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SAI Angan

Bhubaneswar

o provide youngest children professionally administered early childhood educa- ABOVE Arguably India's most capital-intensive early childhood care and education institution
T tion, Bijaya and Silpi Sahoo have promoted the SAI Angan preschool (estb.2015), nationwide, SAI Angan offers its 1,465 children aged 2-7 years globally benchmarked play-and-
billed as India’s largest preschool. This superbly equipped pre-primary with its fairyland learn facilities including a 50,000 sq. ft play park, a 2,000 sq. ft swimming pool, air-conditioned
campus offers children in the age group of 2-7, curriculum and pedagogies based on crèche facility, amphitheatre, sand pits, play stations, music, art and computer labs, auditorium
and gymnasium. Exceptionally for a pre-primary, the library houses 7,423 carefully curated
the multiple intelligences development theory. In the EducationWorld India Preschool children’s literature.
Rankings 2019-20, SAI Angan is ranked Bhubaneswar's #1 pre-primary school and in the
EW Grand Jury Awards 2019-20, it's ranked India's #1 future-ready preschool.

Moreover, this four-year-old preschool is among the select pre-primaries nationwide to
receive the International School Award 2018-21 of the British Council and is recognised
as a ‘Kindness Certified School’ by Kids for Peace, a US-based NGO. SAI Angan has also
been conferred the Hall of Fame Award 2019 of the Early Childhood Association of India.

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