Monali Handa,
Director-Marketing,
NComputing
Since its inception in India in 2008 till date, the key problem that NComputing as a company has set out to address has been: “How can computing benefits be percolated down to millions of students and the underprivileged workforce across the world, who do not have the privilege of having access to computers due to budget constraints faced by organizations and institutions that they are a part of.”
Currently, NComputing has association with a majority of the state governments in India. Some of the key implementations made by NComputing in India include 77,465 seats in 15,493 schools across Gujarat; 60,000 seats in 6,000-plus government schools in Andhra Pradesh; another 60,000 seats in Punjab; 58,500 seats in 2,622 government schools of Haryana; 18,000 seats across 1,800 learning centres of Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL); over 15,000 seats in Uttar Pradesh; another 15,000 seats in Bihar; 3,200 seats in Assam, and many others.
In India, the key challenges/impediments in the way of achieving 100% computer enablement/digitization include limited funds for setting up and managing IT labs/infrastructure, limited staff, acute power shortage, dependence on power backup systems such as UPSs/in-house generators and related costs, poor connectivity due to location in rural/
Monali Handa, Director, Marketing, NComputing
