India Preschool Rankings

Mumbai’s most respected preschools

With its liberal outward looking culture and capability to quickly adopt best industry and business practices, India’s commercial capital was also quick to take to professionally administered early childhood care and education

India’s commercial capital and the country’s most respected epicentre of business and finance, the western seaboard city of Mumbai, aka Bombay (pop. 18 million), […]

Noida’s best preschools 2018-19

Field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 563 well-informed parents of preschool children and 67 principals/teachers in Noida to rate and rank 22 pre-primaries in the proprietary/owned and franchised categories across ten parameters of ECCE excellence. Here are Noida’s best preschools 2018-19.

The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority aka Noida, sited in the Gautam Buddha Nagar […]

Delhi’s top-ranked preschools

With rising awareness of the vital importance of high-quality ECCE within Delhi’s expanding middle class, C fore field researchers interviewed 755 sample respondents (preschool parents, principals and teachers) to rate and rank 41 sufficiently well-known proprietary and 25 franchised preschools in the national capital

Awareness of the critical importance of professionally administered early childhood care and […]

Kolkata’s premier pre-primaries

Fortunately the ECCE sector has been spared the heavy hand of government interference which has ruined K-12 and higher education institutions of West Bengal. Therefore insulated from government regulation, preschools dispensing good, bad and indifferent ECCE are flourishing in the City of Joy

Though the number of pre-primaries (39) ranked in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata […]

Gurgaon’s most admired preschools

To meet the demand for high-quality early childhood education from Gurgaon’s growing pool of professionals employed in the manufacturing, IT/ITES among other industries, new-age pre-primaries have proliferated in this satellite city

Since 1981 when Maruti Suzuki Ltd, India’s #1 automobile company established its first manufacturing unit in Gurgaon (pop.876,900), this satellite city of Delhi — sited […]

Model top-ranked anganwadis in 3 metros

Grudging budgetary support disables India’s 1.4 million anganwadis from providing proper early childhood care and education to India’s 84 million children in the age group 0-5 years from poorest households

In 1976, former prime minister Indira Gandhi launched the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme under which anganwadis — essentially nutrition centres for lactating mothers and […]

Pune’s top-ranked preschools

With 33 percent of its residents under the age of 30, Pune is the third largest provider of hi-tech jobs after Bangalore and Delhi. Therefore it’s experiencing a high demand surge for professionally administered early childhood care and education

With India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, reaching near saturation point in terms of road infrastructure and affordable office […]

Hyderabad’s most admired preschools 2018-19

Over the past decade this de facto capital of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh has witnessed an upsurge in the promotion of internationally benchmarked pre-primaries to meet growing demand from new-age industry professionals. Here are Hyderabad’s most admired preschools 2018-19.

The administrative capital of India’s newest state of Telangana (estb.2014) and de jure […]

Chennai’s top preschools

To enable the city’s middle class parents to select the most suitable preschools for their children, C fore field personnel interviewed 622 preschool parents and 75 principals/teachers in Chennai to rate and rank 55 proprietary and franchised pre-primaries

Households in the southern city of Chennai (pop. 9.8 million) have always placed a high premium on good […]