The COVID-19 Pandemic not only brought out the nation's digital divide into the open, but it also sped up attempts to make digital education accessible to everyone. Over 67.6 per cent of Indian families now have access to a device, and nearly 27.9 per cent of those households have purchased a smartphone for their child's education due to school closures. Efforts to provide the appropriate digital infrastructure to enable learning in this modern day are being undertaken under Samagra Shiksha with the objective of ensuring engaging, joyful, equitable, and inclusive education. 5.3.11 Best practices show the way It is innovative practices across the country that continue to reaffirm our faith in the scope and possibilities for bridging the gaps in school education, and veritably transforming it. Following are a few innovative initiatives that are transforming the educational landscape in states. yy Operation Kayakalp and Mission Prerna of Uttar Pradesh aim to saturate infrastructure in schools in eighteen basic parameters and improve the quality of education in 1.6 lakh schools with a special focus on foundational learning skills, respectively. yy Madhya Pradesh has initiated Shaikshik Samvad, or the CM Rise Teacher Professional Development Programme, with the objective of professional development of teachers in joyful and innovative methods of teaching and learning. yy Nadu Nedu of Andhra Pradesh is an initiative for transforming school infrastructure over a period of three years over three phases, by provisioning for major and minor repairs; toilets with running water; drinking water supply; painting of entire campus; electrification; English labs; compound wall; kitchen sheds, etc. yy In Gujarat, Daily Attendance is closely monitored through an online system at the Command and Control Centre yy Karnataka’s Student Achievement Tracking System (SAT), "Shikshana Kirana" is a project to track every child’s enrolment, retention, and progress in school through unique identity and name. yy Odisha: Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education Programme (MLE) aims to improve tribal students’ literacy by using mother tongue instruction in early Grades. yy Kerala has initiated crowd-sourcing for setting up community-level device banks for providing devices to all secondary level students at home along with data packs to ensure continuous learning. 62 Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Vol. 22, 2023