Our Story

Founded on one mandate

eLMNOP Innovative Education and Research Pvt. Ltd. was founded in May 2013 with a simple mandate: bring high-quality, ICT-driven education to the schools India's education system reaches last. We conduct subject tutoring, e-learning, and value-based education programs, and run workshops that bring ICT into rural classrooms — both in person and online.

We believe digital literacy isn't a side project for Indian education policy — it's core to it. Everything we build is designed to bridge the digital divide between teaching communities that have access to technology and the ones that don't.

Our flagship program, the Global Classroom Initiative, was created for exactly this reason: to connect Indian schools — especially in rural India — to global experts through high-tech tools and strategic partnerships, building ICT skills and confidence in teachers and students alike.

What We've Built So Far

  • E-learning programs
  • Student development initiatives
  • Teacher training curricula
  • Girls and women empowerment programs

Each has been tested and refined inside real Indian schools and colleges — not designed in a boardroom and shipped in. That grounding is what let the Global Classroom Initiative grow into a recognized platform for global education.

Our Journey

From one village to a movement

20 May 2013

eLMNOP is incorporated

eLMNOP Innovative Education and Research Pvt. Ltd. is founded in Pune, with a mandate to bring ICT-driven education to the schools India's system reaches last.

2013–2015

The Global Classroom Initiative launches

The flagship program takes shape: connecting rural schools to global experts, and building the six-step process — school selection, community buy-in, CSR support, connectivity, teacher orientation, and launch.

Ongoing

Mulshi Taluka pilot

The villages of Hinjewadi, Maan, Sutarwadi, and Botarwadi become the proof-of-model: teacher literacy, higher enrollment, and a repeatable template for the next village.

Recognition

DPIIT Startup Recognition

eLMNOP is certified by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Government of India — Certificate No. DIPP9196.

29 July 2026

Reopening on Guru Purnima

With the blessing of Sanyasi Baba, eLMNOP formally reopens — carrying the same conviction forward: a child's postcode should never decide their future.

Santosh Talaghatti, Founder and CEO of eLMNOP.

Santosh Talaghatti

Founder & CEO, eLMNOP

★ Pioneer, Global Classroom Initiative
About Our Founder

A decade building India's digital-education movement

Santosh Talaghatti is a Change Management professional working across Education, Health, and e-Governance, with over a decade of hands-on experience in Education Technology and social change. He founded eLMNOP out of a conviction that the right to education is universal — and that technology, used well, is the fastest way to make that right real for a rural Indian classroom.

Under his leadership, eLMNOP's team grew to include 7 core members spanning education, innovation, marketing, and fundraising — backed by a network of 100 interns and more than 1,000 educators worldwide, delivering Global Classroom sessions in Zilla Parishad schools across Maharashtra.

“With books, you can only learn as much as the pages offer. But there is no end to possibilities in a global classroom. It becomes the ladder to do things better, and I have seen the outlook of students change — they just need a little push in the right direction.”
— Santosh Talaghatti, Founder, eLMNOP · Sunday Times of India, Pune
Change Management EdTech & ICT in Education e-Governance Rural Empowerment Digital India
Santosh Talaghatti kneeling to talk with children, holding a book, during an outreach visit.
Outreach, one conversation at a time
Santosh Talaghatti conducting a teacher training session.
Leading a teacher training session
Santosh Talaghatti with a large group of students at an outdoor Global Classroom session.
With students during a Global Classroom visit
Guru Purnima · 29 July 2026

On this Guru Purnima, I offer my blessings and best wishes to Santosh Talaghatti, for the vision and persistence behind eLMNOP's founding, and for all that this platform can still become.

— Sanyasi Baba, Mentor & Guru

AnA Ji, Co-Founder and mentor across Santosh Talaghatti's mission-led ventures.

AnA Ji

Co-Founder & Mentor

★ Women's Empowerment & Change Leadership
Co-Founder

AnA Ji

AnA Ji is a dedicated and visionary professional known for her impactful leadership across Santosh Talaghatti's mission-led ventures, including eLMNOP. Committed to finding the right strategies for creating meaningful impact, she focuses on empowering women and the emotional well-being of communities through mentoring, coaching, and consultancy — the same conviction that shapes eLMNOP's Girls & Women Empowerment strand.

As a creative leader in change management and capacity building, she brings a compassionate, holistic approach to education and growth, championing the enhancement of professionals in project management, change management, and soft skills. Her continuous pursuit of identifying and solving fundamental problems complements eLMNOP's own grassroots, village-by-village approach to rural transformation.

Women Empowerment Emotional Wellbeing Change Management Mentoring & Coaching
Our Team & Network

A small core team, coordinating a very large network

eLMNOP isn't a 7-person company pretending to operate at scale — it's a small core team that coordinates a very large network of educators and volunteers.

7

Core team

Spanning education, innovation, marketing & fundraising

100

Interns

Supporting programs on the ground

1,000+

Educators worldwide

The backbone of the Global Classroom model

100s

Global experts & volunteers

The people rural students actually meet on screen

Innovation in Education — a network graphic showing the global reach connecting students, teachers, and experts.
Innovation in Education — the global expert network that makes every Global Classroom session possible.
Recognition

DPIIT-recognized Startup

eLMNOP is recognized as a startup by India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT, formerly DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India — Certificate No. DIPP9196, incorporated as a Private Limited Company on 20 May 2013.

Startup India

DIPP Certificate No. DIPP9196

See how it works

Discover the Global Classroom Initiative — the program that turns this story into practice.