Tamil Nadu becomes the first state to implement Australian e-learning platform Matific across government schools

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●        Tamil Nadu becomes the first state in India to announce a large-scale state-wide partnership with the learning platform.

●        Over 1.5 million students in Tamil Nadu from various state government schools will now have access to Matific, the mathematics e-learning platform.

Mumbai, 11 May 2020: The Tamil Nadu Government took an important lead in digital education in the country by partnering with Australian e-learning platform Matific to encourage an innovative way of learning mathematics for Kindergarten to Class 6 students. The deal marks the company’s first-ever pilot run in the Indian market. Over 1.5 million students across Tamil Nadu will now have access to the Matific platform, featuring thousands of gamified activities and worksheets covering skills aligned to the curriculum.

Tamil Nadu is a pioneer in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) and rightfully, maths is at the core of all these functions. With the growing number of careers in STEM fields, the importance of mathematics education needs to be the centre of focus. To build upon these skills among students, the state implemented Matific across government schools with the aim of increasing engagement in mathematics and in turn increasing academic achievement. 

Talking about the results, the honourable Minister for School Education, Thiru K A Sengottaiyan said,“The pilot project conducted in over 150 schools across the State using Matific increased students’ results by 25.3%. I am excited to be introducing Matific to students across Tamil Nadu and leading the charge in digital learning across India. We want to make education fun and skill-oriented and believe that Matific can help our students hone their skills and simultaneously add an element of fun into the learning process.”

“The Tamil Nadu Government under the able leadership of the Honourable Chief Minister, Thiru E Palaniswami has been a front-runner in educational reforms in the country. Under the aegis of the Education Minister, Honourable Thiru K A Sengottaiyan, progressive efforts have been made in the educational landscape in Tamil Nadu, which has been inspiring to other states as well. Being one of the frontiers in the tech landscape, Tamil Nadu has proved to be a promising hub for new-age education as well. Pushing the use of digital technologies in schools will put Tamil Nadu at the forefront of the STEM Revolution in India. We are delighted to partner with the Tamil Nadu Government and encourage the Matific platform across public schools in Tamil Nadu. As the results proved to be extremely promising, Matific is excited to be part of Tamil Nadu’s future success as well.” said Rajeev Krishnan, VP, Matific India.

With students and teachers looking for new and improved ways to learn and teach mathematics, Matific was able to see substantial improvements in both academic and engagement results. Throughout the course of the pilot, over 150 schools used the Matific platform to teach maths lessons aligned with their local curriculums. The results identified over 21,000 students had been taught using the platform, with an average improvement across Class 1-6 being 25%. 

Piloting Matific has given Tamil Nadu a solid base to ensure the state is the leader in mathematics education in India. By ensuring technology is part of primary education, students will be set to go through secondary and higher education, and into STEM careers, confident and with absolute ease. Continuing to build upon the success of the Matific for Schools Pilot, Matific is committed to working with Minister for School Education, Thiru K A Sengottaiyan and is looking to offer the platform in Tamil, ensuring that all students can use Matific in their mother tongue. Matific is excited to become the premier Tamil Nadu primary digital maths resource, available for all schools, students, and teachers into the future and hopes other states across India take up the opportunity to pilot Matific and see similar results in students.

Matific uses game-based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery while at the same time being aligned with the local curriculum (ICSE/CBSE). Designed by professors, educational experts and curriculum specialists, Matific uses logical sequencing and staging to report on topics for each student, group and class. Used by thousands of teachers worldwide, Matific provides relief to parents and enjoyable experience to students. The company has also recently launched Matific Galaxy in India to address the home market.

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Bharat Financial Inclusion facilitates financial transactions of over

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Rs. 100 crore in 5000 villages across 4 states in India

Over 4 lakh beneficiaries availed direct transfer of funds through Bharat Money Stores

Hyderabad, May 11, 2020: Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. (BFIL), a 100% subsidiary of IndusInd Bank, today announced that it has facilitated financial transactions worth over Rs. 100 crore through its wide network of Rural Distribution Service Points (RDSP) in Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra and Bihar.

These RDSPs, also known as ‘Bharat Money Store’ is a business innovation by BFIL that offers the convenience of facilitating deposits and withdrawals for the rural population based in remote locations of the country. With the help of a Bharat Money Store, rural villagers can now walk into their nearest kirana/merchant store to make basic financial transactions like repaying loans, depositing money, withdrawing cash, making utility and other kinds of bill payments.         

Bharat Money Stores are actively supporting Government’s efforts at encouraging the usage of the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) model by enabling withdrawal at their neighborhood shop for over 4 lakh beneficiaries in Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra and Bihar. Given the restrictions on movement owing to the current lockdown in the country, the Bharat Money Stores have also made banking services available to over 5000 villages, thereby impacting the lives of 3.5 lakh people in addition to the 4 lakh DBT beneficiaries. 

