THE INTELLIGENT GORILLA OF INDIA

1. The Intelligent Gorilla of India: The world has come to known Koko as the first talking gorilla. But there is one more intelligent gorilla in India than Koko who has been modifying the educational sector. His name is EduGorilla. The brainchild of Mr Rohit Manglik, EduGorilla has been serving the career needs of students since its inception in 2011. Since, his college days Mr Rohit Manglik had been a soul eager to help his juniors, peers with their educational dilemmas. The topic of education and career always created a buzz in Rohit’s mind. Pioneer in studies since his childhood days, Rohit had a very humble upbringing in one of the Tier 3 cities of Uttar Pradesh. He was aware of the plight of the education system in India. The good colleges were for those who were either exceptionally brilliant or for those who were affluent. Also, those from smaller towns of India had no credible source of information on career guidance. With the birth of several coaching institutes added to the misery of students. This drove Mr Rohit Manglik to put into an organised effort to find an all-encompassing solution to the students’ problem. This led to the birth of EduGorilla. EduGorilla, an education start-up serves as a single platform for education related queries. Within a short span of time of its launch, EduGorilla has created its own special place in the mind of students. EduGorilla website is a rich bank of knowledge for the aspiring and hard-working Indian student. It has a directory listing of almost 2,00,000 educational institutes of India. With an aim to bridge the gap between educationists and students, EduGorilla website is the answer to several questions. Questions such as “what to do after class 12”, “What are my careeroptions”, “best coaching classes for UPSC exams” etc are answered by expert authorities. Coming to the career needs of students, EduGorilla has almost 320 professions covered on its website. Also, the website hosts several articles and has critically examined over 100 coaching centres. Furthermore, the EduGorilla portal serves as a closely-knit community of various subject matter experts, professionals, doctors, faculty from colleges who are always eager to help the needy individuals. With state-of-the-art question and answer platform, Article System, Directory Listing, User Showcase etc. EduGorilla has developed into an online tutor. Last year only EduGorilla achieved the feat of listing 15 lakh schools in its database. This was much more than the earlier record of listing 30 thousand schools achieved by other prominent educational platforms. The listings were done on 350 different parameters such as course content at the school, teacher-student ratio etc. Another cherry on top was the successful fundraising done by EduGorilla recently from London- based and Dubai-based investors. The undisclosed amount would be utilized to further EduGorilla’s cause of becoming the one stop shop for all your education queries. In the end, I would like to state the motto of EduGorilla - “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”.