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BOARD OF ADVISORS I n 2007, EducationWorld — India’s first news publication focused on
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla the country’s education system across the spectrum — introduced
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, targeted at educators, parents and students countrywide. The objec-
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); tive of EWISR published every year uninterruptedly since then, is to
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. identify and celebrate India’s most admired schools and their pro-
Parth Shah, Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); moters, principals and teachers who toil unsung in city suburbs and remote
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta corners of the country.
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); Unsurprisingly, response from school leaders and teachers whose lonely ef-
Shyama Thakore (London)
forts had never been acknowledged and celebrated on a national platform, was
EDITOR enthusiastic. Since then after the inaugural EWISR rated and ranked a mere
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250 schools in 15 cities across the country, the annual EWISR has improved,
MANAGING EDITOR expanded and evolved into the world’s largest and most comprehensive school
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rankings survey rating over 4,000 of the country’s most well-known primary-
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR secondaries under 14 parameters of school education excellence. It ranks
Sundar Anand schools under three main categories — day, boarding and international — and
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