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  • Young Students Take Centre Stage as HDFC ERGO Concludes Third Edition of State Insurance Quiz Junior in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry

    Parthanil Ghosh, Executive Director, HDFC ERGO General Insurance, said the initiative engaged over 1,070 student teams from 42 districts, reflecting sustained efforts to build insurance awareness at the grassroots

    The third edition of the State Insurance Quiz Junior for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry concluded with a competitive grand finale, bringing together young students from government schools across the region to test their understanding of insurance and financial protection. The initiative, organised by HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, reflects a sustained effort to build insurance awareness at the grassroots level through early engagement with students.
    After multiple preliminary and semi-final rounds conducted across the states, eight top-performing teams qualified for the grand finale. The final round saw Team Srinuprasad and Ajesh from GHSS Kalkulam, Kanniyakumari, emerge as winners. Sibidharshan and Nikil from GHSS Palapatti, Namakkal, secured the first runner-up position, while Monisha and Anushya from GHS Vanavareddy, Kallakurichi, finished as second runners-up. The winning team received a cash prize of ₹1.5 lakh, while the first and second runners-up were awarded ₹90,000 and ₹60,000 respectively. The remaining five finalist teams were each awarded ₹30,000.

    The 2026 edition recorded participation from over 1,070 teams representing Tamil-medium government schools across 42 districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. This marked a significant increase from the previous year, when the second edition of the quiz saw participation from over 530 teams, indicating growing interest and awareness among students.
    Commenting on the initiative, Parthanil Ghosh, Executive Director, HDFC ERGO General Insurance, said building financial confidence at a young age plays a crucial role in shaping long-term resilience. He noted that as the lead insurer for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the company remains focused on strengthening insurance awareness at the grassroots and encouraging informed understanding of insurance products. He added that the quiz, which began with participation from just over 100 schools, has grown steadily over three years, reflecting increasing curiosity and engagement among students across the states.

    The State Insurance Quiz Junior forms part of HDFC ERGO’s broader national efforts to promote insurance literacy among young people. Since 2016, the company has conducted the Insurance Quiz Junior at a national level, engaging over 25 lakh students across India. Expanding this focus further, HDFC ERGO introduced the Insurance Quiz Senior in 2025 for undergraduate students, which saw participation from more than 1,100 students across over 140 cities.
    In addition to the quiz initiative, HDFC ERGO recently concluded the third edition of Kapitu Varaam, or Insurance Week, in collaboration with 29 non-life insurers across Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The campaign aimed to improve public understanding of motor, health, home, shopkeeper, and MSME insurance through outreach activities such as pamphlet distribution, newspaper inserts, and awareness drives at high-footfall locations. Collectively, these activities facilitated approximately 17 lakh interactions across the region.

    Through these initiatives, the company continues to focus on expanding insurance awareness among students and communities, reinforcing the role of education in strengthening long-term financial preparedness.
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  • Classroom visibility moves from intuition to data with Innovartan Technologies’ Classview.AI

    Prashant Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO, and Ravi Sharma, Co-Founder and CTO of Innovartan Technologies, explain how the platform analyses everyday teaching

    January 16, 2025: Limited and inconsistent visibility into what happens inside classrooms has long remained one of education’s most persistent challenges. Innovartan Technologies has now introduced Classview.AI, an artificial intelligence driven classroom intelligence engine designed to convert everyday teaching into structured, objective, and actionable insights.
    Despite sustained investments in teacher training, assessments, and external audits, classroom instruction itself has largely remained episodic and subjective. Classview.AI seeks to address this gap by enabling continuous analysis of lectures, allowing schools and educators to understand teaching quality through data rather than observation alone.

    The platform operates using a classroom camera and proprietary AI models that analyse each lecture across five defined pillars: academic coverage and correctness, lesson introduction, communication quality, application of concepts, and effectiveness of doubt resolution. Based on this analysis, teachers receive personalised feedback intended to support instructional improvement without judgement or additional manual effort. School leaders, in turn, gain consistent visibility into teaching quality across grades, subjects, and campuses.
    Commenting on the thinking behind the platform, Prashant Sharma, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Innovartan Technologies, said that education systems have historically attempted to improve outcomes without fully understanding classroom reality. He noted that Classview.AI is designed to make teaching measurable and improvable by analysing every class, every day, while respecting teacher autonomy and avoiding surveillance-driven evaluation.

    India’s education ecosystem includes over 15 lakh schools and more than one crore teachers, each operating in varied classroom contexts. According to Innovartan, standardised approaches often fail to account for these differences. Classview.AI aims to adapt to diverse needs by providing objective insights tailored to each classroom, enabling incremental improvements that compound over time.
    From an engineering perspective, Ravi Sharma, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Innovartan Technologies, said the system has been built with a focus on statistical validation, reliability, and real-world deployment. He explained that the AI models have been tested in live classroom environments to ensure consistency across subjects, languages, and teaching styles, without adding operational friction for teachers.

    Since October, Classview.AI has been deployed as part of pilot programmes in over 100 classrooms across 25 schools. The company reports a conversion rate of over 60 percent from demonstrations to adoption, alongside strong teacher acceptance driven by the platform’s feedback-first design. Pilot initiatives have also been initiated with multiple State Governments.
    Participating schools have reported early improvements in lesson clarity, classroom engagement, and student comprehension within weeks of deployment. The platform also enables post-class access to recorded lessons, allowing students to revisit content at their own pace and reinforce learning beyond classroom hours.
    Looking ahead, Innovartan plans to extend Classview.AI into an AI-powered personal learning companion for students. The proposed expansion would use classroom-derived insights to deliver customised practice, targeted explanations, and adaptive doubt support, creating a continuous feedback loop between teaching and learning.
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