“Science principles are best understood if they are incorporated into play toys,” says Arvind Gupta, coordinator of the Children‚s Science Centre of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, a hi-tech research facility open to scientists of all Indian universities. An electronics engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, and winner of several […]
When the Chennai-based Prasad Group, Asia’s largest provider of post-production services in the film and video industry, promoted the L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy in 2005 to commemorate 50 years of the Prasad Group (established in 1956 by veteran filmmaker L.V. Prasad), highly regarded film director, educator and columnist K. Hariharan was the unanimous […]
Although Vinayak V. Dalvie has been the Mumbai-based deputy secretary (education) to the governor of Maharashtra since November 2003, serving first with erstwhile governor Mohammed Fazal and currently with the incumbent SM Krishna, he prefers to regard himself as a teacher. “When I accepted this assignment in the governor‚s mansion, I requested I should be […]
Following the rapid growth and development of India‚s IT, particularly the computer software industry, Indian IT firms are establishing their footprints worldwide, especially in the high-growth economies of China, South Africa, New Zealand and Malaysia. One of the latest such initiatives in the high-growth IT hardware and networking training space is a collaboration agreement between […]
Kolkata-based businessman SHEKHAR MEHTA is the newly appointed president of the Chicago (USA)-based Rotary International (RI, estb.1905) — the well-known international public humanitarian service organisation with a membership of 1.2 million in 200 countries. Mehta is the fourth Indian president of the apex-level RI.
Bally (Kolkata)-based software engineer SAPTARSHI BAISHYA (25) is founder-promoter of the Maitreyo Foundation (MF, estb.2019) which runs Maitreyo Paathshala, a learning centre that provides free-of-charge education to children of the Birhor tribe, in Bersha village located in West Bengal’s Purulia district.
Newspeg. In January this year, MF signed a partnership […]
Gurugram-based ANEESH BANGIA is co-founder of Open Door, an initiative of Think-First Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.2013), an edtech company headquartered in Bengaluru which offers K-12 school programmes to leverage the “power of inquiry to transform young learners into curious and better thinkers”. Open Door has signed up over 200 top-ranked […]
Sudheshna Sinha and husband Sujit are co-founders of Shikshamitra (‘Education Mate’), an alternative school and education resource centre (estb. 2005). A psychology graduate of Calcutta University with a special needs education diploma from Mumbai University, Sudeshna has worked in special and mainstream schools for over seven years. An IIT-Kanpur alumnus with a doctorate from Princeton […]
Arghya Banerjee is founder of The Levelfield School in Suri (pop. 80,000) in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. The school was promoted in 2010 by the Levelfield Trust whose mission and objective is to “level the playing field” and make quality education accessible and affordable to middle class households in tier-II and III urban habitations.
Chennai-based V. Karthikeyan and wife Veena are the promoter partners of Passaro Books (estb. 2012), a proprietary firm which imports pre-owned books from the UK for children in the 1.5-12 years age group.
Newspeg. Passaro Books runs retail and online bookshops with over 50,000 titles, and has created quite a buzz in this port city, which prides itself on its intellectual […]
Delhi-based Akshay Munjal, a science and business management alum of Bradford University, UK, and Pepperdine University, USA, is executive director of the spanking new state-of-the-art, BML Munjal University (BMU) spread over 50 acres in Manesar (Gurgaon), on the periphery of Delhi.
Newspeg. Named after Brij Mohan Lall Munjal, the founder-chairman of the Hero Group of 20 companies (annual revenue: […]
Edupreneur Dr. Anita Sharma is the Jaipur-based co-founder of Stuprorefying Pvt. Ltd aka Inkpothub (estb.2018), a unique networking platform for research scholars, professors and students to collaborate, organise research studies and share knowledge. A polio survivor, Sharma is also the founder of Drive On My Own (DOMO, estb.2018), the country’s first driving school […]
Mahesh Rao (left) & Sardesai: established proof of concept
Mahesh Rao is the energetic promoter-director of the Bengaluru (aka Bangalore)-based Prose Education Academy Pvt. Ltd (PEA, estb.2017). This company provides online academic education to class VI-XII children enrolled in sports academies across the country. Its prime objective is to provide “necessary academic […]
Dr. Rosetta Williams is the Delhi-based CEO of the Dalmia Vidya Mandir (DVM, estb.1924) chain of eight schools promoted by the Dalmia Bharat Group of cement, sugar and refractory companies (annual revenue: Rs.1,210 crore). Currently, the CBSE-affiliated Dalmia Vidya Mandir schools educate an aggregate 15,000 students in six states (Rajasthan, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, […]
A.K. Srikanth is chief executive officer of the Bengaluru-based KLAY Preschools and Daycare (Founding Years Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd, estb.2012) — a chain of over 150 owned pre-primaries and daycare centres — well-reputed for high-quality curriculums and safety standards.
