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Concerned over the deteriorating school education standards, three enterprising women from Pune came together to start a web portal for school students, where high quality syllabus-based educational content will be available – at absolutely no price.
Swapna Gupte, a former IT professional, Ragini Tandon, a commerce post-graduate and Sunila Bhonde, an entrepreneur, are all family friends from Bibvewadi.

Their web portal, sharpeners.in, was started after they realised a shared concern about the state of educational affairs and felt they could each contribute something from their background to some sort of solution.

Swapna said, “We all feel our education system does not currently encompass analytical and reasoning skills. So, we decided to make a portal that will support students and can be an effective replacement for tuitions. Parents can teach through this portal and municipal schools can also find solutions from this initiative.”
 

first Phase
Ragini added, “In the first phase, the website has content for the students of Classes 6, 7, 8 and 9. It will be available in English, semi-English as well as Marathi, for almost all subjects. Students who follow the State Board (SSC) pattern will be aided by this.”

Bhonde explained, “Any teacher or expert can contribute here. We have tried to keep the site interesting and entertaining, yet in a simple and easy-to-understand format, all for free.”
 

10,000 can log in Swapna added that the site is currently on a beta version but at least 10,000 students can log in, only by creating an account with a username and password.

According to her, the site has certain features that will facilitate self-evaluation through a simple quiz at the end of each topic. It has a special module for parents to help them track their kid’s progress while using the site. They also have a section dedicated to non-academic content, to help sharpen general knowledge.

Alka Sathe, Dipti Deshpande, Madhuri Kolhatkar, Pratibha Bhat, Amruta Dhavlikar, Pooja Jadhav, Jaishree Hande and Leena Ranade are other contributors who have added content to sharpeners.in

Parents can teach through this portal and government schools can also find solutions