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Sunisha Ahuja

Sunisha Ahuja

Director – Equity at Language and Learning Foundation; education specialist focused on foundational literacy and numeracy equity in India

Jul 7, 2026

2:53
To begin with, I would like to ask, who are the children that are getting left behind and not attaining foundational literacy and numeracy skills? Also, what does the data tell us?
3:03
Thank you, Shaiza.
3:04
And I think this is such an important conversation to have today.
3:09
When we see that the national assessments are telling us that children, you know, the learning losses that were induced due to long school closure during the pandemic, children have started to come out of that learning loss that we noticed in 2021.
3:27
But like you just said, there are deeper challenges that are still there, particularly in mathematics.
3:33
There are gender gaps that we see in the learning outcomes that children are achieving.
3:39
You refer to the ASER data.

12 MINS LATER

15:30
So let's say your mid-tiers, the ARPs, the SRGs, how do you think they would be able to, what kind of capacity building should we do to help them address learning equity barriers a bit more effectively inside the classroom, but also at a systemic level?

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