Following the advice of an advisory committee that Raghu was on, the Tamil Nadu government ran an after-school remedial programme run by community volunteers for 60–90 minutes daily in the evening, called Illam Thedi Kalvi (Education at Doorstep). By June 2022, it employed approximately 2,00,000 volunteers, who were residents of local communities with high-school or college degrees but were not necessarily trained teachers. The programme provided supplementary instruction to 3.3 million students,
