Leveraging the New Education Policy for Improving Education Outcomes

CSRBOX has been hosting the annual India CSR Summit for the past 7 years. The Summit has been the largest CSR and social impact event in the South Asia region with participation of 1800 organisations and 2400+ delegates every year.

At the 8th India CSR Summit 2021 (7th-9th Dec 2021), we hosted panel discussin on 'Leveraging the New Education Policy for Improving Education Outcomes', with following speakers:

  • Moderator: Mr. Manmohan Singh, Head - Aspirational Districts Collaborative (ADC) / Co-Founder, Piramal Foundation / Kaivalya Education Foundation
  • Ms. Pratima Harite, Head, Asia Pacific CSR & Philanthropy, Lenovo Foundation (APAC)
  • Ms. Rama Iyer, Director General, WPP Foundation
  • Ms. Anjela Taneja, Lead Campaigner Inequality, Oxfam India
  • Mr. Giresh Mohan, Operations Manager, ITC Limited – Social Investments
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    During this insightful discussion, the speakers shared their learnings, thoughts and experiences around the following points:

  • What role does the New Education Policy play in improving the learning outcomes among the learners?
  • How are companies looking at education interventions alignment with the NEP and what are the key areas for investing through CSR?
  • What are existing best practices among businesses and non-profits that can be seen as future models of better education?
  • How do we look at life-skill programs and empirical learning models to align with the NEP?
  • How do we build capacities of government institutions and strengthen the whole education ecosystem step by step? What is the prioritization matrix for this?