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Sri Chaitanya Group: stellar admissions record

IITs NITs Medical Colleges
(Andhra+Telangana)
SCGI
SCGI
SCGI
YEAR Available admissions % of total Available admissions % of total Available admissions % of total
seats
intake
seats
intake
seats
intake
2016 10,572 2,016 19.07 17,920 5,156 28.77 6,900 3,852 55.83
2017 10,988 2,726 24.81 18,690 4,405 23.57 7,300 4,132 56.60
2018 11,279 1,630 14.45 19,624 4,421 22.53 8,400 4,643 55.27
2019 13,674 2,729 19.96 20,605 5,104 24.77 9,100 5,332 58.59
2020 16,053 2,992 19.64 24,422 6,168 25.26 9,600 5,747 59.86
All India Institute of Top 50 AP/Telangana
Medical Sciences, Delhi engineering colleges
SCGI
SCGI
YEAR Available admissions % of total Available admissions % of total
intake
seats
seats
intake
2016 72 14 19.44 25,000 16,358 65.43
2017 100 21 21.00 25,000 14,649 58.60
2018 107 26 24.30 25,000 13,530 54.12
2019 105 29 27.62 25,000 12,559 50.24
2020 112 32 28.57 25,000 13,875 55.50
Source: SCGI / JOSAA (IIT/NIT’s) 2020
“Chaitanya schools and junior colleges have developed a unique K-12
education model for preparing students for competitive entrance exams
of the country’s top-ranked medical and engineering undergrad colleges.”
— T. Nagendra, Director, Marketing, SCGI

that time, we realised that multipli- fied, tried and tested ICT and educa-
cation of SCGI junior colleges and tion professional with international
schools to meet public demand would experience, into its top management.
be impossible without induction of A physics alumnus of Patna Uni-
new digital technologies. Since then, versity and the top-ranked IIM-Ban-
we have designed and evolved a com- galore, with extensive professional
prehensive Student Management Sys- work experience in several blue-chip
tem (SMS) that continuously maps all corporations including TCS, NIIT,
SCGI students’ academic progress, Hughes Communications, the pioneer
fees payment record and transpor- iDiscoveri and Pearson India, Singh
tation logistics. Our SMS enables was hitherto the London-based global
us to monitor the SWOT (strengths, K-12 and English Language training
weakness, opportunities and threats) director of the education multina-
of every student and intervene with tional Pearson Plc (annual revenue:
remedial education when necessary. $4 billion or Rs.30,00 crore). There-
Moreover, the customised MIS (man- fore, his induction as CEO of SCGI’s
agement information system) that we Sridhar: evolving new technologies new Hyderabad-based edtech venture
have designed and evolved over the Infinity Learn (Rankguru Technology
past 14 years for financial and infra- tinuously improved its unique school Solutions Pvt. Ltd) is a recruitment
structure management has proved vi- examination boards-mapped enriched coup that’s almost a sure-fire guaran-
tally important to the expansion and curriculums and pedagogies for com- tee of success.
scaling of SCGI,” says Sridhar. petitive exams, the family has recog- In quick time, Singh has launched
Nevertheless it speaks well of the nised the limits of proprietorial capa- Infinity Learn, the group’s first se-
judgement of Dr. Rao and the pro- bilities. Therefore, to aid and enable nior (classes IX-XII) online school
moter family that 35 years after they the group’s national rollout, it has in- designed to gradually transform into
conceptualised, developed and con- ducted Ujjwal Singh, a highly quali- a fully online K-12 institution. Infin-

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