I Love Reading (ILR)

A bricks-and-clicks reading and school-transformation programme in government primary schools — getting children not just to read, but to read at grade level. ILR directly supports the NIPUN Bharat Mission.

A reading room in every school

In each partner school a classroom is dedicated to ILR — painted in bright colours from our storybooks, stocked with a small library. We train teachers to engage children, and put digital content in their hands through the Katha Khazana app and our learning portal.

Explore the 300M learning portal ↗

PhotoILR reading room — painted walls, low bookshelves, children browsing

1,000+

Schools impacted

4,00,000+

Children

6,000+

Teachers trained

99.9%

Improved reading

95%→

Attendance (from 74%)

States

Last assessment year. External evaluation by Dr. Ambedkar University: ILR children outperformed peers by 5 mean points.

Per-child cost: ₹10,000 a year. Fund a classroom or a whole school — talk to us at donorrelation@katha.org, or give now.