-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Mohta: innovative solutions
Kolkata-based entrepreneur Manish Mohta is founder-director of edtech company Learning Spiral Pvt. Ltd (LSPL, estb.2019, headcount: 125) — a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kolkata-based Mohta Group of companies with interests in steel, power, copper, chemicals, and plastics (annual turnover: Rs.300 crore). Promoted five years ago, LSPL offers student assessment and online exams services to higher education institutions and school exam boards. Its proprietorial range of products — UCanManage, UCanApply, UCanAssess, UCanEvaluate, UCanLearn, UCanSecure, and Smart Exam — enable smoother provision of a variety of assessment services including question bank management, exam venue audits, and proctoring services to education institutions.
Over the past six years, LSPL has signed up 50 Central government and private universities (Jamia Millia Islamia, Banaras Hindu University, Graphic Era etc), six examination agencies (Public Service Commission of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal), six technical education boards (State Board of Technical Education, Bihar) and four school boards across 25 states and Union territories as clients.
Newspeg. Last December (2023), LSPL integrated generative AI into its exam solutions to smooth the educational services provided for institutions and students.
History. An alum of Delhi School of Engineering, and a business management graduate of the top-ranked Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Mohta began his career with the blue-chip Asian Paints followed by a decade long stint at Salasar Steel & Power before going solo and promoting LSPL in 2019.
Direct talk. “Learning Spiral was promoted with the objective of providing services and solutions to enable education institutions improve assessment and examination processes. All our services are powered by Amazon Web Services — the world’s most reliable cloud services provider engaged even by FaceBook and Twitter. Extensive domain expertise and valuable insights from academics of India’s leading universities have helped us develop and perfect our products. Our high-powered technical team ensures that our products not only draw on extensive academic knowledge, they also remain adaptable and highly responsive to user needs,” says Mohta.
Future plans. Encouraged by the public response to LSPL’s proprietorial products and services, Mohta has dynamic expansion plans for the company. “We intend to work with like-minded partners to broaden our market, capitalise on new opportunities, and introduce our innovative solutions to larger audiences in South-east Asia, MENA and European countries,” he says.
Fair winds!