The Government of Bihar has entered a statewide collaboration with live tutoring app Filo to offer free access to its platform to all students of class 9th to 12th from over 9000 Government Schools in the state.

The initiative will come at no cost to over 45 lakh students who will now have immediate access to vetted professional tutors on the platform for 1:1 personalised learning. This will provide equitable academic support to students beyond the classrooms; an area that has so far been the preserve of only a privileged few who could afford it (in the form of coaching).

Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Education Minister of Bihar said in a release: "We are proud to be the first state government to offer live instant tutoring support to our students. I wholeheartedly congratulate the founders of Filo to come up with such a platform whose aim is to help the students in their learning progression and offer spot solutions 24/7."

Filo is a ‘instant-live tutoring’ platform that connects students with top tutors with subject expertise in less than 60 seconds from across the country. On Filo, students get 24x7 exclusive access to live, 1-1, video learning sessions personalized from day one, at the click of a button. Every session is designed keeping in mind the learning capabilities and style of individual students.

Imbesat Ahmad, Co-founder, Filo said, “As someone who hails from the state and has done his schooling from Patna, I am thrilled to be able to create a product that can enable high quality 1:1 learning at scale for students from Bihar. Post classroom personalized tutoring can create a massive difference in students’ performance. In the USA, this is a tried and tested model and districts like San Francisco, Florida, Chicago and Los Angeles have been offering such support for a while now. It gives me immense pleasure that Bihar has become the first state in India to implement this.”