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Gyanshree Leader

Rita Kapur, Director, Education

ounder-director of the Haldiram Educational Society and director of the Gyanshree Awards
F School Noida, Rita Kapur is the driving force behind the accelerated development of
GSN into one of the national capital region’s most respected co-ed day schools. An En-
glish and education alumna of Punjab and Lucknow universities, Kapur has over three Over the course of a three-decades distinguished career in education, Kapur has been
decades of valuable experience in teaching, school administration and management conferred several awards for her contribution to raising teaching-learning standards in
in the country’s top-ranked K-12 institutions. She began her career in the early 1980s Indian K-12 education. Among them:
in the CBSE-affiliated Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (H.A.L) School, HAL campus, Luc-
know before signing up with DPS Ghaziabad (DPSG) in 1987, of which she was appoint-
ed headmistress in 1995, principal in 1998 and executive director of the DPSG Society in CBSE National Award for Teachers 2002
2013. During her tenure at DPSG — consistently ranked #1 in Ghaziabad in the annual of the Union HRD ministry.
EW India School Rankings — she also masterminded the establishment of the DPSG —
Disha School, a free-of-charge school for underprivileged children in 2008. President’s Award for Teachers 2004 conferred by
President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
In 2013 she was hand-picked by M.L. Agarwal to roll out his dream project — the Gyan-
shree School, Noida. With her vast and valuable experience in shaping and developing
some of India’s top-ranked schools, Kapur has quickly developed GSN into a 21st centu- Elected joint secretary, All India National
ry institution infused with Indian traditions and culture. Progressive Schools Conference (2005-07).

A champion of teacher empowerment, Kapur has facilitated several professional de-
velopment programmes for CBSE and NCERT while serving on several committees of
teacher education and school reforms constituted by the Union HRD ministry.

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