New Delhi, Feb 25 : Today, MongoDB for Academia announced that it is accelerating towards its goal of upskilling 500,000 Indian developers through strategic partnerships with two leading educational organizations: HCL GUVI, and the government of Telangana’s Academy for Skill and Knowledge These new partnerships will make AI and data skills accessible to even more Indian students by offering courses in local languages, and by expanding MongoDB’s geographic reach with the support of more than 100 academic institutions in Telangana.
Bridging the AI skills gap
India is home to one of the world’s largest tech talent pools, with millions of talented developers eager to contribute to the AI era. Unfortunately, much of this potential is offset by fragmented skill gaps, socio-economic disparities, and unequal access to resources. A 2025 Bain & Company report projects that India’s AI sector could surpass 2.3 million job openings by 2027, but the country’s skilled talent pool is expected to reach only around 1.2 million in the same year.
Closing this gap requires more than just teaching code; we must move students from being consumers of technology to builders of the AI-driven future. And key to this is mastering modern data architecture. Because AI applications are only as intelligent as the data they access, students must learn to build systems where data is a primary asset rather than a technical hurdle.
Launched in September 2023, the MongoDB for Academia India program provides training for students, curriculum resources for educators, free MongoDB credits, and certifications to help individuals develop skills relevant to starting careers in the technology industry. The team has already made great progress against its commitment of upskilling half a million students by 2028, reaching hundreds of thousands of students. To continue this momentum, MongoDB is forging partnerships across India that make industry-relevant education more inclusive and accessible.
HCL GUVI: Breaking language barriers for inclusive tech education
The first partnership is with HCL GUVI—an EdTech platform backed by multinational tech company HCL—that brings a language-first approach to tech skilling. Talent exists in every corner of India, and opportunity should too.
By integrating MongoDB’s world-class developer learning paths into HCL GUVI’s flagship software development programs, the partnership ensures that students benefit from practical, project-based experience with cutting-edge database technologies. HCL GUVI plans to offer the curriculum in multiple regional languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Hindi, empowering learners from diverse backgrounds to grasp complex concepts and build real-world skills. With this effort, MongoDB and HCL GUVI intend to empower over 150,000 students by 2030.
“Our mission has always been to equip learners with industry-ready skills, no matter where they come from,” said Arun Prakash, CEO of HCL GUVI. “This partnership with MongoDB directly addresses that challenge. By integrating MongoDB’s world-class curriculum into our multilingual platform, we are making advanced technical training far more accessible and helping ensure that students can build real-world confidence to compete globally, regardless of the language they speak.”
TASK: Expanding reach across Telangana’s institutions
The next partnership is with the Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK), which aims to strengthen talent development across the state of Telangana’s higher education network. Working with TASK’s nearly 100 institutions, MongoDB plans to deliver specialized courses with exclusive career-enabling resources directly to engineering and computer science students. These will include certifications and credits for MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB’s modern multi-cloud database.
“Our focus at TASK is on bridging the industry-academia gap and empowering Telangana’s young talent with the skills required to thrive in this digital economy,” said Shrikant Sinha, CEO of TASK. “MongoDB’s expertise in modern data and application development, combined with our ecosystem, will help drive meaningful outcomes for students across the state, especially those who haven’t had access to such cutting-edge tools before.”
Over the next three years, the MongoDB-TASK partnership aims to upskill an additional 50,000 students, while also creating a trained pool of educators who can drive sustainable impact.
Together, MongoDB’s partnerships with HCL GUVI and TASK are part of a unified approach that focuses on equipping students with future-ready skills while making tech education more accessible, inclusive, and aligned with industry needs. With HCL GUVI focusing on accessibility and TASK on industrial and regional capabilities, MongoDB’s developer-first learning ecosystem is reaching students at every level, and working to bring the future of tech engineering directly into classrooms, home screens, and local communities.