Newspeg. In its latest education initiative after Covid-19 hit India […]
Alumni of Calcutta University — Nilotpal Barman (25), Raju Das (25), and Mira Barman (23) — are co-founders of Ananda Niketan Pathshala (ANP, estb.2020), a free-of-charge learning centre-cum-primary school for children from predominantly Muslim and tribal households of Shitaliya village (pop.20,000) sited deep in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangroves delta. ANP’s six […]
Sabuj Pathshala (‘green school’), a Kolkata-based voluntary organisation, has established three lower primary (class I-IV) schools for underprivileged children of Muslim and tribal communities in the Malda, Jalpaiguri and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal.
This NGO was promoted in 2006 by Kolkata-based journalists Milan Dutta and Syamantak Ghosh, together with software engineer Arijit Das […]
Manek Daruvala is the Hyderabad-based co-founder of test prep company TIME (Triumphant Institution of Management Education) Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1992). With over 40 IIT/IIM graduates in its core team, TIME offers school and college-leavers rigorous coaching to write competitive entrance exams for admission into professional study programmes and employment in banks and corporates. […]
Sandeep Jain is the Noida-based founder-CEO of geeksforgeeks.org, a website popular with computer science students and IT (information technology) professionals. Launched in 2015, it offers aid and advice to engineering students preparing for job interviews, and useful content and solutions for IT problems and glitches.
Newspeg. Recently, the website — awarded a global Internet […]
Delhi-based Natasha Jain and Agra-based Sonia Agarwal Bajaj are co-founders of a new e-learning and skills development platform Whiz League (estb.2021). Each course provides subscribers invaluable insights from industry leaders by way of pre-recorded lectures.
Newspeg. Since it was launched in April, this app has been […]
Sarang Gangan is founder-CEO of the Gurugram-based Eduphoria Solutions LLP (estb.2017, headcount: 10), an edtech start-up that offers primary-secondary schools a bouquet of solutions to promote hands-on STEM learning and enhance quality and disseminate science and tech education countrywide.
Currently, the company provides end-to-end solutions for installing customised innovation […]
Diane Janknegt is CEO and co-founder of the Amsterdam-based Wizenoze B.V. (estb. 2013), an edtech company which offers learners access to education content and resources on the Internet commensurate with their age and reading levels. During the past eight years since its incorporation, the company’s products — Wizeup and Web for Classrooms — […]
Bengaluru-based Ashish Gupta is founder-director of Bambinos Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd (BLS, estb.2020, headcount: 20), a digital learning academy offering 40 specially curated extracurricular programmes ranging from teachings of the Bhagawad Gita, learning musical instruments to robotics and coding. These programmes focus on the “physical, mental, spiritual and intellectual development” of children in the 4-15 […]
Rajat Singhal, CEO and Kunal Singhal, CTO, are co-founders of the Cyboard School, an online K-8 primary launched on February 17. They are also co-founders of the City Public School (estb.2017), a K-8 school in Bhiwadi (Alwar district), Rajasthan and rising stars of the local business community. Determined to utilise new technologies to provide uninterrupted […]
Siliguri-based engineer-turned social researcher Anirban Nandy and wife Poulomi are co-founders of Live Life Happily (LLH, estb.2017), an NGO which runs a mobile library and sanitary pad bank for children of tribal communities in 30 villages and 16 tea gardens in five northern districts of West Bengal. The mobile library houses 7,000 textbooks for class […]
Shrishti Jain is the cerebrally-driven founder CEO of Reading Right (estb.2013), a Kolkata and Delhi-based proprietary firm which she believes is ready, willing and able to give a huge boost to the learning outcomes of a wide spectrum of learners ranging from school children, college, university students to business executives. Following intensive research over seven […]
Rishab Khanna is the founder-CEO of surasaa.com, an edtech platform providing internationally benchmarked teacher development programmes in India and abroad. Designed and developed by Les Transformations Learning Pvt. Ltd, a company registered in Karnal, Haryana, surasaa.com was launched in 2018 and provides online teacher training and professional development programs to aspiring and in-service educators […]
