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Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan wenty-five years ago, the eve of the new millennium was an era of
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, global hope and optimism. After over two decades of spearheading
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); a movement to jettison the neta-babu licence-permit-quota regimen
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. that had strangled Indian business and industry for over 40 years
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); your publisher-editor came to the conclusion that post-liberalisation India
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta needed to urgently reform its obsolete education system which had failed to
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); develop the nation’s abundant and high-potential human capital, if it was not
Shyama Thakore (London)
to remain a poor and backward nation. Thus was born EducationWorld — The
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ment “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the No.1 item
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