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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla ecause of excessive commercialisation, institutional rank-
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan ings — corporate or education — tend to evoke wry smiles and
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, cynicism. With almost all media publications and television
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); news channels having clambered aboard the rankings and
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. awards bandwagon, some skepticism is inevitable and justi-
Parth Shah, Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); fied. However, it would be a mistake to tar all institutional ranking initiatives
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta with the same brush. For parents/students, objective rankings serve the very
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); useful purpose of enabling them to shortlist, even if not select, locationally and
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aptitudinally suitable institutions. Moreover school and HEI (higher education
EDITOR institution) rankings league tables serve the useful purpose of informing often
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CHIEF SUB-EDITOR darkness for most education institutions.
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