Saarthi is a portal of compiled Open Educational Resources (OERs) for school learning. The site aims to promote the use of Open Educational Resources by school teachers and students in their daily teaching and learning process. Today’s students are so much into the internet that they browse their required information on their palm. Still, authenticity, reliability and copyright licenses attached to the resulted content has never been taken too seriously at the school level. There are plenty of OERs developed by higher educational institutions (MIT Blossoms), publishers (Springer EBooks) and by the governments (Karnataka Open Educational Resources, NDL). Still, it’s a fundamental fact that a child may not be aware of all, neither he will be comfortable to keep on changing the websites to look for academic content available on open-source sites rather than Google. 

Another aim of Saarthi is to give school teachers and students a platform for discussion and knowledge sharing. Using the site, a student studying in Delhi may get academically connected with another student studying in Tamil Nadu and can share his subject queries, or may help him in his assignments by sharing his idea. Even more interestingly, if a teacher wants to initiate a discussion on any topic, he will be able to make so, and students from various part of the country would be able to get connected.

Saarthi is developed using WordPress and hosted with Bluehost. The open resources on the website categorised as curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular and further divided based on subjects.