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Cover Story

Sri Chaitanya Group’s
J & K
2 evolving footprint
Himachal
Pradesh
Punjab 1
19 Uttarakhand
Haryana 5
34 Delhi
Jaipur 3
1
Uttar Pradesh Assam
Rajasthan 48 Bihar 3
16 9
Jharkhand West
Gujarat 12 Bengal
21 Madhya Pradesh 4
16
Chhattisgarh 18
6
Odisha
Maharashtra 13
2
40 Telangana
9
Sushma Boppana: joyful experience 66
112
Goa
language television news channel. 2 Andra Pradesh
16
The objective of SCORE, endorsed Karnataka 264
40
by Rohit Sharma, India’s white ball 184
(limited overs) test cricket captain, is CBSE (K-12)
to invite meritorious, high-potential Tamil Nadu State - Techno (K-10)
Junior College (11-12)
classes III-XII students from socio-ec- Kerala 31 CBSE (2023-24)
onomically disadvantaged households 8
whose education has been disrupted
by the schools lockdown to write In-
finity Learn’s talent hunt exams (on-
line or in SCGI schools). The exams,
held in late December and early Janu- rankings) BITS-Pilani and Oklahoma veys indicate high level of parents and
ary, evoked enthusiastic response as State University (USA) with several student satisfaction in Andhra, Telan-
top rankers in SCORE “will receive years’ experience in America’s health gana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and
global standard mentorship from insurance industry and currently Aca- Karnataka with our unique K-12 edu-
highly qualified faculty and the finest demic Director and de facto CEO of cation model. Now we are set to make
coaching for IIT/NEET/AIIMS and SCGI, confirms that promotion of In- the SCGI model available to parents
other competitive entrance exams,” finity Learn and the SCORE national and students countrywide. We believe
says an SCGI spokesperson. young talent hunt signals the group’s that our online school Infinity Learn
S UDDENLY AFTER THREE the first Sri Chaitanya School was national rollout,” says Boppana.

is the perfect platform to lead SCGI’s
intent to expand its national footprint.
“During the past 35 years after
Boppana is unfazed by “ill-informed
decades of under-the-radar
growth in Andhra Pradesh
and junior colleges are old-fashioned
and peninsular India, dur- established in Vijayawada, we have criticism” that SCGI’s 750 schools
continuously evolved and fine-tuned
ing which it has imperceptibly evolved our model of state and CBSE examina- cram/factory schools drilling and
into the largest chain of proprietorial tion board mapped curriculums with skilling children through rote learning
K-12 private schools in India, and highly enriched and value-added SCGI to excel in competitive entrance exams
perhaps Asia, SCGI’s second genera- content which prepares students to of top-ranked undergraduate colleges
tion management has ventured forth excel in national entrance examina- and universities. “In SCGI schools, we
to establish it as a national brand in tions such as IIT-JEE, NEET, JIPMER hire the country’s best teachers who
English-medium K-12 education. and UPSC. Over the next three years, take pains to ensure that our students
Sushma Boppana, a computer we intend to promote 200 CBSE-af- thoroughly grasp theoretical concepts
alumna of the top-ranked (except in filiated Sri Chaitanya K-12 schools in and develop creativity and analytical
the Union education ministry’s NIRF several states across India. Our sur- skills. When students comprehend

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