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Institution Profile

MS Dhoni Global School, Hosur

MSDGS is a unique sports focused holistic education partnership between
experienced educators and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s iconic and most
successful cricket captain in all formats of this sophisticated game

PAROMITA SENGUPTA
ITED ON A 16-ACRE ver-
dant campus in the Karna-
taka-Tamil Nadu border
Stown of Hosur, an industrial
hub which hosts the manufactur-
ing facilities of blue-chip companies
including Hindustan Motors, Tata
Electronics, Kansai Nerolac among
others, and a 20-minute drive from
Bengaluru’s Electronics City, the
new age M.S. Dhoni Global School
(MSDGS-H, estb.2022) is a unique
sports focused holistic education
partnership between experienced
educators and Mahendra Singh
Dhoni, India’s iconic and most suc-
cessful former cricket captain in all
formats — test, ODIs and T20s — of
this game described by historian
Ramachandra Guha as “the world’s
most sophisticated game”. Currently,
the K-12 MSDGS-H, affiliated with
the Delhi-based CBSE examination
board, has 2,348 children mentored
by 152 highly qualified teachers on Chandrasekhar (centre left) with Dhoni: sports-focused holistic education
its muster rolls.
Promoted under the aegis of the of global leaders equipped to manage education. It includes 120 minutes
Hosur-based Shree Sharada Educa- challenges of the future. With a of physical activity daily, specially
tional Trust (estb.2009) registered teacher-pupil ratio of 1:15, we pride designed to keep children fit. We
by Chairman R. Chandrasekhar, ourselves on bestowing individual also accord high importance to the
for 12 years the school had a col- attention upon all students,” says welfare and professional develop-
laboration agreement with Mumbai- Chandrasekhar, an engineering ment of our teachers. All of them
based Zee Learn Ltd. In 2022, the graduate of Madras University, a are certified Microsoft Innovative
Sharada Trust management conclud- nationally awarded decathloner, and Educator Experts. All this adds up
ed the collaboration with Zee Learn chairman of MSDGS-H. to our institutional objective which
and signed up a strategic alliance Promoted as a “futuristic educa- is to develop future-ready leaders
partnership with M.S. Dhoni. The tional institute”, MSDGS-H’s “seven in academics, sports, sciences and
trust also owns and manages another foundational pillars” are maths, technology,” says Bhuvaneswari
affiliated K-12 school in HSR exten- sports, interpersonal/intra-personal C, chairperson of the Sharada Trust
sion, Bengaluru (Bangalore) which intelligences, science, technology, and senior principal of MSDGS-H, a
has an enrolment of 785 children social pedagogy and arts. In Janu- physics and business management
mentored by 62 teachers. ary, the school inaugurated a Hybrid alumna of PSG College, Coimbatore
“At MSDGS-H, we firmly believe Learning Node classroom which con- with 14 years of teaching and admin
that holistic education — with focus nects it with its Bangalore affiliate experience.
on sports and physical fitness, ap- and schools countrywide to enable The school’s impressive academic
preciating nature and developing collaborative learning. In 2022, the infrastructure includes an academic
curious minds — is essential for school was conferred the Grand Jury building that houses 95 spacious and
children’s optimal development. Award of EducationWorld for ‘Best well-ventilated Smart classrooms
Apart from our attention to sports school using STEM technology’. in Da Vinci-styled studios themed
education, we are a Microsoft “The school’s USP is our 360-de- with colourful imprints of botany
showcase school wholly committed gree curriculum which optimally and other natural elements, eight
to providing contemporary digitally- integrates academics, sports, co- laboratories (Atal Tinkering, phys-
enabled education for the nurturance curricular activities and life skills ics, chemistry, biology, computer

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