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GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SPECIAL NEEDS
DAY BOARDING
1 Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, 1 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, 1 The Aditya Birla Integrated School,
Thiruvananthapuram Chennithala, Alappuzha (Kerala) Mumbai
2 Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Sector 2 Motilal Nehru School of Sports, 2 Tamana Autism Centre — School of Hope,
10, Dwarka, New Delhi Rai, Sonipat Delhi
3 GVHSS for Girls, Nadakkavu, Kozhikode 3 JNV, Bagalur, Bengaluru Urban 3 Academy for Severe Handicaps and
3 Kendriya Vidyalaya — IIT Madras, Chennai 4 Oak Grove School, Dehradun Autism, Bengaluru
4 Worli Seaface Mumbai Public English 5 Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, Patharchepa, 4 SPJ Sadhana School, Mumbai
School Balangir dist. 5 Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan (MBCN),
4 Kendriya Vidyalaya — IIT Bombay, Powai 5 Simultala Awasiya Vidyalaya, Jamui, Bihar Noida
5 Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, 6 JNV, Gachibowli (Telangana) 6 Sweekaar Academy of Rehabilitation
Hatiota Village, Ganjam Dist 7 JNV, Chendayad, Kannur (Kerala) Sciences (SARS), Secunderabad
5 Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, 7 Asha Kiran Special Needs School,
Sector 11 Rohini, Delhi 8 JNV, Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) Bengaluru
6 Kendriya Vidyalaya No 2, Naval Base, 9 JNV, Neriamangalam, Ernakulam, 8 Sanchetna, Noida

(Kerala)
Cochin 9 Aatman Academy, Thane
6 Government Model Senior Secondary 10 JNV, Samastipur (Bihar)
School, Manimajra,Chandigarh 10 Shristi Child Development & Learning
Institute, Delhi

7 Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, 10 Sunderji Institute of Special School, Pune
Sector 5, Dwarka, Delhi
8 Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya,
Yamuna Vihar, Delhi
8 Govt Model Sr Sec School, Sector Disruption of the academic calendar by the global
16, Chandigarh
9 Kendriya Vidyalaya, NAL Campus, Covid-19 pandemic necessitated deferment of the
Bengaluru much-awaited EducationWorld India School Rankings
10 Jadavpur Vidyapith, Kolkata 2020-21 to November. Nevertheless this year’s

EWISR — for which 11,368 sample respondents
were interviewed in 28 cities — is as robust and
uncompromising as previous C fore-EW surveys

Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
T HE MALIGNANT WIND OF THE Coro- ing Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, UAE and Nepal. Therefore for

the past two years, we have been publishing expert jury
navirus global pandemic which has
rankings of Top 10 schools in neighbouring countries. This
infected 50 million people and killed
year too, the most respected schools in these countries are
1.26 million people around the world
including 8.5 million and 127,000 in
ranked by specially constituted juries of education experts
India (Nov.9) has blown a modicum
of good. It has forced postponement
The silver lining of the pandemic crisis is that disrup-
tion of our EWISR calendar has pushed publication of the
of our anxiously awaited annual Edu- with deep knowledge of their K-12 education systems.
cationWorld India School Rankings rankings to November when EducationWorld attains the
(EWISR) league tables, published in September for the full maturity age of 21. On November 1, 1999 the very first
past 13 years, to November/December. With the number issue of EW featuring a cover story on IIM-Calcutta hit the
of schools sufficiently well-known to be included rising to newsstands. Since then, this publication launched with the
almost 2,500, this year EWISR 2020-21 will be spread over mission statement to “build the pressure of public opinion
our November and December issues. to make education the #1 item on the national agenda,”
Please note that for the past decade, EWISR has estab- has been the reform torch-bearer of Indian education with
lished an unchallenged reputation as the world’s largest a record of uninterrupted publication of 252 issues over
and most detailed primary-secondary schools annual rank- 21 years.
ings project. To the extent, that demand for inclusion has Unfortunately our best and sustained effort of 21 years,
also emanated from self-respecting schools in neighbour- has failed to attain our mission. Nevertheless, it’s some con-

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