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Pictorial Essay

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22

Dr. Dilip Modi

Dr. Dilip Modi (right) & Mrs. Modi receives award from Prof. John
Varghese (centre right) & Rajiv Desai (centre)

r. Dilip Modi is promoter-chairman of the Jhunjhunu Modi were grouped under the umbrella of Jivem Educa-
(Rajasthan)-based JIVEM Education Pvt. Ltd, a K-12 tion. Since then, Jivem Education has transformed into the
Dschools management and consultancy company. region’s premier education management and consultancy
During the past 39 years since Dr. Modi, a commerce company with a client list of 27 schools which have been
postgraduate of Mumbai University, began his career by transformed into nationally benchmarked pre-primary and
promoting a test prep centre under the name and style secondary schools. In the same year, Jivem Education be-
of GyanKutir in 1983, he has undertaken several path- gan to prepare school-leaving students for the IIT-JEE and
breaking initiatives which have transformed the backward NEET national entrance exams. In 2011, he was awarded a
district of Jhunjhunu (pop. 21 million) into an education Ph D by Singhania University, Rajasthan.
hub of Rajasthan. Dr. Modi’s latest initiative is the establishment of a Multi
A decade after the GyanKutir Institute had established Sports Complex equipped with state-of-the-art indoor and
a statewide reputation for preparing students for examina- outdoor infrastructure and synthetic courts and grounds.
tions of the state board, in 1993 Dr. Modi promoted Jhunj- Spread over a 35-acre campus in the CBSE-affiliated Jhun-
hunu Academy, the first K-10 English-medium day board- jhunu Academy, the complex will provide high-quality
ing school in the district. In 1999, one of the academy’s coaching in cricket, lawn tennis, badminton, gymnastics,
students was ranked among the Top 10 in the Board of Sec- archery, pistol shooting, table tennis, volleyball, basket-
ondary Education, Rajasthan exam — a first for any school ball, roller-skating, karate, wrestling, kabaddi, boxing
in the district and placed the Jhunjhunu Academy on the and track and field events. For this initiative, Jhunjhunu
education map of the state. Following pressing demand Academy has been officially declared a Fit India School
from citizens, in the millennium year 2000, the K-10 Jhun- by the Union government. “India has the world’s largest
jhunu Academy was upgraded into a fully-fledged K-12 se- and most high-potential population of children and youth.
nior secondary school offering Arts, Science and Commerce Providing them high-quality academic, co-curricular and
streams to higher secondary students. Currently, the state fitness-cum-sports education is the prerequisite of national
board-affiliated Jhunjhunu Academy has 4,000 students development. In Jivem Education, we are determined to
mentored by 300 teachers on its muster rolls. do our best to develop the country’s human capital,” says
In 2006 with the objective of providing the children of Dr. Modi.
Jhunjhunu the benefit of a national curriculum education, For his sustained commitment to provide high-quality
Dr. Modi promoted a second K-12 Jhunjhunu Academy af- nationally benchmarked K-12 academic and holistic 360
filiated with the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary degree education to the children of Jhunjhunu district
Education (CBSE), the first private day-cum-residential and Rajasthan, the Editors and Board of Directors of Edu-
CBSE school of the district. Currently, this school has 2,500 cationWorld are proud to present the EW Extraordinary
students and 105 teachers on its muster rolls. Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22 to
In 2010, all the education institutions promoted by Dr. Dr. Dilip Modi.

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