Education in India: Are students failing or the system?! | Sonam Wangchuk | TEDxGateway

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In this talk, Sonam Wangchuk shares his experience of bringing education reforms in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. Sonam Wangchuk is the founder of Students’ Educational & Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL). While he was doing his mechanical engineering at NIT Srinagar he understood the hardships faced by the Ladakhi students in the government schools; 95% of them were failing in their matric exams every year. Once he finished his graduation, he went back to Ladakh and started SECMOL together with some like-minded youth