and
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the Ambiance in which I
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grew and uh if I could provide a similar
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Ambiance it could help a lot more people
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that's how we set up a College of
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Engineering under a university under an
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University but right when we set it up
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itself we set it up that this is going
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to grow big this is going to last this
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is going to do many things than just
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engineering
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so we bought 238 campus next to chenai
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and now it has become part of chenai
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itself and now in 14 years and we did
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the processes right we build the in buil
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the institution right in its ninth year
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it
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topped the state there 400 engineering
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colleges in the
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state and somewhere around the it's 14
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years old somewhere around the 10th year
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it ranked the top
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10 private colleges in uh the entire
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India and then we began a good 9 years
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ago a joint program we said let's start
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a joint program for
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Masters and let's do it with the best
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school in the world in these fields so
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we have done that with car Millan we
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offer four post-graduate
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courses and which is partly done this is
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this I believe is a very important thing
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in a global World We believe you should
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study in multiple
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countries okay now I'll step back and
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give you the
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reasons the China has become India's
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largest trading
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partner it's rare to find an Indian who
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speaks Chinese it's rare to find an
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Chinese who can speak any of the Indian
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languages none of neither of them at the
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trading level I want to repeat this at
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the trading level can speak English
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either okay small businessman
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okay how do they communicate God knows
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sign language probably but is there an
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they are the largest trading partner
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when the largest trating part they
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displace United States we all speak
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English but no one speaks Chinese
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and uh uh they come up you know if
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you've ever traded with them they come
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up with a calculator and then tell you
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this is the price and that's all they
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you always go back with the price that
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you want you know they they the way they
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cost their material probably is very
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different by weight or
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something
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so uh now this has to be recognized it's
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just find its way into the education
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system it'll be good for us to you know
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arrange Exchange program so that if
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there's a two-year course someone goes
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there spends three months and comes back
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and then over this entire period learns
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Chinese to speak to read or right we
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like you have a problem in America that
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everyone speaks only English or
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Spanish uh in India everyone speaks
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their mother tongue or English so it got
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her line through us and England and
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Australia but the economy number 2 3 4
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five if you take them it'll be China
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Japan Germany India they have to speak a
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different language now okay anyway we
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thought that this join program we should
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pick up the
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experience these programs have done two
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semesters in India and one semester in
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the US okay and the students are
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solid most of them work for American
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company they go through the sem
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placement system and they draw a higher
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salary than
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what the native CMU course could
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get so this is a second step that we did
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and the third step which we did was that
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we are a product of Technology we are a
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product of
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R&D our company began its effort in
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producing Computing before either
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Microsoft or IBM did the personal
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Computing area we one of the earliest in
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the' 70s we are we are a company in
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the70s who produced all these things
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whereas these things came around in the
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world in the '
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80s we are also one of the earliest in
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unix's earliest in technology so we know
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that the way it it it stages itself is
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technology comes
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first you know research comes first as a
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result of it technology comes as a
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result of it engineering comes so if you
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build an engineering College how do you
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connect it up with what happens
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before so we started working on
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that we built a research center and we
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CAU somebody who came from defense
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research we've got great advisers who
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are you know supporting this so
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we the kind of people who support is
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people like Raji people like arach
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people who have been advising the prime
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ministers of India so we
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have in
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education covering a
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span and
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depth in addition to that we run a
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business
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school so we thought that we would do
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this as something which is
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inspiring and we would do it the way it
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will be we thought our belief is that it
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is aspirations
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meritocracy
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and world class Institution
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if you have the three
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ingredients is what our country
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needs how serious do you see the
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educational situation in India and what
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is your strategy to try and tackle that
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uh
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problem umul education in India requires
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correction in some
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places new introductions in some places
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and then widening in some places
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widening is Indian education is not
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global global doesn't mean somebody you
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know comes here you know even if when I
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got when when my
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daughter came here to study the first
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thing he insisted was that you live
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abroad for a year
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alone uh and work in a in a company just
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by yourself so she went and worked in
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this bu business communication business
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and uh with Sky
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News completely Anonymous without
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knowing no one knew what she was she got
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a job because she got a degree in
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communication but it's it's it's great
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experience one must you know just have
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some alien experiences like
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this and uh studying in one location
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somehow doesn't appeal to me not for the
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future second second thing is I come
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from a generation in which the average
