EducationWorld June 2020

50 Leaders who can revive Indian education – Reekrit Serai

Reekrit Serai
Managing director, Satluj Group of Schools, Punjab, Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir

An alum of University College London, Reekrit Serai is the Chandigarh-based managing director of Satluj Group of Schools comprising 13 institutions with 30,000 students and 1,000 teachers in north India. Serai is also co-founder and director of Rumour Books India, a […]

50 Leaders who can revive Indian Education – Nikhil Wagh

Nikhil Wagh
Founder-chairman, Educon International School, Pune

A science and engineering alumnus of Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth, Pune, Nikhil Wagh is founder-chairman of the new-age Educon International School, Pune (EIS, estb.2015) and managing director of Educon Consultancy that provides school management, teacher training and student assessment among other services. A highly respected educationist, Dr. Wagh served as […]

Still time to boost aggregate demand: 20 lakh crore package

In a dramatic broadcast on national television and radio on May 12, prime minister Narendra Modi announced a Rs 20 lakh crore (equivalent to 10 percent of GDP projected for 2020-21) stimulus package to get the wheels of industry and business moving. Three days after the final instalment of the economy stimulus package was presented […]

Letter from the Editor

The prolonged closure of all education institutions following outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 which has infected over 7.6 million people and precipitated 428,000 fatalities worldwide, and 332,000 and 9,520 in India, has caused unprecedented disruption of Indian education across the spectrum from preprimaries, all the way up to universities. School leaving and college […]