
A public MoU signed with NIEPID — the apex national institute — covering the Jiveesha school portal launch, co-development of the clinical portal, and early childhood development work.
Most technology is built for the 10% who already have access. Daira is a social-impact R&D studio for the rest — turning field research into ventures that run inside India's public systems.
Research, build, deploy, policy — the same four phases every venture moves through, in the places they actually happen.
Months in villages, schools and clinics before anything is built — with the communities, experts and officials who know the problem best.
One studio spine — field research, clinical validation, government deployment — carried across every venture.

Screening built into the school day — teacher-run, multilingual, with counsellor dashboards and training that makes it the school's own capability.

Support for families after a diagnosis — plain-language guidance, home activities and progress families can share with teachers and clinicians.

The professional layer — structured screening histories, Indian-population norms and caseload tools that multiply what scarce specialists can do.

Play-based developmental screening, growth monitoring and worker training at anganwadi centres — reaching children years before school does.

An AI pregnancy companion that turns everyday WhatsApp check-ins on sleep, meals and symptoms into structured clinical data a gynaecologist can act on.

Every venture starts in the field, with communities and frontline workers. If the problem turns out to be something else, it stops right there.
Out: a defined problem, not a product ideaInstruments are developed and reviewed with clinical partners like NIEPID, calibrated to Indian-population norms.
Out: something a clinician will stand behindPilots run inside programmes like Samagra Shiksha, carried by the teachers and workers we train — not by our field team.
Out: a district running it without usWhat works in one district becomes how the system works — reporting that fits government processes, and training that makes adoption durable.
Out: infrastructure that outlives usA studio is only worth more than separate companies if something accumulates between them. Three layers do — and each new venture stands on all of them from its first day.
Government and institutional partnerships take years to earn and are the hardest part to repeat. Once established, they carry across the whole portfolio.
Instruments calibrated for Indian populations rather than imported wholesale. The norms built for one venture become the ground the next one stands on.
Every deployment adds field and clinical data to a single research base, so each venture starts where the last one finished rather than from zero.
The questions partners, funders and institutions ask us most. Something else on your mind? Talk to us.
A social-impact R&D venture studio. We take a hard field question in education, child development, maternal care or inclusion and accessibility, research it with communities, clinical experts and government, build a venture around what the research says, and deploy it through public systems. Jiveesha, Kokh.AI and the Anganwadi programme all came off that one path.
A startup bets everything on one product. A studio compounds: every deployment adds to one research and data spine, instruments normed for Indian populations carry to the next venture, and the government relationships earned by one deployment open the door for the next. The portfolio is worth more than the sum of its ventures.
Government bodies deploying at district, state or national scale; CSR funders who need outcomes they can verify in districts they can name; institutions — schools, hospitals, anganwadi networks, NGOs — who want to run a pilot; and clinical anchors like NIEPID who hold our instruments to their standards.
With a question, never a product idea. The first months of every venture are pure research — in the field, with the people closest to the problem — and produce no product at all. If the research says the problem is something else, the venture stops there. That discipline is the method.
Write to director@dairaedtech.in, or call +91 94376 27506 — every enquiry reaches a founder directly. Government and Samagra Shiksha deployments, CSR programmes and institutional pilots are each structured on their own terms.
Across Dharwad in Karnataka and Keonjhar in Odisha under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, six national institute centres, and multilingual coverage in 24 Indian languages through Bhashini — with 30,000+ families reached, 18,000+ children screened and 51,000+ clinical records held. Each venture's page carries its own numbers.