Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan may adopt Bhopal teacher’s AI Sanskrit gaming model nationwide

A Bhopal school has recommended an AI-assisted Sanskrit gaming lab built by one of its teachers to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan headquarters, proposing the model for national recognition and wider adoption across Kendriya Vidyalayas.

The lab was created by Abhishek Tiwari, who teaches Sanskrit at Bhopal’s PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya-1 school, after he grew frustrated that many students viewed the subject as one where they simply needed to score a passing mark. He used generative AI to mine NCERT textbooks for classes 6 to 10 and translate the objectives of NEP 2020 and the PM SHRI initiative into a free online portal of interactive games.

A key reason the model is being pitched for wider rollout is its cost: the lab was built entirely with free AI tools and required no special budget, making it easily replicable at other schools without additional funding. The portal includes games such as a frog-jump quiz, a word-search puzzle, and a module modelled on the quiz show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati.’

‘My objective is to make learning and understanding Sanskrit fun. The response, so far, has been very encouraging,’ Tiwari told TOI. He said students are voluntarily spending far more time on the games than on conventional homework, often replaying exercises until they master concepts, while fellow teachers said the self-paced format helps weaker learners without peer scrutiny.

The school said it has written to higher authorities to promote and recommend the AI-enabled learning model to other Kendriya Vidyalayas, describing it as an approach worth scaling given its low cost and early results.