Inspiring Indian Personalities Who Changed the Panorama of Our Education System

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Sitting on our couch and vocalizing how the world needs to be changed is not how the world will change. While we just sit and crib about how the nation needs a transformation, there are people out there doing so.

Fun fact to be stated, you do not need the power to change what you feel is wrong. All you need is a bit of courage and loads of dedication to work in a challenging situation. There is a majority of the population in our country that is deprived of basic education needs and we are supposed to do much more than just pity.

If you are there going like, “what can I do?”, well, this article is a must-read for you. We have listed some unsung heroes who didn’t just sit like us thinking “What Can I do?” Instead, they went and dared to change the world.

These amazing people have transformed the Education System in India. Their work speaks for them and they deserve to be known and saluted. Stay hooked to the article and know who dared to bring change and made education accessible for the underprivileged section of our society.

We are going to exemplify some inspirational personalities of whom we are very proud of and can learn a lot from!

1. Anand Kumar

A name echoing everywhere lately. Anand Kumar single-handedly started the ‘Super 30’ batch to coach students for IIT entrance exams in 2000. By 2018, 422 of his 480 students have already made to the IITs.

His institute has been widely recognized as the “Best Institute in the Country” by the former US President Barack Obama. He has been awarded multiple awards like “Baroda Sun Life Achievement Award” and “Ramanujan Mathematics Award”.

2. Ashish Rajpal

Ashish laid the set up of “iDiscoveri” with a mission to refine the Indian education system for better. iDiscoveri Education has become one of India’s most progressive 21st century K-12 school reform and development company, covering 40,000 children and 25,000 teachers in over 850 schools.

3. Rajani Paranjpe

A lady with a vision to take India’s literacy rate to 100%, Rajani Paranjpe is going an extra mile each day to fulfil her aim through her “Door Step School”. With a profound determination, this organization has welcomed more than 750 members to date.

They help underprivileged children by teaching them some social issues and the obstacles in our country.

4. Safeena Husain

She is an exemplary education model in the rural areas of India. She started the initiative ‘Educate Girls’ in Rajasthan in 2007 and has turned many poverty-stricken girls into the most striking assets of our country by furnishing them with a decent education.

Safeena’s determination has led to the establishment of 4425 schools within just five years.

5. Achyuta Samanta

Born in grinding poverty, this man is now the founder-director of KIIT University and the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha. One of the world’s largest boarding school, his institute caters free-of-charge K-12 and collegiate education to more than 15,000 children hailing from the state’s most backward tribal population.

6. Anil Pradhan

This 22-year-old civil engineer has been named among the “Top Ten Student Innovators in India”. He created innovative schools with all the scholarship money he earned, just like the one we saw at the end of “3 Idiots”.

Avant-garde techniques like “Kabad Se Jugaad”, “Jor Ka Jhatka” and “Tod Phod” have been developed by him to ease the learning at the experimental level. Here subjects are taught through real-life models and problem-solving methods.

7. Omprakash Mishra

Omprakash Mishra has contributed immensely in the fields of science and technology and was recently praised by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. He contributed by empowering various things, ranging from education to shelters.

8. Krishan Khanna

This zestful personality has revamped the phase of vocational education in India. He started iWatch, a not-for-profit charitable trust to encourage Vocational Education for school dropouts in Delhi, Mumbai, etc.

9. Lina Ashar

After completing her education from UK and Australia, Lina came to India in 1992 to promote “Kangaroo Kids Education Pvt. Ltd.”, a schooling system in Mumbai.

Today, the KKEL is catering its services to 55 Kangaroo Kids preschools and 18 Billabong High International schools with over 65 skilled, creative and experienced educationists. These professionals fabricate, develop and implement curricula based on contemporary education research and teaching methods.

These prodigious personalities did not just give up their own career but have been burning the candles at both ends to refit our education system. Their immense contribution in extending the reach of the education system to needy ones cannot be forgotten.