Daily enrolments have gone up by three times in April when compared with the pre-lockdown period in March With schools and offices shut nationwide for nearly two months, students and professionals are swarming online classes, providing a boost for edtech businesses.
Bengaluru-based online learning firm Vedantu said user numbers surged after it began offering free student access to its entire learning platform during the lockdown.
Vedantu’s subscriber base shot up from 50,000 before the lockdown to 650,000 now, as new learners signed up for classes I-XII and competitive examinations such as Joint Entrance Examination, or JEE, and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, or NEET, according to co-founder and chief executive Vamsi Krishna.