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Institution Profile

Bodhi International School, Jodhpur

Promoted a mere six years ago with a first batch of 96 students, the IB (Geneva) and
CAIE (UK)-affiliated BIS has quickly established an enviable reputation as the most admired
international day school of Rajasthan
PAROMITA SENGUPTA

N EXTRAORDINARY
latter day success story in
K-12 education is Bo-
Adhi International School,
Jodhpur (BIS, estb.2014). Pro-
moted a mere six years ago by the
city-based business tycoon Naresh
Bothra, his wife Nitu, brother Manoj
and Shailee Bothra and Namit Bhan-
dari, this co-ed K-12 school affiliated
with the offshore Geneva-based
International Baccalaureate (IB) and
Cambridge Assessment International
Education (CAIE, UK) exam boards,
has quickly established an enviable
reputation as the most admired in-
ternational day school of the western
state of Rajasthan (pop. 68 million).
Despite its recent vintage, BIS has
been ranked Rajasthan and Jodh-
pur’s #1 international day school
for three years consecutively in the BIS vista: extraordinary success story. Inset: Dr. Venunadhan Pillai
annual EducationWorld India School
Rankings. Moreover in 2019-20, the a highly capable principal coverage) offers 40
school was also conferred Educa- with international experi- air-conditioned ICT-
tionWorld’s Grand Jury Award in ence, and also investing enabled classrooms,
the category of career counselling heavily in teacher training separate labs for
leadership. Currently, this day school and professional develop- computer science (60
sprawled over a six-acre campus ment, we have been able terminals), physics,
with 175,000 sq. ft of built-up area in to maintain high teaching- chemistry, biology,
uptown Jodhpur (pop. 1.1 million), learning standards,” says STEM, media, language
has 693 students (including 259 Naresh Bothra, promoter- and mathematics. It also
girls) mentored by 79 well-qualified chairman of BIS. Naresh Bothra hosts a knowledge and
teachers on its musters. A business management resource hub housing
“I am delighted that within three alum of Jai Narain Vyas University, 9,000 volumes with 18 journal
years of admitting our first batch of Jodhpur with cost and works ac- subscriptions, built according to
96 children, BIS has sufficiently im- countancy and company secretary Cambridge International and IB
pacted Jodhpur’s educators, parents qualifications, Bothra is also the pro- specifications.
and teachers to establish itself as the moter-chairman of Bothra Interna- “Teacher training and profes-
city’s #1 international day school. tional, a partnership firm (estb.1994) sional development to ensure that
Launching BIS as an international that exports high-quality customised our faculty delivers best quality
school affiliated with Cambridge household and office furniture to 35 internationally benchmarked educa-
International and IB right from the countries worldwide. tion to our children is given high
start in a non-metro city, posed for- The school’s state-of-the-art priority in BIS, with workshops
midable staff recruitment problems. carefully landscaped campus conducted through the year to keep
But by casting our net wide to recruit (monitored by 24X7 CCTV our teachers abreast with emerg-

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