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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XI No.6

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Anand he prolonged closure of all education institutions following out-
Sudarshan (Bangalore); Dr. F.C. Kohli, Mala break of the novel Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 which has infected
Ramadorai, Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto,
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, over 7.6 million people and precipitated 428,000 fatalities world-
Kirit Mehta (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); wide, and 332,000 and 9,520 in India, has caused unprecedented
Dr. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. disruption of Indian education across the spectrum from pre-
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia primaries, all the way up to universities. School leaving and college semester
(Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); exams of the academic year 2019-20 have been postponed and classes of the
Shyama Thakore (London) academic year 2020-21 which should have begun in early June, are delayed

indefinitely. There’s no doubt that learning outcomes at all levels in Indian
EDITOR education which were far from satisfactory even prior to the pandemic, will
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be hit hard.
MANAGING EDITOR At this crucial time in the sorry education history of post-independence
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India which has criminally failed and neglected to develop the country’s
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR abundant and high-potential human resource, there’s urgent and critical
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Paromita Sengupta, Jeswant J.M, Gopi Chand N, need for experienced education leaders with proven track records in school
Akhila Damodaran (Bangalore), Autar Nehru and higher education to venture forth from their islands of excellence and
(Delhi) 9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) confront the bigger challenge of reviving the country’s pre-primary, K-12
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) and higher education systems rendered comatose by the 68-day nationwide
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lockdown decreed by prime minister Narendra Modi from March 25.
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