Meera Kulkarni
Solapur, MaharashtraFinished the electronics track on a shared phone, one module a night. She now maintains the diagnostic equipment at the district hospital and teaches the same track to her cohort.
What the arrangement has produced.
Six years of a free classroom and a paid teaching staff, reported as they stand — including the quarters that look bad. Nothing here is rounded up.
Learners48,120Enrolled across all open courses since 2019.
Volunteers1,284Community mentors, translators and moderators.
Free courses340Published and permanently free. No tiering.
Villages reached612Offline-first delivery in low-connectivity districts.
Certificates issued22,940Verified completions, issued at no cost.
Paid to educators₹4.2CrDirect compensation. Never equity, never exposure.
Provisional figures. These are internal counts and have not been independently audited. They are published here because the arrangement should be checkable, and they will be replaced by audited numbers rather than quietly corrected.
The figures, with names attached.
A number is a summary of people. These are three of them, printed with permission.
Irfan Sheikh
Murshidabad, West BengalCame in for the maths refresher, stayed to translate it. Forty-one modules in Bengali, and the Bengali cohort is now the second largest on the platform.
Lakshmi Devi
Warangal, TelanganaTaught weaving economics as a volunteer, then as a paid educator once the course found its audience. Her cooperative's bookkeeping course is the most completed course we host.