Ranjitsinh Disale, the first Indian to win the $1-million (₹7.4 crore) Global Teacher Prize, is a teacher from the Zilla Parishad Primary School in Maharashtra's Paritewadi village. His interventions helped stop teenage marriages in the village and achieve 100% attendance of girls. Ranjitsinh learned Kannada to redesign the textbooks, along with QR codes that embedded audio poems and stories.