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life expectancy is in the
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80s they all are going to be in a
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generation in which the life expectation
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should be 100 plus okay if it is so they
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have more time to strengthen their you
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know educational input now or as they go
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along you know it can be a discontinuous
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effort also so we thought that we will
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provide all these things and build a
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university that is another project that
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we're doing and we're not doing in the
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traditional style of you know we will
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take land and then uh get to start with
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some courses and then Build It Up not
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like we did last time this time we just
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going and constructing it and we said
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that a full-fledged University is what
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will be built we will get to work with
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Partners across the world and then take
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it from there offer of completely
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different education experience someone
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ask that what is this going to look like
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says we don't know it's a leap of good
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faith this are two things that we're
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doing in Higher
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Learning that's more than what you asked
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for mhm that's great just uh to stay on
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this this area you've built a university
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and yet I know you're also very
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interested in students of a younger age
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at a different
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stage and thinking about where you want
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where you have intervened in the
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educational course that people
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follow if you could just work just work
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through a bit your thinking why
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intervene at the University level why
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intervene at a younger level and then a
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related question is how do you think
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about scale or scaling so you want to
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intervene but I also know you want to
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intervene and have a large impact on a
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lot of people so really a second
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question is um just talk a bit about
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your thinking about scale large scale
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impact large scale impact is
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to
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okay there are two things that we
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noticed is serious
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gaps
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one let me talk about my home state my
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home state is not where I come from that
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is Tamil home state is where the we
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industry this is up we the largest
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private employer there which is where we
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built all our businesses they employed
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20,000 people who all are in up it's a
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state which is adjacent to New
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Delhi and uh it is uh if the state were
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to be a country with a population of 190
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million it'll be the 7eventh most
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populous state in the
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world but it has
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very depressing
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failures the school system with 180,000
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schools is not able to cope with what
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the needs
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are and political compulsions have made
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them that a student will just get
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through class after class after class
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without measuring what he or she has
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learned so that goes through till 61
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so if you take a fifth standard student
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45% of them don't know how to
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read and if it takes second standard
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students uh similar percentage of
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students cannot recognize
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letters so we have a serious problem
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okay how do we correct it if every if
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you knew that how to correct it there
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wouldn't have been they would have
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followed it the state government is very
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sincere I'm not taking them to be their
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failure someone needs to experiment and
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find an
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answer so we've run some pilot models of
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delivering
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education through a non-qualified
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teacher deliver it
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through this medium on a you know
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telecast
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mode where someone only is assist
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sitting standing next it's almost like
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cooking through a television instruction
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okay so somebody's demonstrating it for
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that
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next
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and the course where is such that it it
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is in Hindi we we created it
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ourselves and uh uh we tested it we pil
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piloted
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this after every
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conclusion of every r or so we
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reinforce because the stages are you
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communicate re
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reinforce then find gaps close
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gaps the huge Advantage which a city
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bred person has is the mother becomes a
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teacher no one can replace a mother's
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teaching no teacher can because she will
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ensure that the child learns and
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retains what she has taught if she can
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teach that's why the urban students get
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to be much more competitive who take
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away the bulk of what earning potential
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that there is that's another political
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problem which India has okay anyway I'm
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not wanting to solve that problem I
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thought that let me solve the problem at
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the teaching
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level so how do
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you see what the teacher the mother has
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to do so towards the end of the day each
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day we are bringing in a control and
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command system through
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satellite so that the most proficient of
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the
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teachers take all the students who have
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got caps and then they're connected
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through uh through satellite and they
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teach and correct so that our objective
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is to get 90% of what is being taught to
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be retained by 90% of students okay so
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that just eliminate the
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possibility the advantage of the system
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is if someone has a two-month
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handicap he or she can join a class you
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know this mental conception of one year
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one standard you know you you just take
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it away think without those limitations
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you have so much to study so it has to
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be paced to what you have and in between
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if you have to go away for something
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else it'll wait you
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know it can't come back and say that I
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missed it because the education carrier
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is one life and then youve got to stay
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with it for the rest of the life These
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are people who may drop out after fifth
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standard or drop out after school this
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is only opportunity to they have to have
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any
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foundation so we did this we you know
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the government knows that we are fairly
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sincere
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people we have a good reputation we say
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that you know we will do what we say we
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will do and if we
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don't commit anything we'll say at least
