Sri Gayatri shows the way for tech-savvy education

Education is our biggest hope for salvation from wrongful incidents that happen in the society. In this regard, Physics scholar PVRK Murthy, who has been training students for entrance examinations for the past 30 years, deserves a mention for his vision of adopting technologically-advanced teaching methods.

Born in 1962 in Guntur, Murthy always aimed for educating children. After he left his post of Vice-chairman of Narayana College, he started the ‘Sri Gayatri Educational Institutions’ in 2010, which is now running with 71 branches across both Telugu-speaking States.

“I began with 15 branches in Hyderabad. Later, in 2012 we expanded the number to 56. Now, we have about 43,000 students across all our branches,” says Murthy, the chairman of the institutes.

“We did not put any restriction on the class strength and now we have around 120 students in each section, but only a few are able to catch up to the subject quickly,” he says.

“I think Intermediate is an important stage for students. Interaction with them at that age is very important. And, to make students interact with technology is far more necessary,” shares the scholar.

Sri Gayatri has always been adept in using tech-savvy teaching methods for its students. “In 2010, we started with an interactive method of teaching with the help of NIIT and HCL. Later, we used video lessons.

In 2013, we developed our own method called ‘Cloud Interactive Teaching Method’ (CITM), which was in a form of PPT,” says Murthy.

“Apart from the cloud method, our institute has a software that can test the strength and weakness of the child and at same time we can test the abilities of a teacher,” he adds. “Currently, our success rate is 22 per cent and the credit goes to CITM method that attracts many students,” he says.