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Audience at EWISRA 2021-22: big comeback
104 cities countrywide including sizeable representation
from tier III and IV habitations such as Gir Somnath,
Mau, Fatehabad, Itanagar, Faizabad, Tirunelveli and
Bijnor, among others convening in Gurugram.
Moreover on the occasion, veteran educationist G.S.
Madhav Rao, chief advisor of the Mumbai-based Ko-
thari Group and Vasal Education Society, Punjab and Dr.
Ashok Pandey, director of the Ahlcon Group of Schools,
Delhi were conferred the EW Extraordinary Achievement
in Education Leadership Award 2021-22 with specially
written citations.
Also on the packed agenda of the two-day event was Inauguration ceremony
felicitation of 150 low profile high-potential schools under
the EW Grand Jury Awards 2021-22. They were ranked
under 12 parameters of school excellence by a specially states across the country, the annual EducationWorld
constituted Grand Jury of eminent educationists and India Early Childhood Education Conference/EW India
conferred awards for campus architecture and design, Preschool Rankings Awards events had to be cancelled
design thinking leadership, career counseling excellence and merged with EWISRA 2021-22.
and introducing digital technologies etc. Our valued partners for the two-day event were Live
At the two-day EWISRA 2021-22, pre-primaries Life Education Pvt. Ltd, Chennai; GrayQuest
ranked in six cities — Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Education Finance Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai; Mindler
Hyderabad and Bengaluru — in the EW India Preschool Education Pvt. Ltd, Delhi; BenQ India, Guru-
Rankings 2021-22, as well as preschools ranked in the gram; Edunext Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Noida;
EW Preschool Grand Jury Rankings 2021-22 (see p.96) WordsWorth English Language System, Ahmed-
were also duly awarded. Unfortunately, because of the un- abad and Afairs Education Advisory, Kolkata. Our
warrantedly long lockdown of education institutions, pre- grateful thanks to all of them for facilitating and enabling
primaries in particular which are still shuttered in many EWISRA 2021-22.

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