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we'll experiment with all
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sincerity so we ask the government of of
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180,000 schools give us the management
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of 200
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schools but just agree to be patient
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with us and and uh we will correct
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this and you know we at to do this but
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we starting
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now what will it do I mean they came up
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and said take at least 1,000 schools you
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know 200 schools you're talking about
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60,000 students it's a very serious
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responsibility I said look it's it's
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it's an Act of Faith which what you're
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giving it's it's a liap of faith
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and uh the least we will do is we'll
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follow the old method but deliver good
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education to these people okay these
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60,000 people will take charge say next
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year we'll write in the letter of intent
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that we'll go up to a th000 schools but
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post that we will program manage this
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introduction over the state to the
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180,000 schools okay this is the largest
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that has ever been done okay but we'll
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program managers okay we'll work side by
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side
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with it's a very well-intentioned thing
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and the team which is doing is highly
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capable it's uh the project is headed
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you know by some by a person no less
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than TSR suban who was Chief Secretary
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of up before and was cabinet secretary
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before so the team is very highly
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powered very capable
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individuals we said we'll take in I'm
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I'm very involved personally about on
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this project and
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uh the other project
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is called vidyan This is called shika
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the vidyan project
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is you know the the urban rural divide
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is very sharp I gave you the statistics
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to you of up government
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up is if we just leave this you know
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there was a speech by President Clinton
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were he there yes
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2001 2002
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2003 there are three consecutive
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years India registers 9%
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growth and 2004 there is an election and
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the rolling party is
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defeated and it's not come
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back the problem is of the 300 million
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poor people who go on vote never saw the
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benefit of the 9%
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growth in the subsequent 5 years
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they called it all inclusive growth and
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did partly and promised mostly that they
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would get
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them the benefits and they started
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seeing
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them the rolling party came with higher
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majority it's because currently all
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benefits are going to the urban people
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so how do we take it to the rural people
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how do we bring them to be equals we
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need to bring
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leadership at the rural level because
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you know Talent at the end of the day is
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randomly distributed it doesn't look at
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cast it doesn't look at Creed it doesn't
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look at religion it doesn't look at
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where you're studying and where you
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living how can you develop leadership at
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the high school level among students the
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level in which you develop
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them because you know after that it may
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be late
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you know uh you developed it in you
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develop it in every
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stage you know they get very
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aspirational aspiration comes in you
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know when you work with all of them are
00:23:43
almost similarly
00:23:45
qualified if we go to 2,000 schools and
00:23:49
take School Toppers and select 200
00:23:51
students they're all very similarly
00:23:54
qualified when they come in so you
00:23:57
compete
00:23:59
one and then you correct yourself two in
00:24:05
some field or other we make sure that
00:24:08
they
00:24:09
lead finally if a play is held like
00:24:13
ramayan there are 56 out of the 200
00:24:15
students that will participate you know
00:24:18
we'll make sure in sports or they
00:24:21
compete every week on something or
00:24:25
other so you know competition rais
00:24:29
leadership and there are many team
00:24:31
events in which they
00:24:33
participate so you know if if you come
00:24:36
there and say it's very busy life those
00:24:39
kids lead a very busy
00:24:41
life they get up at 5: in the morning
00:24:43
they get to work at
00:24:45
5:45 and they get to sleep at 9:00 or
00:24:48
9:30 they don't have a minute
00:24:51
free so where will it go these are all
00:24:54
you know to us I mean to me these are
00:24:57
projects which
00:24:59
will take a long time you know I hope I
00:25:03
live long enough to see the
00:25:05
results uh because they have to go
00:25:07
through school then they have to go
00:25:09
through college then they have to go
00:25:10
through work life will they go going to
00:25:14
an IAT or am I guarantee
00:25:18
you unquestionably they'll be able to
00:25:21
pick up where they want to go anywhere
00:25:23
in the
00:25:24
world I would want them to go back to
00:25:27
IAS or more political life run for
00:25:31
office we would prepare them for it you
00:25:34
know in a lot of ways when I was very
00:25:38
young they said every Kennedy was
00:25:40
prepared to
00:25:41
be uh president of the United States
00:25:45
they pretty much
00:25:48
did so as a business entrepreneur for
00:25:51
many years you developed a capacity to
00:25:54
think strategically and to build an
00:25:56
organization set a dire ction as you've
00:26:00
come in now to serving as a social
00:26:03
entrepreneur what are the skills that
00:26:05
have carried over that have served you
00:26:07
in doing what you're doing now from your
00:26:10
years at
00:26:11
HCL the first thing is number
00:26:15
one the whatever you whatever we are
00:26:18
aspiring to do it has to be big to keep
00:26:21
my own my interest in it alive any one
00:26:26
of the initiative we doing they were all
00:26:29
bigger than what we thought we could do
00:26:31
at any time when we
00:26:34
started the first thing that we always
00:26:37
do is we work out a
00:26:38
plan and the plan has always been a
00:26:41
10-year
00:26:42
plan and we work out Financial
00:26:46
allocations which will be a 10e
00:26:48
allocation we work out an organization
00:26:51
structure
00:26:54
of how to create it he said first we
00:26:57
need a board that will guide it
00:26:58
we construct the boat if to the
00:27:01
university the person who had
00:27:04
served as the head of the IAS Academy he
00:27:08
will be know he is an AO someone who's
00:27:12
managing India's most
00:27:14
vital uh Ministry petroleum Ministry
00:27:17
he's an our board you know we got some
00:27:19
for for the school we have the one who
00:27:23
was uh principal of Miranda Vice
00:27:26
Chancellor of Delhi University she's on
00:27:28
the board someone who created Sanskrit
00:27:31
school which is thought to be one of the
00:27:33
best
00:27:34
schools she's on the board you know we
00:27:37
we first create a board if we talking
00:27:40
about the engineering College we have Dr
00:27:43
nran on the board and we have uh Dr
00:27:48
arunachalam on the board you know people
00:27:51
eminent you know scientific capability
00:27:55
in order that everything is you know
00:27:57
what the other side we have got worry
00:28:00
about accounts and audit as well we have
00:28:02
the previous election commissioner
00:28:05
Krishna morti he's on the board of s you
00:28:08
know first is you create a board that
00:28:11
will help and then build the
00:28:13
institution and then build an
00:28:15
organization structure below who
00:28:19
has you know how do you transelate a 10e
00:28:23
goal to a 5year goal and they have to
00:28:26
have the aspiration it can these things
00:28:28
cannot be served by people to whom that
00:28:31
is just not the job our education
00:28:34
institution people turnover is pretty
00:28:36
close to zero because they like what
00:28:39
they
00:28:41
do they compensated
00:28:44
well and we introduce metrics for
00:28:47
everything because it must be
00:28:49
measured and uh we know exactly 92.8% is
00:28:54
what the Toppers 98% was the topers get
00:28:59
last top
00:29:01
25% the in this school for leadership
00:29:06
they got about
00:29:08
90% and how do they get there this is
00:29:11
checked out week by
00:29:14
week
00:29:16
so it
00:29:18
runs with with an Institutional
00:29:22
discipline I learned it from somebody I
00:29:24
learned it I learned
00:29:26
how Gates found Foundation works it
00:29:29
works like a business organization
00:29:33
accepting its businesses
00:29:36
to meet some other objective which are
00:29:38
not business objectives I could ask one
00:29:41
last question uh how do you how will you
00:29:44
measure your
00:29:47
success in uh in in in the field of
00:29:50
social impact and
00:29:54
education social
00:29:56
impact well
00:29:58
something like an engineering
00:30:01
institution is
00:30:04
measurable you know there are many
00:30:06
measures to do
00:30:08
that something like a brand new idea of
00:30:11
a university which will function and
00:30:14
collaboration with universities in
00:30:15
multiple countries has never been done
00:30:19
before so it has to be adapted and it
00:30:23
cannot be my goal you know we always
00:30:26
create an institution and organization
00:30:28
structure just be there
00:30:31
go and
00:30:33
uh we have to keep correcting you know
00:30:36
as in the you know being F and doing
00:30:39
anything isse there's nothing to go by
00:30:43
so the only thing to go by is you keep
00:30:45
collecting feedback to see is this
00:30:47
correct and keep checking with the
00:30:49
outcome outcome is who have an Advisory
00:30:52
Board of people
00:30:54
who not only govern inputs but also will
00:30:57
be final
00:30:58
consumers
00:31:00
meaning uh it could be business it could
00:31:03
be government where you want these
00:31:05
people to go to
00:31:09
research thank you thank you very much
00:31:11
for Tak time thank you

