Dr. Dinesh Tyagi, CEO, CSC SPV launched “The CSC Bal Vidyalaya” on July 06, 2020, in 10 States- Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. 21 CSC Bal Vidyalayas has started in these states. These are ICT enabled schools specially designed for students of rural India.

According to Dr. Tyagi, “CSC aims to open 700 Bal Vidyalaya’s, one in every district across the country, by the end of the current financial year and then expand it to every block by the end of 2021. We started the concept of Bal Vidyalaya to bridge the digital divide in rural areas. CSCs foundation is education, so we wanted to help the cognitive development of children at the nascent stage.”