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Rohit Jain is the founder and CEO of AAGAM which is the India’s first OTT platform for education. It is the virtual ecosystem that frees the viewers from all distractions and help them to watch, learn and apply efficiently. Rohit hails from a small village of Maharashtra and he started his journey at an early stage. Rohit didn’t wait for the opportunities but indeed created opportunities to grow.
Rohit is also an international IBDP math teacher, teaching in 4 countries (India, US, UK and Germany). He also had the experience of teaching the grandson of RBI governor of India, kids of Director Executive of ICICI bank and few Bollywood celebrity kids etc. He was enlisted in the nationwide awards i.e., under 30 rising entrepreneurs-2022. With his lecture, he helped the students to get into prestigious universities like London School of Economics and Georgia Institute of Technology. Teaching has been one of his hobbies and started teaching in the second year of his engineering and after teaching the international curriculum kids, he figured out that there is a huge gap between the education that is being delivered to the privilege or upperclass society as compared to the middle-class family kids which is creating a huge gap in the quality of education received.
“Follow your passion, if you’re working for something don’t give up there is only one mantra for success, you never quit never quit and never quit; just keep working hard and suddenly things will fall in place”.
-Rohit Jain
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RISE OF AAGAM
Rohit Jain has a new definition for right to education and in his words “In India we usually talk about right to education but we never talk about equal quality of education, so it’s not only just about giving education to everyone but ideally it should be about giving equal quality of education to everyone”. So, he initially thought to bridge this gap by collaborating with a lot of schools, institutions and with coaching institutes for which his ethics has to be compromised and he could never do that. Eventually, Rohit realized that there is a need of one such educational OTT platform which helps students to watch the content, learn it in detail and apply it without any distraction so that’s where “AAGAM” comes into picture.
VISION OF AAGAM
AAGAM is the first educational OTT platform in India broadcasting content solely created for transmitting knowledge to learners across the country whose vision is to equip even the poorest of the poor with free and quality education and maybe after two years the whole process will be executed in all the official vernacular languages added in the constitution as well. AAGAM also wishes to replace YouTube in India for education and it has the freedom of creating its own original content. This OTT platform sequestrate from its competitors by tying up with the state government and reputed institutions in the education sector for disseminating quality education to the viewers. Further, AAGAM generates the content that all students can consume regardless of their age and curriculum. The motive behind AAGAM was to produce and provide thought provoking and intellectually nourishing content for kids and adults uniformly without getting them side tracked. On watching educational videos on major platforms, it is common for users to get tempted by recommendations that are not exactly relevant to the content they are consuming. AAGAM is an attempt which strives for virtual ecosystem that emancipates the viewers from all these interruptions.
Since it is not an online tutoring platform it is easy to collaborate with schools and to sponsor the entire content for free to the state government or central government schools where the requirement is very high. The premium services of the platform which is to be launched on 19th August 2022, are just at an annual subscription fee of 3000 rupees per year and with the content creator’s referral code, a discount of thousand rupees can be availed. The annual subscription has an access to many courses, mock exams, test series and the students of class 1 to 12 have an opportunity to win a scholarship up to rupees thousand every month straight into the bank account without any revenue share or without any commission. Rohit is anticipating to downright his vision of giving free and quality education to each and every poor in the near future.
AAGAM- MAKING EACH STUDENT INDEPENDENT
Rohit is trying to make each and every student independent and want to develop the fighting spirit by letting them to know the scenario about how important it is to be independent and says that “it’s the mindset which probably helps you to create something, that is the mindset that probably helps you to be a billionaire maybe in future and that’s the mindset which I think most of the kids are required to have in the country, so that they can start working hard, people say you should work hard you should be consistent ,all thing are secondary and the first important thing is that kid needs to think that he wants to become independent”.
ROHIT JAIN ON FAILURES
Rohit Jain addresses failures as learning and firmly believe that the things which he called as failure were probably responsible for making him a good man and that whatever he is today, failure has a role and if that wouldn’t have happened then life would have been quite different. He further adds that “I didn’t get into IIT’s in 2014, I was very depressed, very depressed right the only time that I had suicidal thoughts was when I. didn’t get into IIT”. That was the whole reason of teaching just to make sure that other kids should not be deprived of joining to IIT because of the reasons he had and probably that was the seed for AAGAM. He considered failure as a learning and always had a strong credence that results follow hard work and perseverance if not today but tomorrow for sure. Rohit says that he had this mindset perpetually in his life and even today if he gets depressed, he starts reminding himself that hard work will crystallize all the tough things.
Rohit Jain on Challenges
Rohit Jain says that it is like a journey and he loved teaching and that is the reason even today he is teaching and he enjoys the process. He says he is now making business based on education and earlier it was different one but business was always in his blood and that he is enjoying it even more and that he is having a luxury life with his passion which he always dreamt about. He further adds that he is building his own career, working hard and coming home and sleeping peacefully at night. He says there are no such biggest challenges but only challenge in his words is “to revolutionize the Indian education space, I just want to make sure that the challenges that I felt, a lot of people like me who must have felt when they were kids I just wanted to make sure that at least the next generation which is coming they do not face something like that. My first cousin, he has a daughter so usually I keep telling myself that after five ten years when she will grow up and when I look into her eyes I should be able to say her that look, now the quality of education that you are getting is extremely good it doesn’t matter you are in a tier three city you are getting a very good quality education I have done something not just for you but a lot of people like you, so that’s the thing , I have this wish of changing or revolutionize the Indian education space”.
Rohit Jain’s Message to youngsters
Jain further says to follow one’s own passion as in India people usually say that it’s all about the skills, hard work, decency, good job and having a good life with your parents all that is fine but always remember earning money is very important right so in life one should have an aim of earning money because if you don’t aim something like that then how will you give job to other people’s if you don’t give job to other people how will the country grow, if you want to make India a super economy like the USA and China we need to have more job creators right so I want everyone to start thinking how they can earn money and earning money should be the passion. If you start earning money you not only just develop your own lifestyle but you spend that money with so many people that where the economy grows a lot.
With no words lesser, AAGAM will bequest the lost glory of Indian education system. This 26- year-old young man will be a true revolutioner for the Indian education space and the education centered OTT platform, AAGAM will soon conquer the YouTube for education.
Navya Gedela
Research Scholar