Talking about the initiative, Mr. Ritesh Chatterjee, Head, Bharat Money Store said, “At BFIL, it has been our constant endeavor to nurture and support livelihoods across over 1,20,000 villages. Bharat Money Store as a concept has ushered in the most convenient cash-in, cash-out points in rural areas which is coupled with a friendly neighbourhood guide, who caters to the customer’s financial needs. Through this initiative, IndusInd Bank along with BFIL aims to offer the convenience of making banking services available across the remotest areas of the country, without having to make the customer travel long distances. We strongly believe, this will go long way in building financial inclusiveness and sustainability across unbanked as well as under-banked locations of the country.”

“During the lockdown period, many people in my region received funds from government under DBT. They have been coming to my store to withdraw cash, deposit or transfer money. I am happy to have served customers and supported the government by facilitating DBT transactions at such a critical time”, said Raghvendra, a Bharat Money Store merchant from Chincholi in Sulepeth, Karnataka.

The Bharat Money Store is built on the strength of the Aadhaar architecture (eKYC, AEPS) which is central to the Government’s DBT model for distribution of relief fund, as well as the only payment channel to have

seen a record increase in transactions volumes in April this year.

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SBI General Insurance launches “Arogya Sanjeevani health insurance policy”, a standard health insurance policy

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Bengaluru, 11th May 2020: Recently, SBI General Insurance launched the standard health insurance policy – “Arogya Sanjeevani Health Insurance Policy” SBI General Insurance. The policy provides hospitalisation cover anywhere in India with sums insured ranging from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 5 lakhs.

Pushan Mahapatra, MD & CEO, SBI General Insurance said, “The introduction of Arogya Sanjeevani is a welcome development as this is a product which has been designed at the instance of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) with standard coverage and affordable premiums. We are confident that it will help in achieving the regulatory aim of improving the penetration of health insurance in our country. With the trusted brand name of SBI and our unrivalled distribution reach, we are well positioned to market this product successfully in tier 2 and 3 locations as well as rural areas.  We have ensured that this product is available through all our distribution channels.”

He added, “We are sure that with this product, we will be able to bring more customers under insurance fold. We are happy and excited to introduce Arogya Sanjeevani in SBI General’s bouquet of health offerings like our other health plans named Arogya Premier, Arogya Plus and Arogya Top up.”

Arogya Sanjeevani will cover the hospitalisation treatment cost of COVID–19 and will help in making affordable health care more accessible in times like these.

For more details of the policy, the customers can visit to the website of SBI General Insurance – https://www.sbigeneral.in/portal/

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ಚಿನ್ನ, ತಾಮ್ರ ಬೆಲೆ ಸುಧಾರಣೆ; ಕಚ್ಚಾ ತೈಲದ ಬೆಲೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಳ

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ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ಕುಸಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆಯು ತನ್ನ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯನ್ನು ಮರಳಿ ಪಡೆಯಲು ವಿಶ್ವದಾದ್ಯಂತ ದೇಶಗಳು ಉತ್ಪಾದನೆಯನ್ನು ಪುನರಾರಂಭಿಸುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಸಾಂಕ್ರಾಮಿಕ ರೋಗವು ವಿಶ್ವದ ಕೆಲವು ಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ದುರ್ಬಲಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಭಾರಿ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗ ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಜೊತೆಗಿನ ಉದ್ವಿಗ್ನತೆ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬ ಭರವಸೆ ಇದೆ ಎಂದು ಏಂಜಲ್ ಬ್ರೋಕಿಂಗ್ ಲಿಮಿಟೆಡ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ನಾನ್ ಅಗ್ರಿ ಕಮಾಡಿಟಿಸ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಕರೆಂಸಿಸ್ ವಿಭಾಗದ ಚೀಫ್ ಅನಾಲಿಸ್ಟ್ ಪ್ರಥಮೇಶ್ ಮಲ್ಯ ಹೇಳಿದರು.

ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 21 2020 ರಿಂದ ಸಾಂಕ್ರಾಮಿಕ ರೋಗವು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜೀವನದ ಹಾದಿಯನ್ನು ಹಳಿ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದಾಗಿನಿಂದ ಯುಎಸ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗವು ವಿಪರೀತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆಯ ಡಾಲರ್ ಇತರ ಕರೆನ್ಸಿ ಹೊಂದಿರುವವರಿಗೆ ದುಬಾರಿ ಚಿನ್ನವನ್ನು ಖರೀದಿಸುವುದನ್ನು ತಡೆಯಬಹುದು ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಡಬಹುದು ಬೆಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕುಗ್ಗಿಸುತ್ತದೆ

ಕಚ್ಚಾ ತೈಲ ಬೆಲೆ 1.83 ರಷ್ಟು ಇಳಿಕೆಯಾಗಿ 23.6 ಡಾಲರ್ ಗೆ ತಲುಪಿದೆ. ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಹರಡಲು ಮತ್ತು ವಿಶ್ವ ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಹಿಂಜರಿತದಂತಹ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿಯನ್ನು ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಲು ಯು.ಎಸ್. ಚೀನಾದ ಪ್ರಯೋಗಾಲಯಗಳನ್ನು ದೂಷಿಸಿತು. ಇಂತಹ ಕ್ರಮವು ಅನಿಶ್ಚಿತತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸಿತು ಮತ್ತು ಕಚ್ಚಾ ತೈಲ ಬೆಲೆಗೆ ಅಡ್ಡಿಯಾಯಿತು.

ಚೀನಾದ ವ್ಯಾಪಾರ ದತ್ತಾಂಶವು ಕೈಗಾರಿಕಾ ಲೋಹಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಬೇಡಿಕೆಯ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಗಳನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಗುರುವಾರ, ಲಂಡನ್ ಮೆಟಲ್ ಎಕ್ಸ್ಚೇಂಜ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಸ್ ಮೆಟಲ್ ಬೆಲೆಗಳು ಲಾಭ ಗಳಿಸಿದವು.

ಚೀನಾದ ಕಚ್ಚಾ ತೈಲ, ತಾಮ್ರ ಕಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಲು ಮತ್ತು ಕಬ್ಬಿಣದ ಅದಿರಿನ ಆಮದುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಗಮನಾರ್ಹ ಏರಿಕೆ ಕಂಡುಬಂದಿದೆ. ಇದು ವಿಶ್ವದ ಎರಡನೇ ಅತಿದೊಡ್ಡ ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಚೇತರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಸರಕುಗಳ ಬೇಡಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆಲೆಗಳ ಭರವಸೆಯನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿದೆ.

ಲಾಕ್‌ಡೌನ್ ನಂತರ ವಿಶ್ವ ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆಯು ಅನುಭವಿಸಿದ ಅಪಾರ ನಷ್ಟವನ್ನು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಲು ದೇಶಗಳು ಮತ್ತೆ ಹಾದಿ ಹಿಡಿಯುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಪ್ರಗತಿಪರ ಕ್ರಮಗಳ ಬಳಕೆಯಿಂದ, ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಉದ್ಯೋಗವನ್ನು ಮರಳಿ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ವಿಶ್ವ ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆಯು ಕುಸಿತದಿಂದ ಚೇತರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಆಶಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

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ShareChat announces #MAA4ME campaign to pay tribute to mothers, this Mother’s day

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Aims to recognize the selfless efforts made by Mother Warriors in the tough lockdown situation

Bangalore; May 11, 2020: ShareChat, the Indian social media platform, announces a 5-day #MAA4ME campaign to commemorate motherhood and recognize all the selfless efforts made by the mothers. This campaign has been designed to celebrate Mother’s Day, scheduled for 10th May, across 15 languages on the platform. ShareChat users are expected to participate in this touching campaign which is close to their hearts, showering love for their mother in their mother language.

“Irrespective of lockdown 3.0 implemented across the country,  every mother is selflessly working for their families including the working mothers who are tirelessly managing work-life balance, we feel it’s also important to recognize the efforts made by the Mother Warriors. With all solidarity and affection, we salute all the mother warriors in the country for their utmost dedication and love,” says Farid Ahsan, Chief Operating Officer (COO), ShareChat 

As part of the 5-day celebration, ShareChat will be driving exciting campaigns every day with a different theme, starting May 9th:

Day 1:Special Web cards to relate mothers’ qualities with their kids – Users can use web cards to match the qualities of both

Day 2:#NolockdownforMAA- Users to post videos, pictures of how their mothers are tirelessly working for home and families during this lockdown

Day 3: #MAAkafavorite – Users to share their mothers most used phrases 

Day 4: #Noworkday4MAA–  Users will be urged to support mothers in all household chores and give them rest for the day. Users to post their interesting photos and videos doing their mom’s work and encouraging them to take a break

Day 5: #10yearchallengewithMAA– Users to post your photos with your Mom from past and today

ShareChat recognizes all mother users who are using the ShareChat platform in their native languages and celebrates their contribution towards building a better tomorrow.

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