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Pictorial Essay

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2025-26

Pradip Kumar Agarwal

Pradip K Agarwal (centre) with EW's Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen (left) & Fatima
Agarkar

commerce and business management alumnus of all instruction online while simultaneously providing
Calcutta University, Pradip Kumar Agarwal com- students comprehensive extra-curricular support. The
A plemented his university education with micro Heritage Group’s commitment extended to donating
credentials from the Harvard Kennedy School of Govern- Rs.50 lakh each to the PM Cares Fund and the West Ben-
ment, Wharton School of Business, and several programs gal Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
at India’s premier IIMs and IITs. For his across the spectrum, dedicated service to
Currently, Pradip Kumar Agarwal is Chief Executive Indian education, Agarwal has received numerous en-
Officer of the Kolkata-based Heritage Group of Institu- comiums and awards. A member of the Indian Science
tions comprising The Heritage School, Heritage Institute Congress and the Operations Research Society, Agarwal
of Technology, Heritage Business School, The Heritage provides consultancy expertise to the National Educa-
Academy, Heritage Law College, and The Heritage Col- tion Council on Higher Education of the Confederation of
lege with an aggregate enrolment of over 10,000 students Indian Industry (CII). Moreover, he is an advisor of the
mentored by 400 educators. Indian Chamber of Commerce’s core education com-
Over the past three decades, Agarwal has evolved the mittee; Vice-Chairman of Assocham’s Eastern Regional
Heritage campus in Kolkata into a pioneering multi-disci- Higher Education Council, and member of All India
plinary hub where rigorous scholarship is integrated with Management Association’s Vice Chancellors’ Council, and
values-based learning. panel member of ARISE.
“Every child is unique, deserves wholehearted support, Last year (2024), Agarwal was conferred the Vocation-
and has the potential to mature into a global leader. True al Excellence Award of Rotary International in recogni-
learning is a silent transformation. Our goal is to invest tion of his “lifetime contribution to the spread of holistic
empathy, ethics, and excellence within students so they education in India”.
succeed not by competition but by contribution,” says Likewise for his prolonged and uninterrupted service
Agarwal. to KG-Ph D education in India, the Board of Directors
This philosophy guided Heritage’s exceptional re- & Editors of EducationWorld are pleased to confer the
sponse during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21 when EW Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership
Agarwal swiftly constituted a task force to transition Award 2025-26 upon Pradip Kumar Agarwal.

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