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Pictorial Essay

Extarordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24

Dr. ArupMukhopadhyay

DR. JAGDISH GANDHI (2017)
ARUN KAPUR (2017)
DR. DEEPAK & DR. BHARTI MAD-
HOK (2017)
BEGUM ANEES KHAN (2018)
PRAMOD SHARMA (2018)
RATNA REDDY (2018)
AMARJYOTI GOHIL (2018)
DR. NISSAR AHMED (2019)
DR. SAROJ SUMAN GULATI (2019)
PAUL MACHADO (2019)
DR. GUNMEET BINDRA (2019)
SANJEEV BOLIA (2019)
G.S. MADHAV RAO (2021)
DR. ASHOK PANDEY (2021)
SHISHIR JAIPURIA (2022)
DR. GITA KARAN (2022)
Dr. Arup Mukhopadhyay (second from left) receives award & citation KIRAN PATEL (2022)
DR. BIJAYA K. SAHOO (2022)

n alumnus of the University of Calcutta, a chartered gressive new age primary-secondary education in the
biologist, environmentalist and educationist under-served areas of India and developing countries.
Atrained under the leadership of Dr. Eleanor My prime objective as an educator is to generate love
Duckworth of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, of learning in schools. This is a pre-condition of raising
Dr. Arup Mukhopadhyay is the Imphal-based Director of teaching-learning standards in educationally under-served
the Unacco Group of Schools, Manipur. Unacco Group communities in developing countries of the third world. It
comprises four CBSE-affiliated schools in Manipur with requires shaping collective leadership that provides bal-
an aggregate enrolment of 6,200 boys and girls mentored anced academic, co-curricular and sports education that
by 417 teachers. children need for their mental and emotional well-being.
In a career in K-12 education that began in 1990 at the During the recent ethnic violence in Manipur, we ensured
Mirambika School, Delhi run by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, that each and every one of our students received study ma-
Mukhopadhyay has served for 33 years with 11 progres- terials delivered at their doorstep so that learning never
sive multicultural international for profit and non-profit stops” says Dr. Mukhopadhyay.
schools in India, South-east-Asia, the Middle-East and A widely acknowledged expert on progressive education,
Africa. Among them: the top-ranked Rishi Valley School over the past decade Arup has been invited as a keynote
(KFI), Chittoor, and the Science Education Centre, Mal- speaker to the World Education Summit, New Delhi, 2019,
dives. In his long and distinguished career, Arup has been the African Leadership Summit in Dar-es-Salaam (2017-
the Founder-Executive Director of Royal Global School, 2020), Asian Summit on Education and Skills, Delhi from
Guwahati, Founder-CEO of Imperial School, Tanzania, 2018 onwards and the IDA and UAE Education Summit
Dar-es-Salaam, a high-end boarding school, and the Rung- on Year of Innovation & Creativity in Dubai (2016). In off-
ta Group of Schools, Chhattisgarh. Moreover, he is also duty hours, he is an avid trekker, rock-climber and wildlife
an education consultant advising the Aga Khan Education photographer.
Service in Tanzania, East Africa, and Bandhan Bank, India. In acknowledgement of his promotion, growth and de-
That's not all. He is also Executive-Director of Taktse Inter- velopment initiatives in educationally under-served com-
national School, Gangtok (Sikkim), a registered Centre for munities in India, South-East Asia, Middle East and Africa,
Cambridge and SAT, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Editors and Board of Directors of EducationWorld are
the Chartered Institute of Educational Resource Manage- pleased to present Dr. Arup Mukhopadhyay the Extraordi-
ment, Nigeria. nary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-
“My prime interest as an educator is to introduce pro- 24.

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