School reopening and learning loss: 230 million children face the worst education crisis imaginable

In an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, speaks about the learning loss and the strategy that needs to be adopted to handle this crisis.

The Wire-03 March 2022

In a 35-minute interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, speaks in detail about three things:

  1. the nature of the problem, i.e. he describes it fully; 
  2. whose responsibility it is to take steps to tackle this crisis; 
  3. the strategy that needs to be adopted to handle this crisis. 

He spells the strategy out in considerable detail. This interview offers context to both the nature of the crisis and the quality of the response.