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Jaipur, Rajasthan, Jan 10: Roman Saini, a 24-year-old has done something that people of his age generally find boring. Saini left his job in Indian Administrative Service (IAS) as assistant collector of Jabalpur and has become an online tutor!
The young mind has a Unacademy.in platform on YouTube where he uploads lectures for candidates aspiring to become doctors, civil servants, computer programmers. He also shares documents on experts in foreign languages. The online teacher’s educational works have been viewed by 1.1 crore people and has 20,000 Twitter followers and 64,000 likes on Facebook.
Saini was inspired by his school friend, Gaurav Munjal who gave him the idea while he was still in second year of the MBBS programme at AIIMS. Manjal has also left his job as the CEO of his Bengaluru start-up and is a part of Unacademy.
Times of India quoted Saini, “My focus is on making quality education accessible and I think the offline mode is not the way to achieve it. That is why I decided to pursue fulltime the concept of Unacademy.” (Also Read- Real life Swades: Uttar Pradesh techie Tarun Shekhawat quits job in Germany to improve conditions in his village)
Saini felt the need for an online education platform when he realized the lack of infrastructure and human resources available online, that can make learning faster for millions of candidates. Although his father, an engineer, and brother, a paediatrician was not initially glad about his decision of leaving a secure government job they never complained about it.
Saini said, “There were many factors were involved, so I consulted everyone possible. I have a lot of respect for the civil services, but I think education is what will drive the nation and that is why I finally decided to work in this sector. I had dedicated two years to prepare for the civil service exams.”
The educational forum has has helped many students in times of need. One of the students, Aman Mittal who use study materials from Uanacademy.in, achieved a high 20th rank last year. After the formal launch of the online education forum in December 15, 2015, they have over 400 video lessons by 31 educators. Most of videos on their channel are for free.
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