Paromita Sengupta MSDGS is a unique sports focused holistic education partnership between experienced educators and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s iconic and most successful cricket captain in all formats of this sophisticated game Sited on a 16-acre verdant campus in the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border town of Hosur, an industrial hub which hosts the manufacturing facilities of blue-chip companies including Hindustan Motors, Tata Electronics, Kansai Nerolac among others, and a 20-minute drive from Bengaluru’s Electronics City, the new age M.S. Dhoni Global School (MSDGS-H, estb.2022) is a unique sports focused holistic education partnership between experienced educators and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s iconic and most successful former cricket captain in all formats — test, ODIs and T20s — of this game described by historian Ramachandra Guha as “the world’s most sophisticated game”. Currently, the K-12 MSDGS-H, affiliated with the Delhi-based CBSE examination board, has 2,348 children mentored by 152 highly qualified teachers on its muster rolls. Promoted under the aegis of the Hosur-based Shree Sharada Educational Trust (estb.2009) registered by Chairman R. Chandrasekhar, for 12 years the school had a collaboration agreement with Mumbai-based Zee Learn Ltd. In 2022, the Sharada Trust management concluded the collaboration with Zee Learn and signed up a strategic alliance partnership with M.S. Dhoni. The trust also owns and manages another affiliated K-12 school in HSR extension, Bengaluru (Bangalore) which has an enrolment of 785 children mentored by 62 teachers. “At MSDGS-H, we firmly believe that holistic education — with focus on sports and physical fitness, appreciating nature and developing curious minds — is essential for children’s optimal development. Apart from our attention to sports education, we are a Microsoft showcase school wholly committed to providing contemporary digitally-enabled education for the nurturance of global leaders equipped to manage challenges of the future. With a teacher-pupil ratio of 1:15, we pride ourselves on bestowing individual attention upon all students,” says Chandrasekhar, an engineering graduate of Madras University, a nationally awarded decathloner, and chairman of MSDGS-H. Promoted as a “futuristic educational institute”, MSDGS-H’s “seven foundational pillars” are maths, sports, interpersonal/intra-personal intelligences, science, technology, social pedagogy and arts. In January, the school inaugurated a Hybrid Learning Node classroom which connects it with its Bangalore affiliate and schools countrywide to enable collaborative learning. In 2022, the school was conferred the Grand Jury Award of EducationWorld for ‘Best school using STEM technology’. “The school’s USP is our 360-degree curriculum which optimally integrates academics, sports, co-curricular activities and life skills education. It includes 120 minutes of physical activity daily, specially designed to keep children fit. We also accord high importance to the welfare and professional development of our teachers. All of them are certified Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts. All this adds up to our institutional objective which is to develop future-ready leaders in academics, sports, sciences and technology,” says Bhuvaneswari C, chairperson of the Sharada Trust and senior principal of MSDGS-H, a physics and business management alumna of PSG College, Coimbatore with 14 years of teaching and admin experience. The school’s impressive academic infrastructure…
