Aakash transforming into hybrid edtech firm after Byju's $1 bn acquisition

Aakash Educational Services will launch 106 new centres across the country in the next 5 months including reaching Tier-3 and Tier-4 cities and towns.

After getting acquired by Byju’s for $1 billion early this year, Aakash Educational Services (AESL) is transforming into a hybrid edtech firm and is expanding rapidly across the country.

AESL will launch 106 new centres across the country in the next 5 months. These will be a mix of extension centres and standalone centres.  In 1988, J C Chaudhry founded AESL as a tiny private coaching institute out of a room in West Delhi’s Ganesh Nagar. From 12 students in 1988, Aakash grew to 215 centres, with a student count of more than 250,000. The aim now is to have