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International Women’s Day: Meet Khushboo Awasthi, a key face in ‘mission’ to transform India’s 1 million govt schools

International Women’s Day: Meet Khushboo Awasthi, a key face in ‘mission’ to transform India’s 1 million govt schools

International Women’s Day: The public education system of India cannot be fixed overnight but needs small, incremental changes to achieve tangible goals, says Khushboo Awasthi, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ShikshaLokam, a non-profit working on the education leadership development mission. ShikshaLokam works with the Department of School Education in different states and Union government institutions towards designing school improvement and leadership development programmes. Khushboo is also the co-founder of Mantra4Change, a non-profit driving systemic public schools transformation in the Indian education system. She is a member of the working committee of the National Mentoring Mission constituted by the National Council for Teacher Education. Also Read | International women’s day: 4 essential steps for women to plan & allocate funds In conversation with Mint on International Women’s Day, Khusboo, with over 15+ years of experience in the education sector, Khusboo spoke about how a ‘public movement’ bringing together different stakeholders is seeking to transform India’s one million public schools. Mint caught up with Khusboo on the sidelines of InvokED 4.0, a education leadership dialogue, …

Infosys co-founder SD Shibulal: High secondary school dropout rates remains a major challenge in India

Infosys co-founder SD Shibulal: High secondary school dropout rates remains a major challenge in India

SD Shibulal, one of the seven founding members of Infosys, now leads the Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives, which has recently completed 25 years. Shibulal is also the patron of a non profit called Mantra4Change, which has recently launched Shikshagraha, a people’s movement focused on transforming government schools across India by collaborating with district leaders, women, and youth. Also Read | Infosys Share Price Today on : Infosys share are down by -0.37%, Nifty down by -0.08% Shibulal, who stepped down from the post of CEO and MD at Infosys in July 2014, spoke with Mint about his philanthropic journey. For decades, 69-year-old Shibulal has worked on various areas in education, health care, to name a few. Edited excerpt from the interview: Q- You are somebody whose name still resonates with the IT world. Do you see the world changing with this IT advancement? Technology has become a big part of our life. There is no activity in our life where technology is not involved. Whether it is healthcare, it is retail, whether it is manufacturing, …