This education start up in India is reversing India’s brain-drain problem. Know how

The culture of brain drain that had taken India by storm in the 90s and post millennium is seeing a reverse trend these days. Well settled NRIs are getting back to their roots and investing in start ups to make things easier back home.

One of them is Suman Nandy, whose solution has come as a breather for those educational institutes seeking accreditation from reputed organization, is going places.

Nandy's EPaathSala focusses on simplified educational compliance management as per a news report by The Economic Times. Accreditation refers to the process of evaluation of higher institutes and colleges, a mandatory practice across the globe. An institute is graded on multiple parameters such as prevalence of infrastructure, staff training, student learning and registrar activities, and presented with a grade, or in India a cumulative grade point average out of four.

The evaluation, usually done by governmental and/or non-governmental institutions, plays a key role in student admissions, getting grants and campus placements by companies. The higher the grade or grade-point average, the better for the college and its students.
"It is the need of the hour. With thousands of colleges in the country, there is no organised and time-effective method of completing the processes for accreditation, which are crucial to both the college and its students," Nandy whose company counts nearly 400 colleges as clients in less than a year of its launch told the ET.
The list includes St Xaviers College, Don Bosco Institute of Technology and Pune-based College of Military Engineering.

Nandy said that while there is no dearth of autonomous bodies in India that dole out merit, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council or NAAC under the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is the most sought after organisation. The NAAC accreditation is valid for five years, after which the college has to resume the processes of applying and receiving the accreditation again.

"What took close to a year can now be done in a week's time," Mohammed Hanif, senior professor, placement cell coordinator and former coordinator of the Internal Quality Assessment Cell Coordinator (IQAC), in charge of preparing and submitting the report to NAAC, at St Xaviers College, Kolkata has told the financial agency.

The Self Study Report (SSR) is the main document which involves faculty staff and students to fill in details about their progress and academic excellence, prepared automatically, as and when the details are filled, a process that was done manually so far," said Hanif, who has helped several tier two and three colleges go about their accreditation process with the company's software.