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JAIRAJ C. THACKER

SUJAY JAIRAJ

Trustees, Jamnabai Narsee Group of Schools

third-generation scion of one of Mumbai’s oldest and most prominent business families
A — the late Seth Narsee Monjee (1887-1944) promoted Golden Chemicals Pvt. Ltd in 1941 —

Jairaj C. Thacker is managing trustee of the Narsee Monjee Educational Trust (NMET) and chairman
of the Jamnabai Narsee Group of Schools, Mumbai.

Promoted in 1970 by brothers Chatrabhuj, Pratap and Dharamshi Narsee in memory of their father
Seth Narsee Monjee, whose watchword was ‘Illuminate all with knowledge’, NMET established the
Jamnabai Narsee School (JNS) in 1971 in the then nascent Juhu Vile Parle Development Scheme area.
Since then after JNS evolved into one of Mumbai’s most respected K-12 day schools, in 2015 Thack-
er and his UK-educated son Sujay Jairaj promoted the greenfield Cambridge International/IB-affili-
ated K-12 Jamnabai Narsee International School, Mumbai (JNIS) and the CISCE-affiliated Jamnabai
Narsee School, GIFT City, Gandhinagar (Gujarat) under the NMET umbrella. All NMET schools are
highly ranked in the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20 with JNS ranked Mum-
bai’s #2 co-ed day school and JNIS #4 in the international day schools category. JNS and JNIS were
also ranked #1 in Mumbai in the national and international curriculum categories respectively of the
Times Education Icon Awards 2019. Moreover, the trust has given a major boost to higher education
in Mumbai in its capacity as “major donor” towards the construction and operationalisation of the
maximum city’s highly reputed Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics (estb.1964) and
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (1981).

"My father Chatrabhuj Narsee and his brothers were driven by a common belief in the transforma-
tive, nation-building power of high-quality globally benchmarked K-12 and higher education root-
ed in India’s best social and cultural traditions and values. Therefore, they registered NMET in 1970
to enable and empower children and youth with high quality education. Soon after they promoted
the Jamnabai Narsee School — named after my grandmother — which served as a laboratory to
translate their vision into action. Over the years, JNS has provided excellent enabling infrastructure
and modern pedagogies to ensure that every student receives high-quality academic learning sup-
plemented by culturally rooted co-curricular and sports education. Over 25 years later, the tried and
tested JNS model has been replicated in our two new schools promoted during the past five years,”
says Jairaj Thacker, also managing director of Golden Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.

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