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Episode Highlights

  • Building Lasting Institutions
    Focusing on sustainable educational projects rather than short-term initiatives.
    “We know how to build these to last.”
    @ 03m 40s
    June 17, 2010
  • The Importance of Education
    Education is a powerful tool for confidence and aspirations.
    “Education gave me confidence and aspirations.”
    @ 04m 25s
    June 17, 2010
  • Innovative Education Solutions
    Implementing pilot models to improve education delivery in underperforming schools.
    “We will correct this with sincerity.”
    @ 19m 43s
    June 17, 2010
  • Creating a Board for Success
    A strong board is essential for guiding the institution's vision and structure.
    “First, we create a board that will help and then build the institution.”
    @ 28m 11s
    June 17, 2010
  • Measuring Success in Education
    Success in social impact education can be measured through various metrics.
    “Something like an engineering institution is measurable, there are many measures to do that.”
    @ 30m 04s
    June 17, 2010

Episode Quotes

  • We know how to build institutions that last.
    HCL's Shiv Nadar: Bringing Entrepreneurship to Education
  • Education gave me confidence and aspirations.
    HCL's Shiv Nadar: Bringing Entrepreneurship to Education
  • We will correct this with sincerity.
    HCL's Shiv Nadar: Bringing Entrepreneurship to Education
  • We always create an institution and organization structure just to be there.
    HCL's Shiv Nadar: Bringing Entrepreneurship to Education
  • The only thing to go by is you keep collecting feedback.
    HCL's Shiv Nadar: Bringing Entrepreneurship to Education

Key Moments

  • Corporate Responsibility00:44
  • Sustainable Education03:40
  • Education Impact04:25
  • Innovative Teaching17:55
  • Long-Term Vision25:03
  • Institution Building26:51
  • Board Formation28:11
  • Feedback Loop30:45

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