Page 9 - Anirudh Gupta

DCM Snapshot

Estb: 1946
Institutions: 7
Students: 20,000
Faculty: 1,200

Institutions

DC Model Senior Secondary School, Ferozepur Awards & Encomiums
Cantonment (estb.1947)

DC Model Senior Secondary School, Faridabad Gupta’s entrepreneurial drive and determination to provide high-quality globally accept-
(1993)
able English-medium K-12 education to privileged as well as under-served and margin-
alised communities has been acknowledged by well-informed monitors of India’s K-12
education system. Among the awards conferred on him:
DC Model Senior Secondary School, Ambala
Cantonment (1994)

Educational Edupreneur of Year 2016 of the Indian Education Congress
DC Model International School, Ferozepur (2003)
National Education Excellence Award 2017 of Global Leaders Foundation

DCM Presidency School, Ludhiana (2009) Exceptional Educator Award 2018 of the American Board of Leaders

Edupreneur of the Year 2019 of Indian Didactics Association
Dass and Brown World School, Ferozepur
Cantonment (2013) Edupreneur of the Year 2019 at World Education Summit, Mumbai

DCM Presidency School, Elementary Campus, A committed and public-spirited evangelist for quality education for all, Gupta is an
Ludhiana (2014) active participant and office-bearer of several important organisations working towards
reforming the country’s laggard school education system. As incumbent chairman (North
Zone-II) of FICCI Arise, chairman of Global Edupreneurs Alliance, advisor (quality) of the
DCM Young Entrepreneurs School, Ludhiana National Independent Schools Alliance, chairman Education Committee PHD Chamber
& Mohali (under construction) of Commerce, Chandigarh and member NASSP (USA), Gupta has submitted numerous
papers and proposals for the development of India’s abundant but neglected human
capital. Moreover, as a frequent columnist and writer of the Press Trust of India — India’s
largest news agency — and the Tribune, Punjab’s most widely read English language dai-
ly newspaper, Gupta propagates his message of social equality and quality education for
all. “Unless and until the Central and state governments double their annual budgetary
allocations for public education, India will never become a developed nation,” he says.

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