Pinaki Ganguly is the incumbent secretary of Sri Sri Ramkrishna Vivekananda Vidyapith, a new K-II school established by the Rural Organisation for Social Establishment (ROSE) in Charida, a tiny village (pop. 2,500) in West Bengal’s most backward Purulia district. The school with an enrollment of 77 students (45 boys and 32 girls) instructed by four […]
Rajesh Bhatia is the founder-managing director of Tree House Education & Accessories Ltd (estb. 2006), and promoter of one of India’s largest self-operated preschool chains with 444 (including 340 company-owned) centres. The publicly listed company employs 1,848 staff including 1,758 teachers in 55 cities and towns countrywide, and recorded a revenue of Rs.121 crore in […]
FORMER INDIA tennis player and coach of many Davis Cup stars, and co-founder of Bangalore’s top-ranked The Magical Years (TMY) preschool, Krishna Bhupathi is all set to launch The Village School (TVS), a primary-secondary which in the fullness of time will roll out into a fully-fledged Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE), UK-affiliated class I-XII co-ed […]
Mark Dorman is president of McGraw Hill Education International and Professional, a division of McGraw Hill Education, the well-known multinational teaching development and learning solutions company based in New York (successor to The McGraw Publishing Company, estb.1888). As divisional president, Dorman manages the company’s international operations and professional reference business, which includes a 6,000-titles ebooks […]
Ratnesh Kumar Jha is the Delhi-based managing director (South Asia) of Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd (CUP). An alumnus of JNU and Delhi universities and the Kellogg School of Management, USA, Jha began his professional career with Citibank, USA, and served with GE Capital, Reliance Telecom, Vodafone and Educomp Solutions (2010-2013) prior to signing […]
Mumbai-based Bhupendra Acharya and Bhavana Sharma are founder-directors of Taj Eduglobe Ltd (TEL, estb.2015), a new-age company offering aptitude testing and career development services to students individually and through educational institutions. Under its Discover Brain programme, the company offers psychometric testing services — Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Tests (DMIT) and mark enhancement techniques (MET) — which […]
Highly articulate educator and serial entrepreneur Kavish Gadia is the founder-CEO of Gurugram (Haryana)-based Stones2Milestones Pvt. Ltd (S2M, estb.2008, headcount: 300). This edtech start-up offers schools, teachers and parents diagnostic, affordable and research-based English reading and literacy solutions for children in the 5-12 age group.
Through its globally benchmarked flagship fREADom mobile app […]
Delhi-based Shikha Agnihotri is state president of the Delhi Public Safety & Security Council (DPSSC) of the Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI), a representative organisation of women entrepreneurs and business leaders countrywide. A seasoned travel professional, she is also promoter of Young Edsplorer Pvt. Ltd (YEPL, estb.2015), an education consultancy […]
Amit Agrawal is founder-CEO of Gurugram (Haryana)-based Whiz Kidz Media Pvt. Ltd (estb.2015). Whiz Kidz is an edtech company that offers preschools, primary schools and parents of tier-II-III cities and towns, digital English learning lessons in seven vernacular languages.
Through its flagship product OckyPocky, an English self-learning application launched in 2017 that can […]
Kolkata-based entrepreneur Kamal Prakash is co-founder of Dakshini Prayash (DP, estb.1994), an NGO which runs the free-of-charge Madurdaha Satyavritti Vidyalaya (MSV), a primary school in South 24 Parganas district.
Founded in 1994 with four students learning under trees cover, MSV is now housed in two buildings in which 400 pre-primary to class VIII […]
Shraddha Fogla (35) is founder of 2monkeysandme (estb.2018), a Kolkata-based online portal for parents of children aged six months to nine years. Parenting advice apart, the portal features home activities, games, science experiment modules, STEM and DIY activities to boost children’s sensory, motor skills and cognitive […]
An alumnus of North-Eastern Hill and Lucknow universities, Sushma Raturi is the first dean of the newly launched Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad. The academy provides online teacher training modules in 12 domains including content development and structural planning, leadership and assessment […]
Ekta Grover is founder of the mint new Shunya Impact Pvt. Ltd (estb.2020), Bengaluru, which has designed the Shunya Intelligent Classroom Learning Management System (LMS) mobile app for K-12 students. Based on latest machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, Shunya LMS enables students and teachers to […]
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