Our Presence

Azim Premji Foundation is currently present in six districts of Chhattisgarh, namely, Dhamtari, Raipur, Baloda Bazar, Bemetara, Janjgir-Champa, and Raigarh. The Foundation has set up District Institutes in Dhamtari and Raipur while others are seeding districts with a small team presence. We intend to grow our teams and scale our work in these districts in the coming years. There are 14 Teacher Learning Centres across the above districts.

The Foundation has been engaged in Chhattisgarh since 2004 through the Computer Aided Learning programme.

After adopting an institutionalized approach to change at the organizational level in 2012, Foundation initiated education leadership and management work in the state based on the belief that effective education leadership is essential to improve the quality and equity of schooling. In the teacher education arena, the Foundation has been engaged in providing academic support to teachers by facilitating sessions in the in-service and Open Distance Learning (ODL) programmes in partnership with the State Council of Education, Research and Training.

Currently, the Field Institutes are focused on building the professional capacities of key stakeholders in the education system i.e., teachers, head teachers and functionaries through multiple modes of engagement such as workshops, voluntary teacher forums, exposure visits, seminars, teacher learning centres, etc.

Chhattisgarh was an economically and socially underdeveloped region of undivided Madhya Pradesh. The state was formed on 1 November 2000 by carving out 16 Chhattisgarhi-speaking south-eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh. Raipur became its capital city. It is a source of electricity and steel for India. Chhattisgarh accounts for 15% of the total steel produced in the country. The formation of the state of Chhattisgarh has thrown new challenges and opportunities for the development of this state.

As per 2011 Census the state has a population of 2.55 crore of which 76.6% of people live in rural areas and 23.24% live in urban areas. With the exception of the states of the north-east, Chhattisgarh has one of highest shares of Scheduled Tribe (ST) population within a state, accounting for about 10 per cent of the STs in India. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribess together constitute more than 50 per cent of the state’s population. The tribals of Chhattisgarh mainly inhabit the dense forests of Bastar and other districts of south Chhattisgarh.

As of 2011 Chhattisgarh had an HDI value of 0.358, the lowest of any Indian state. The national average is 0.467 according to 2011 Indian NHDR report.

Chhattisgarh’s literacy rate stands at 70.28 % (below the national average of 74.04%). Male literacy rate is 80.27% and female literacy rate is 60.24% indicating a wide gender disparity.

A composite Educational Development Index (EDI), computed by the District Information System for Education (DISE), ranks Chhattisgarh at 27 in India, with an index value of 0.564. Almost 26 % of boys and 23 % of girls drop out of secondary school. Further, almost 14 % of all government teachers in Chhattisgarh are not professionally qualified.

Highlights - Chhattisgarh

Literacy Rate*	EDI***	No. of Govt.  Schools** (Class I - VIII)	No of teachers in Govt. Schools** (Class I - VIII)
70.28%	0.564 (Rank 27)	47253	155643

Know More about the District

Dhamtari	Bemetara
Raipur	Janjgir-Champa
Baloda Bazar	Raigarh