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If 2021-22 is not declared a zero edgeable sample respondents who
year, the pressure and stress our rate India’s Top 3,000 schools on 14
children will experience while try- parameters of school education ex-
ing to catch up with two years of cellence. (Please see EW November
lost learning will be intense. Online 2021 p.34) – Editor
education has severe limitations and
there’s no denying the enormous
academic loss in all schools. Peer Disappointing omission
interaction, group studies, personal- WE ARE readers of EducationWorld
ity development, physical and mental for the past several years now. It is
well-being, all require on-campus with great interest that we read your
schooling. There is no time to waste. annual EW India School Rankings
Declare 2021-22 a zero academic issue. But each time, it disappoints
year to save our children’s future. us to find no mention of our school
Chaitra Raju on E-MAIL — Army Public School, Barrackpore.
Sited in the country’s oldest canton-
FEBRUARY 2022 ment on the outskirts of Kolkata,
Commendable mission our CBSE-affiliated school has an
EDUPRENEUR Shveta Raina’s en- enrolment of 3,724 students with
Corruption indignation deavour to prepare students’ profes- outstanding results year on year. We
KUDOS FOR a well-written cover sional competencies and workplace will be gratified if EducationWorld
story exposing the unchecked cor- skills is truly inspirational (‘People’, and its survey team can widen its
rupt practices destroying Indian edu- EW February). Her mission is horizon to include institutions like
cation (EW February). I agree with commendable because for decades, ours in its annual rating and rank-
Dr. Seetharamu when he says that Indian higher education has failed to ings exercise.
corruption in Indian education has address the issue of student employ- Dr. Moitreyee Mukherjee
been allowed to fester and multiply ability. I wish her all success! Principal, Army Public School,
because of negligence of the Central Nikunj Shah BARRACKPORE
and state governments. AHMEDABAD
The huge scams in teacher ap- Please complete the EW India
pointments in government schools School Rankings survey form on
and malpractices in the TET (Teach- Severe displeasure our website www.educationworld.
er Eligibility Test) highlighted by you WE WOULD like to express our in – Editor
are an indicator of the deep rot in the severe displeasure with the ranking
system. How can we expect delivery given in the recent EW India School
of quality education when teachers Rankings 2021-22 (EW November Ranking thanks
purchase their posts by paying bribes 2021) to S.N. Vidya School, Ambala. THE TEACHERS, students and staff
to fraudulently qualify as teachers in Your survey team has ranked our of Meena Sankar Vidyalaya would
government schools? school #6 in Ambala, #22 in Hary- like to thank EducationWorld and
Stringent legislation and punish- ana state and all-India #178 among the survey team for ranking us the
ment is the need of the hour to curb co-ed day schools. This is totally #1 co-ed day school in Tirunelveli.
the corruption menace. unacceptable. It was a humbling experience for us
Sandeep Balakrishnan on E-MAIL We want to know on what basis when we attended your well-organ-
your esteemed magazine has pub- ised awards ceremony in Gurugram
lished these rankings. I request you last December.
Declare zero academic year to share the source of your informa- Meena Sankar Vidyalaya was

I AGREE with your Special Report tion as our reputation as a 37-year- started on the request of a group of
proposing 2021-22 be declared a old school has been severely dented. parents in Tirunelveli who wanted
zero academic year (EW February). Neelinderjeet Kaur Sandhu a CBSE school to provide their chil-
As you rightly state, this is the best Director-principal dren a holistic education experience.
option for pre-primary and primary S.N. Vidya School, AMBALA We extend an open invitation to your
students. Remedial education makes team to visit our school.
no sense especially for pre-primary The EducationWorld India School Lakshmi Anumolu
children who have never attended Rankings surveys are based on the Director, Meena Sankar Group of
school. perceptions of over 11,000 knowl- Schools, TIRUNELVELI

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