Wearing a clean, navy-blue school uniform with a sky-blue shawl draped over her shoulders, 14-year-old Khaushaliya Kumari is sociable and relaxed as she goes through her daily routines.

Children in engaged in group activities in their school in Potka block of East Sighbhum in the central Indian state of Jharkhand.

Students at a primary school in Madhya Pradesh introduced to the concept of Activity Based Learning (ABL), an initiative of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan supported by UNICEF.

Children crowd at the window of a classroom at Feeder School in Mesaki Island of Dibrugarh District, Assam, 'The Boat of hope' supports community-managed school initiatives to increase children's access to primary education in the remote River Islands.

Eleven-year-old Lakshmi used to wake up early each morning to prepare breakfast of for her family in village Rajapur in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.