Dr. Dilip Modi (right) & Mrs. Modi receives award from Prof. John Varghese (centre right) & Rajiv Desai (centre)

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Dr. Dilip Modi is promoter-chairman of the Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan)-based JIVEM Education Pvt. Ltd, a K-12 schools management and consultancy company. During the past 39 years since Dr. Modi, a commerce postgraduate of Mumbai University, began his career by promoting a test prep centre under the name and style of GyanKutir in 1983, he has undertaken several path-breaking initiatives which have transformed the backward district of Jhunjhunu (pop. 21 million) into an education hub of Rajasthan.

A decade after the GyanKutir Institute had established a statewide reputation for preparing students for examinations of the state board, in 1993 Dr. Modi promoted Jhunjhunu Academy, the first K-10 English-medium day boarding school in the district. In 1999, one of the academy’s students was ranked among the Top 10 in the Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan exam — a first for any school in the district and placed the Jhunjhunu Academy on the education map of the state. Following pressing demand from citizens, in the millennium year 2000, the K-10 Jhunjhunu Academy was upgraded into a fully-fledged K-12 senior secondary school offering Arts, Science and Commerce streams to higher secondary students. Currently, the state board-affiliated Jhunjhunu Academy has 4,000 students mentored by 300 teachers on its muster rolls.

In 2006 with the objective of providing the children of Jhunjhunu the benefit of a national curriculum education, Dr. Modi promoted a second K-12 Jhunjhunu Academy affiliated with the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the first private day-cum-residential CBSE school of the district. Currently, this school has 2,500 students and 105 teachers on its muster rolls.

In 2010, all the education institutions promoted by Dr. Modi were grouped under the umbrella of Jivem Education. Since then, Jivem Education has transformed into the region’s premier education management and consultancy company with a client list of 27 schools which have been transformed into nationally benchmarked pre-primary and secondary schools. In the same year, Jivem Education began to prepare school-leaving students for the IIT-JEE and NEET national entrance exams. In 2011, he was awarded a Ph.D. by Singhania University, Rajasthan.

Dr. Modi’s latest initiative is the establishment of a Multi Sports Complex equipped with state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor infrastructure and synthetic courts and grounds. Spread over a 35-acre campus in the CBSE-affiliated Jhunjhunu Academy, the complex will provide high-quality coaching in cricket, lawn tennis, badminton, gymnastics, archery, pistol shooting, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, roller-skating, karate, wrestling, kabaddi, boxing and track and field events. For this initiative, Jhunjhunu Academy has been officially declared a Fit India School by the Union government. “India has the world’s largest and most high-potential population of children and youth. Providing them high-quality academic, co-curricular and fitness-cum-sports education is the prerequisite of national development. In Jivem Education, we are determined to do our best to develop the country’s human capital,” says Dr. Modi.

For his sustained commitment to provide high-quality nationally benchmarked K-12 academic and holistic 360 degree education to the children of Jhunjhunu district and Rajasthan, the Editors and Board of Directors of EducationWorld are proud to present the EW Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22 to Dr. Dilip Modi.

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