Ekal Vidyalaya: Education for Rural India Case Solution
This is just an excerpt. This case is about STRATEGY & EXECUTION
PUBLICATION DATE: September 30, 2016
By taking a look at Ekal Vidyalaya (Ekal), a non-profit network of schools in India, this case concentrates on the traditional difficulty dealt with by companies that grow through duplication (e.g., McDonald's, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart): how can they continue to own development when their well of appealing places starts to dry? In 1986, a group of social business owners reimagined education in India, establishing a low-cost, "one-teacher school" design to supply academic gain access to in areas that had actually shown expense expensive for federal government schools. They established Ekal to meet the vision of a network of 100,000 one-teacher schools all throughout rural India. More than a quarter century later on, the Ekal network now consists of more than 54,000 schools. With the development of India as a financial power, federal government schools have actually gotten the required and funds to increase their reach to numerous of the areas that Ekal offers.