Educomp’s Mathguru.com Claims 2,500 Registrations In Two Weeks

Moneycontrol.com: Delhi-based web-based education company Educomp Solutions has launched a website for maths targeted at some 25 million pre-schools students in India. The site, Mathguru, claims Educomp CEO Shantanu Prakash in an interview to CNBC TV18, has got some 2500 registrations in two weeks of the launch.
It’s a paid website. Each student has to pay Rs 1200 per annum to access the content on the site. It claims to offer step-by-step animated solutions of the same math problems that are there in textbooks. They have more than 12,000 questions from the (NCERT) textbooks.
I think it’s a great idea. But the immediate impediments are the slow growth in broadband offtake (India has just 1.7 million broadband connections). Since it’s animation driven, bandwidth and higher download charges can be an obstacle. It would make sense if Educomp ties up with ISPs like Reliance and Bharti – and if the service offered at a monthly subscription of say, Rs 100. Indiagames is doing it with their Games-on-demand in partnership with Airtel (at a monthly subscription of Rs 200).

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