A veteran from the Army Educational Corps with an uninterrupted record of producing top level outcomes. During army service, he rose to serve at the Army Headquarters level, where he handled manpower planning, training and educational administration for the AEC. In addition to this, he was also tasked to prepare change-management plans, HR strategies and training policies for his corps.
As Headmaster of Sainik School Ghorakhal, he led the school to become the country’s best feeder to NDA, Khadakvasla and produced the best academic results among all Sainik Schools of the country. SSGK also attained enviable results in Co-Scholastics and Sports at the regional and national level. Under his mentorship, a teacher from this school was awarded the National Teachers Award in 2009.
Thereafter, he was deep-selected to set up a Sainik School at Rewari. Over there, he built up the institutional framework from a scratch, including design inputs for the campus; obtaining land and statutory clearances etc. for the smooth functioning of the school right from the start.
After taking pre-mature retirement, he led The Sagar School, a co-educational, fully residential international school with students from many Indian states and several countries. His assignment was to reform and expand academic, sports, and co-scholastics; strengthen multicultural learning and increase global linkages with active programmes through the British Council, IAYP, and student exchanges with partner schools overseas. Under his leadership, the school earned recognition as one of the top schools of Rajasthan and India.
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He has also served as Director and Joint Secretary in the DPS Ghaziabad Society, where he consolidated internal functioning of the schools with the help of advanced digital systems. Besides, strengthening staffing and in-service training, he also contributed towards the expansion of the DPSG Society’s community outreach programmes.
As Principal of St Kabir Public School, Chandigarh, he led it to become a top level CBSE affiliated school and during the Covid lockdown, enabled it to become a forerunner in the development of a full-fledged system of online education. For the myriad and broad based activities under his helmsmanship, the school was recognized by Forbes India as a “School with a Legacy”. Later on during his tenure, St Kabir was also placed in the “Future Ready” category as an outcome of an audit by Price Waterhouse Cooper in collaboration with Fortune India.
His services have been regularly engaged for consultation on K-12 matters.
