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Newly converted education champion all the group’s philanthropic projects.
Among them the Bhagwan Mahaveer
Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
(BMCHRC) in Jaipur, a NABH- and
NABL-accredited 350-bed hospital
providing comprehensive cancer
care. And KGK Academy in Jaipur/
Surat to provide skills and training
programmes in gems and jewellery
design and manufacturing.
Direct talk. “After establishing
a cancer hospital and the KGK
Academy, we resolved to establish
a model K-12 school in Jaipur, our
home city in collaboration with Shri
Educare Ltd, which has a national
reputation for delivering K-12
education excellence. Our new The
Shri Ram Universal School will
provide students carefully designed
curriculums, well-trained teachers,
contemporary and experiential
Sanjay (left) & Navrathan Kothari (centre): giving back to society pedagogies, entrepreneurship
and social-emotional well-being
ANJAY KOTHARI is Vice dated the KGK Group’s operations programmes. These are enriched
Chairman of the KGK Group in the commercial capital, in 1990 with excellent sports and co-
S(estb.1905, annual revenue: he moved to Hong Kong to launch curricular facilities to develop
Rs.12,000 crore), a Jaipur/Hong the group’s international business. well-rounded students capable of
Kong-based diamond, gemstones Over the next 35 years, Kothari competing with the best nationally
and jewellery conglomerate with successfully expanded operations to and internationally,” says Kothari,
offices in 20 countries and 18,000 Thailand, Japan, China, the US, UAE who expects TSRUS to operate at full
employees. Coterminously, he is and the group’s premium fine jewel- capacity with 3,700 students in the
also trustee of KGK Foundation, the lery brands including Entice, Martin next three years.
CSR (corporate social responsibil- Flyer, Gregg Ruth, flowered. Future plans. Kothari is focused on
ity) initiative of the group, providing With business operations well- scaling the foundation’s education
not-for-profit healthcare, education, established and running smoothly, ventures. “From 2026, the KGK
heritage conservation, art and crafts the Kothari family resolved to give Academy will offer structured and
and skills development services in back to society that had “enabled upgraded certificate courses to
the cause of national development. our expansion and development” by 1,500-1,600 students annually.
Newspeg. Last February, KGK registering the KGK Foundation last Moreover, we’re constructing a
Foundation entered the K-12 year. The objective of the foundation new IB-affiliated school in Jaipur,
education space by rebranding a is to “transcend boundaries to which will admit its first batch
CBSE-affiliated school in Jaipur create opportunities, nurture of children in 2026. Another
as The Shri Ram Universal School aspirations and lay the groundwork international school is also on the
(TSRUS). It has been launched in for a thriving future” for children drawing board. Once these are fully
collaboration with the Gurgaon- of economically weak sections of operational, we intend to expand
based Shri Educare Ltd. society. “I find pleasure only in our education footprint nationally.
History. An alumnus of HR Col- the smiles of the underprivileged Like EducationWorld, we also
lege of Commerce and Economics, and in the upliftment of society. believe that quality education is the
Mumbai, Sanjay is fourth generation For me, real contentment comes foundation of sustainable progress
of the Kothari family which has been only through philanthropy,” said and India achieving its Viksit Bharat
engaged in the precious and semi- Navrathan Kothari, patriarch of the and $30 trillion GDP goals by 2047,”
precious gems and jewellery business KGK Group after the foundation was he says.
for 120 years. After a few initial years registered in Jaipur in 2024. Wind beneath your wings!
in Mumbai during which he consoli- The KGK Foundation consolidates Autar Nehru (Delhi)

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