Everonn Education launches ?Edupreneur?

Mumbai : Everonn Education, a company offering satellite-enabled learning solutions, has embarked on a project-Edupreneur- to promote people with entrepreneurial skills onto education.

With this, Everonn aims to promote Business Leaders who will turn into ?Ambassadors of Learning? to spread education with a missionary zeal as the nation witnesses an unprecedented boom in the sector, said the company on Friday.

Everonn Edupreneur targets 1,000 locations taking its footprint to almost every district in India and also the mini-metros and metros.

P Kishore, founder and Managing Director of Everonn Education Limited, said: ?As India grows to be an economic super power, there is bound to be a quantum growth in the field of education and the need to acquire industry relevant skills to be able to effectively face intense global competition.?

Everonn will use a combination of tools from the brick and mortar format to technology platforms for delivering content for which the VSAT network will form the backbone.

All Edupreneurs will go through an Education Management Program developed in association with a leading University in south India, to ensure uniformity in implementing the project.

The Government has given a high priority to education in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan as a central instrument for achieving rapid and inclusive growth with specific emphasis on expansion, excellence and equity.

The Plan allocation for the sector has also been dramatically hiked from 7.7% to 20% which translates into an investment of a whopping Rs 3 trillion.