“Deeply regret the passing of Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, founder-chairman of the Lucknow-based City Montessori School, acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest single city multi campus school with over 57,000 students. Dr Gandhi was among the first to encourage the novel EducationWorld venture and a committed supporter throughout his life. From modest beginnings he built CMS into a powerhouse school repeatedly ranked Uttar Pradesh’s No.1 coed day school in the EW India School Rankings. All of us in EducationWorld deeply mourn the passing of this great educator who overcame overwhelming odds to build a great education institution.”
Dilip Thakore, Editor, EducationWorld in a tribute to CMS founder Dr. Jagdish Gandhi (January 22)
“Our ability to remain relevant as an institution requires us to recognise challenges and begin difficult conversations.”
DY Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, flagging some of the challenges faced by the judiciary including adjournment culture and long vacations (ndtv.com, January 28)
“We have also seen that those parents who have not been very successful in their lives have nothing to say or want to tell the world about their successes and achievements, make the report card of their children their visiting card. Whenever they meet someone, they will tell them the story of their children. This is not good.”
Prime minister Narendra Modi interacting with students, parents and teachers during his annual Pariksha Pe Charcha programme (January 29)
“The Skill India Mission has trained 1.4 crore youth, upskilled and reskilled 54 lakh youth, and established 3000 new ITIs. A large number of new institutions of higher learning, namely 7 IITs, 16 IIITs, 7 IIMs, 15 AIIMS and 390 universities have been set up.”
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, in her Interim Union Budget 2024-25 speech (February 1)
