How technology-enabled public-private partnerships can unlock India’s scholarship promise

T housands of crores of scholarship funds in India remain unutilised every year, not because the money is unavailable but because many deserving students never discover the opportunities created for them.

A first-generation learner may qualify for multiple scholarships without ever hearing about them. At the same time, corporates with genuine CSR intent often struggle to identify deserving beneficiaries or measure the impact of their investments.

This is not a funding crisis. It is a discovery crisis. Solving it requires rethinking scholarships not as isolated schemes but as a connected ecosystem where opportunity finds the student, not the other way around.