EmpowerU: Using tech to screen government colleges in Jharkhand

For over two years now, faculties in Giridih district in Jharkhand were seeing improved instructor attendance and proper midday meals being served. All way to EmpowerU, a technology platform that continues a take a look at government college conditions, tracks and brings actual-time facts from the schools without the use of the net, analyses it to discover essential troubles, and for this reason, recommends clever moves to directors.

The headmaster of every faculty marks students’ attendance using the cellular app, and all leave taken by teachers and students is tracked. The faculty also has to offer an update approximately the midday meal scheme and sanitation centers. The facts are checked to utilize a helpful cluster resource coordinator to track about 15-20 colleges. The facts subsequently are going to the deputy commissioner to repair the issues.

“There has been a boom in instructor attendance from fifty-eight percentage to more than 86 percentage, increase in midday meal serving to more than ninety percent through actual-time analysis of budget and grains supplied and students served, and stepped forward infrastructure and simple centers through shrewd difficulty detection and grievance redressal,” says IIT Kanpur alumnus Onkar Prasad. He began Promorph Solutions in 2015 to alternate the way authorities faculties characteristic in India. “Our motto is to enhance education through leveraging technology and analytics,” says Prasad.

The bootstrapped company raised finances thru the Invent program of the UK government, Villgro Innovation Foundation, Technology Development Board, SIIC IIT Kanpur, and is supported with the aid of Social Alpha (Tata Trusts). The business enterprise, situated on the Sidbi Innovation & Incubation Center (SIIC), IIT Kanpur, was bootstrapped with about ₹30 lakh and has received seed investment of ₹50 lakh.