It is said that knowledge cannot be obtained without a guru, and there is no age for learning. This is why at Varun Mishra's music class, students come to learn from 5-year-old children to 80-year-old elders.

The library in the village hosts books from renowned authors and poets, as well as those from new writers. That's why during summer vacations, monsoons, or the biting cold of December-January, children come here after school.

The Mo School programme has brought together 30 lakh alumni and community members across Odisha. Apart from voluntary services, the alumni network has contributed Rs 253 crore towards transformation of the government schools.

The Free Libraries Network covers 180 community libraries managed by over 280 practitioners spread across the country with a mission to make free libraries a matter of right.

When his younger sister was forced to drop out of school, Arvind Oraon set up a school in his remote tribal village in Jharkhand. The Kartioraon Adivasi Kurukh School has been a game changer in preserving indigenous languages.

Read how teachers in rural schools are innovating and ideating to make their students more environment friendly by raising and explaining ecological matters to them and encouraging them to make a difference.

Rakesh Bisht organises story telling sessions related to astronomy and has also set up an observatory, Kasar Nakshatra Observatory, in Almora.

A chartered accountant and his wife, a social worker, quit their jobs to start Swatantra Talim skill centres in rural Uttar Pradesh that have trained around 8,000 children and helped them set up careers.

At Parijat Academy, a school in Pamohi village near Guwahati, first generation learners receive free education and learn various skills. Making sanitary pads is a part of the curriculum.

A headmaster at a rural school in East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, gives away eggs as prizes for children who will run six kilometres every day for a week.