BSNL partners with IIT Bombay, Yupp Masters to improve the reach of digital education

State-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Friday launched a DRONE (Digitally Rich Online Nationwide Education) Education Initiative in partnership with IIT Bombay and Yupp Masters, in efforts to improve the reach of digital education program in India.

The partnership comes at a time when e-learning is gaining traction amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to the stoppage of physical lectures.

IIT Bombay in a joint statement said it has developed digital content on subjects ranging from IT Literacy (Java programming, Python, etc), Health and Nutrition, to Digital Divide (net banking), and more, using its ‘Spoken Tutorial’ methodology.