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Techno schools are providing K-10
education to 400,000 children men-
tored by 9,000 teachers.
“Sri Chaitanya Techno K-10 state
boards and K-12 CBSE affiliated
schools are the outcome of pressing
demand from the public to provide the
SCGI model of IIT foundation educa-
tion. Our schools deliver high quality
primary-secondary education mapped
with official examination boards but
supplemented by enriched mathemat-
ics and science curriculums to prepare
students from early age for entry into
IITs and premier engineering and sci-
ence colleges countrywide. However,
it’s a misconception that Sri Chaitan-
ya schools are rote learning factories
drilling, skilling and stressing children
for success in competitive exams and Seema Boppana: big jump reduction
Olympiads. In Indian K-12 education,
the gap between class X and higher the all-important portfolio of wiring ic Director/CEO Sushma Boppana’s
secondary education is very wide. In up the SCGI empire and investing it husband — Y. Sridhar is Director
Sri Chaitanya schools, our objective with sophisticated and continuously of Operations at SCGI. In this capac-
is to reduce the big jump that class evolving Internet and cloud technolo- ity, he manages three cohorts of 900
X students have to make through gies is managed by a highly-qualified highly-skilled professionals who run
our enriched curriculums dispensed inner family member. the IT, finance and infrastructure ser-
by excellent teachers from class VI A computer science alum of Wayne vices departments of SCGI.
onwards,” says Seema Boppana, a State University, USA with valuable “Until 2007 when the number of
business management and computer professional management experience Sri Chaitanya institutions had grown
sciences graduate of Oklahoma State in the US (Cavalry Portfolio Services, to 70, the administrative and accounts
University and Academic Director (K- New York, 2000-07) — and Academ- systems were managed manually. At
10) at SCGI.
A LTHOUGH IT’S fashion- Olympiads record 2020

able — especially among
left-liberals and commu-
nists — to disparage fam- State/ SCGI % of total
ily-run enterprises and proclaim the Country Students certified
virtues of professionally managed en- NTSE - Level - I Andhra 197 72
terprises, the pathetic failure of post- Karnataka 66 17
independence India’s estimated 366 Telangana 98 44 Abhinav Khanna
Central and numerous state govern- Tamil Nadu 52 12
ment public sector enterprises (PSEs) NTSE - Level - II Andhra 75
established at huge socio-economic Telangana 25 7.5
development (public education and Karnataka 38
health) opportunity cost, is a telling Tamil Nadu 17
example of premature professionali- INAO India 3 15 Arnav
sation of business and service organ- INJSO India 8 40 Panda
isations. Therefore, the SCGI pro-
moter-family has prudently resisted NB: NTSE= National Talent Search Examination (NCERT)

INAO= Indian National Astronomy Olympiad (Homi Bhabha Centre for
the temptation to divest management Science Education)
control and/or introduce the franchise INJSO= Indian National Junior Science Olympiad (Homi Bhabha Centre for
model to safeguard against brand di- Science Education)
lution. Fortunately or by design, even

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