Nitesh Jain is the founder-CEO of the Gurugram-based Best Edventure Pvt. Ltd (estb.2019), a company that runs the BeSingular education platform.

Jain: future technologies focus

This online platform provides K-12 students study programmes in future technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), game design, coding, IOT (Internet of Things), drones, and 3D printing and courses on entrepreneurship. The curriculum, curated by a team of highly-qualified and experienced tech professionals based in India and Germany, stimulates students to become “fearlessly exploratory, big dreamers, progressive, dynamic, and futuristic individuals”.

Newspeg. Best Edventure has set a target to train and certify 500,000 students over the next two-four years in robotics, AI, VR, and AR in pursuance of the company’s larger plan to emerge as a force to reckon with in the country’s booming ed-tech sector.

History. An alumnus of the top-ranked Harvard Business School and Singularity University, USA, Jain is also joint managing director of the Gurugram-based Best Group of companies (estb.1972). Best Group manufactures control cables, gear shifters, transmission and driveline shifting systems, and lighting and future factory solutions (headcount:1,000-plus). Committed to the cause of developing India’s “abundant and high-potential human capital,” Jain is also a co-founder of the blue-chip Ashoka University, Sonipat.

Direct talk. “Our education system needs to change from its emphasis on rote learning and exams obsession to becoming more meaningful and relevant for students. On BeSingular, our objective is to provide children a user-friendly platform to learn future digital technologies through practical curriculums which will develop their problem-solving, critical thinking and application skills,” says Jain.

According to him, this three-year-old edtech company has been carefully designed to be “an exemplary service provider, making a tangible difference to students’ lives” rather than as an enterprise with an eye on fund-raising and billion dollar valuation. “The Indian ed-tech sector is growing rapidly and the market is large enough for all edtech companies to find and carve their own niches. I believe our heavily funded competitors will push us to continuously improve and upgrade our programmes and curriculums,” says Jain.

Future plans. With the BeSingular platform humming smoothly with subscriber-learners, Best Edventures is all set to enter the European market, beginning with Germany, with which group companies have developed durable linkages. But committed to the cause of quality education for all segments of society, Jain is exploring ways and means to extend BeSingular’s reach to government schools where learning outcomes tend to be abysmal. “We are seriously examining how we can attain economies of scale and reach students in government schools across India,” says Jain. Wind in your sails!

Sumali Moitra (Gurugram)

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