The Hole in Wall education project or Hole in wall learning station is a unique concept designed by Dr Sugata Mitra ,Chief scientist emeritus, NIIT. The Hole in Wall Learning Station has been created to promote minimal invasive education.

As part of this project a learning station is installed in a hole in the wall. The learning station displays innovative educational content to spark children’s curiosity. Powered by solar energy, they provide a truly uninterrupted experience. This project has led to a drop in the number of school drop-outs and improved attendance while enabling high impact group learning through knowledge sharing.

Formally called Minimally Invasive Education, this innovative methodology was first tested in a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, in 1999. The experiment was replicated in two other rural sites in the same year. The first adopter of the idea was the Government of NCT of Delhi. In 2000, the Government of Delhi set up 30 Learning Stations in a resettlement colony. This project is ongoing and continues to create a tremendous impact among generations of young learners.

A national research program was started, in which Learning Stations were set up in 23 locations across rural India. In 2004, the Hole-in-the-Wall reached Cambodia through the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Since 2013, NIIT Foundation has already implemented more than 100 Hole in the Wall Learning Stations.  In India there are approximately 6,40,000 villages and NIIT Foundation has the mandate to have a Hole-in-the-Wall kiosk in each of these villages.