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Our school was established in ranking has put a question mark on
1931 by Sri Thiruvengadaswamy the credibility of your magazine.
Mudaliar who had the foresight and Suruchi Gandhi
vision to provide quality education Principal, Bal Bharati Public
for girl children. Though it started as School, Dwarka, NEW DELHI
an all-girls school, under the vision-
ary leadership of V.K. Surendra, the Academic reputation is only one of
founder’s grandson, ten years ago, the 14 parameters on which schools
it transformed into a co-educational are rated and ranked. Moreover, the
CBSE school which has adopted pro- sample respondents although well
gressive pedagogies and practices to informed, change from year to year.
meet the changing needs of society. My advice: build your brand equity
Our curriculum design is based on — Editor
recognition of the universal truth
that every child has the inherent
ability to learn well, and does so at Data not collected
NOVEMBER 15, 2020 her own unique pace. WE ARE VERY proud to be ranked
Srinivas Kuppa among the country’s Top 10 schools
Vice President, Strategy, Design & for over seven years. However, this
Implementation year’s ranking is unfair since no real
United in purpose Smt. Kamalabai Educational data was collected.
WE ARE ELATED that DPS, Greater Institution, BENGALURU We believe the Covid crisis made
Faridabad is ranked #48 nationally, it difficult for the survey team to
#27 in Haryana and #1 in Greater collect data from schools. A few re-
Faridabad in the co-ed day schools Haphazard rankings spondents can at best provide a one-
category in the latest Education- WITH REFERENCE TO the rating sided picture. The reality is that our
World India School Rankings 2020- and ranking of Bal Bharati Public students’ achievements have been
21 (EW November). School, Dwarka (BBPS) in the EW- phenomenal in national and interna-
We are thankful to Education- ISR 2020-21 (EW November), I am tional sports and cultural events. As
World for recognising our verve and amazed to find schools with lower part of our outreach initiatives, we
grit as an ambitious and student-cen- board exam averages being ranked have adopted a village and are focus-
tric school. This is the first time our above us in the co-ed day schools ing on providing education, primary
seven-year young school with two league tables. This year, our school’s health, drinking water and solar
outstanding CBSE results under our ranking has slipped from #66 in cookers. Moreover, our academic re-
belt, has been included in EWISR 2019 to #104 with no valid explana- sults have always been our strength.
although we are an ATL, ISA, GISA, tion provided for the same. Notably, But this year, we did not send our
Robert Bosch awardee school. Our our results and achievements have board results to you only because we
greatest achievement is the creation witnessed consistent growth year on thought they were not real scores.
of a 3,600-strong school community year. I earnestly request you to address
that is united in its purpose. BBPS is held in high public this issue. If not, we do not wish to
Surjeet Khanna esteem in terms of academic rigour participate in the survey because it
Principal with maximum number of NTSE/ sends a wrong message to the public.
DPS, GREATER FARIDABAD JSTSE selections. The school has Revathi Srinivasan
also received a record number of Director, Education and Principal
awards and accolades in academics, Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania
Institutional pride sports and co-curricular activities. It School, THANE

I THANK THE EW team for ranking is therefore surprising that a school
Smt. Kamalabai Educational Institu- which is head and shoulders higher I’m surprised you are unaware
tion, Bengaluru among the country’s than its contemporaries, is ranked that “data is not collected” from
Top 100 co-ed day schools and #15 lower than its peers. schools — The EW India School
in Karnataka and Bengaluru. Your We are regular subscribers of Rankings Surveys are based on
recognition validates our commit- EducationWorld since the past the perceptions of over 11,000
ment and efforts to ensure that we several years and have been recom- knowledgeable sample respondents
prepare our children for an uncertain mending the magazine to students who rate India’s Top 2,500
future. and teachers as well. This haphazard schools on 14 parameters of school

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