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Prakash Mani Tripathi receives award from EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore and GrayQuest founder-CEO Rishab Mehta (right)

A well-known educationist, political scientist, writer and orator, Prof. Shri Prakash Mani Tripathi is a higher education veteran with over 40 years’ teaching, administrative and leadership experience. In his long and distinguished career in Indian higher education, Prof. Tripathi, an alumnus of Allahabad University, Prayagraj, has served as professor and head of the political science faculty, dean of the faculty of arts, and chief proctor of the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University (Uttar Pradesh), and has published 28 books and 76 research papers in reputed journals. In 2019, he was appointed vice chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak (IGNTU), a Central university established in 2008.

Since taking charge of IGNTU three years ago, Prof. Tripathi has successfully introduced several teaching-learning innovations, higher education management best practices and concluded multi-lateral academic and research collaborations with national and international universities to enable provision of high-quality tertiary education and research opportunities to youth from historically neglected tribal communities across the country. Sited in Amarkantak, a tribals-dominated region of Madhya Pradesh, IGNTU’s 13 faculties offer high-quality undergrad and postgraduate degree programmes to 3,912 students. In the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings 2022-23, IGNTU is ranked among India’s Top 50 public multidisciplinary universities and #1 in Madhya Pradesh (pop.73 million).

“Throughout my 40 years in higher education, my prime objective has been to ensure that students receive holistic education that prepares them not only for workplaces, but also for success in life. At IGNTU my mission is to empower students, especially tribal youth, with contemporary higher education to prepare them for employment and leadership positions in an increasingly multicultural globalising world. Simultaneously, IGNTU is also cognizant of the need to preserve and enrich the cultural heritage of India’s tribal communities,” says Tripathi.

During his career of distinguished service in India’s higher education system, Prof. Tripathi has been conferred numerous awards including the Sri Nihal Singh Yadav National Award 2014 of the Indian Political Science Association for outstanding contribution to study of ancient India politics, and the Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Award 2020 of the Uttar Pradesh government for his contribution to Hindi literature. He also serves as a member of the Hindi Advisory Committee, Department of Defence Production, Government of India.

For his sustained commitment to upgrade teachinglearning standards in the country’s public higher education institutions and determination to provide traditional knowledge as well as contemporary tertiary education and research opportunities to youth of India’s tribal communities, the Editors and Board of Directors of EducationWorld are proud to present the EW Extraordinary Education Leadership Award 2022-23 to Prof. Shri Prakash Mani Tripathi.

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