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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.1

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla W
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan hen after several years of invitation, the top manage-
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, ment of the low-profile Hyderabad/Vijayawada-based Sri
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Chaitanya Group of Institutions (SCGI) agreed to tell its
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon story, there was considerable excitement in the offices of
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio EducationWorld. Because over the past 36 years since
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); foreign-returned medical practitioners Dr. B.S. Rao and Dr. Lakshmibai
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta Jhansi Boppana established a higher secondary school in Vijayawada to
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
prepare Andhra Pradesh’s under-served youth — especially girl children —
EDITOR for entry into the country’s top-ranked engineering and medical undergrad
Dilip Thakore colleges, the Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions (SCGI) has evolved into the
MANAGING EDITOR country’s largest K-12 private schools chain.
Summiya Yasmeen Although liberal academics and purists tend to disparage academics-
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR focused K-12 education as stressful, drill-and-and-skill rote-learning, SCGI’s
Sundar Anand extraordinary record in preparing students to top stiff public entrance ex-
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi ams such as IIT-JEE, NEET and AIIMS, has made the Sri Chaitanya Group a
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) household name in Andhra, Telangana and several neighbouring states of the
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) Deccan plateau. But now the next generation led by two highly-qualified and
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 competent Boppana sisters has signalled a clear intent to rollout the tried,
CHIEF EXECUTIVE tested and successful SCGI English-medium K-12 education model across
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 the country. They contend that far from dispensing stressful memory-based
MARKETING primary-secondary education, by ensuring that children grasp fundamental
West: Tejas Pattni (General Manager) 9022487997 theory, concepts and application skills, SCGI teachers make learning a joyful
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in and stimulating experience for children.
South India: Poonam Shah 9731966373
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 Over the past 35 years driven by public demand, the number of SCGI
schools and junior colleges have multiplied to 750 with an aggregate enrol-
GRAPHICS
Suresh K. ment of 650,000 students mentored by 29,360 well-trained and well-remu-
SUBSCRIPTIONS nerated teachers. Having attained economies of scale, SCGI tuition fees are
modest ranging between Rs.13,000-80,000 per year (and less than Rs.2 lakh
Kiran Kumar: 9108225694/
080 43711141 in boarding schools) varying across geographies. They have empowered tens
sub@educationworld.in of thousands of children from aspirational middle class homes to enter the
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School Rankings because our sample respondents are drawn from high-in-
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