Grandson of the late Padma Bhushan Mungturam Jaipuria (1904-1978), a nationalist industrialist-educationist who promoted the Seth Anandram Jaipuria College in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1945, Delhi-based Shishir Jaipuria is Chairman and Managing Director of Ginni Filaments Ltd. Simultaneously, Shishir Jaipuria is also Chairman of the Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions (SAJGEI), an umbrella organisation comprising 12 K-12 schools, five preschools and two business management institutes which have an aggregate enrolment of 20,000 students and 800 faculty on their muster rolls.
A commerce graduate of Christ Church College, Kanpur, with a law degree from the city’s DAV Law College, Shishir Jaipuria began his career as a junior executive in the family-owned Swadeshi Cotton Mills, Kanpur. During an eventful career spanning 36 years, he has held several senior positions in family companies including Managing Director of Ginni Filaments, and Director of Pioneer Ltd, which publishes The Pioneer, an English language daily in Lucknow. Among his philanthropic initiatives are a chain of public guesthouses, temples, Vedic institutions and charitable hospitals.
Since Shishir Jaipuria took over as Chairman of SAJGEI, the group has expanded rapidly, particularly in the Hindi heartland states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. SAJGEI’s flagship Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Kanpur (estb.1974) is ranked #1 in Kanpur and #2 in Uttar Pradesh among co-ed day schools in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2022-23.
“In SAJGEI, we are committed to providing high-quality education to enable future generations to make meaningful contribution to nation building. Over the past 75 years, we have achieved continuous growth and successfully adopted contemporary digital technologies to develop the country’s abundant human resource,” says Jaipuria.
A highly respected leader of industry and business, Shishir Jaipuria has held several high-profile positions in industry. Among them: Chairman of the Textiles Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI); board member of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC); and chairman, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). Currently, he is Chairman of FICCI Arise, (Alliance for Re-imagining School Education) and committee member of Punjab, Haryana & Delhi Chamber of Commerce. In 2018 he was conferred a Social and Business Enterprise Responsibility Award for his CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiatives.
With SAJGEI having drawn up a detailed plan to establish K-12 schools in tier II and III cities of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Shishir Jaipuria expects the number of SAJGEI institutions to increase to 50 countrywide by 2025.
For his extraordinary and sustained commitment to promoting and establishing high quality K-12 schools, undergrad colleges and business management institutes, the Editors and Board of Directors of EducationWorld are proud to present Shishir Jaipuria, the EW Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23 and induct him into the EW Hall of Fame of Indian education.
