Profiles:
The Core Team | The Governing Council

The Core Team

The Core Team, supported by the Unitech South City Educational Charitable Trust, will be guided and governed by the Governing Council of the school. The Core Team of Shikshantar consists of the Chairperson, Minoti Bahri, the Team Director, Sanjay Prakash, and the Education Director, Sunil Batra.

Minoti Bahri, is a teacher, counselor, hotelier and entrepreneur. She is a director on the board of Unitech and the Managing Trustee of Unitech Southcity Educational Charitable Trust. Ms. Bahri has taught for four years at Mirambika Free Progress School where her areas of work covered development of curriculum and evaluation systems, and implementation of such systems. She has also worked as a counselor at Sanjivini for equal number of years. A student of Odissi dance, Minoti has performed on stage and has held dance workshops at the Krishnamurti School in Rishikesh. She has also been a member of a dance team with Anand and Tanushree Shankar. Ms. Bahri is particularly committed to establishing an alternative yet viable paradigm in education.

Sanjay Prakash, B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is a practicing architect with a commitment to energy-conscious architecture, eco-friendly design, people’s participation in planning, music and production design. Mr. Prakash’s participative and community managed architecture work includes rural schools in Rajasthan (Lok Jumbish), Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Orissa. His architectural work in the field of education includes a research center cum school (Mirambika), an ashram hostel (Tapasya), children’s home for juvenile justice (Prayas), five engineering colleges and two higher secondary schools, a hotel management college, a ghat (Indus river), four hospitals, medical dispensaries, an integrated sports complex, factories, resorts, residences, offices, warehouses and office. Sanjay is currently also working on distance education and rural connectivity for TARAhaat.com. He is on the managing committee of Mirambika Free Progress School and on the advisory board of Deepayan Vidya Niketan.

Sunil Batra (M.Ed.), is an educational psychologist and school development consultant. He has been teaching, training and working in leadership positions in school education in India and abroad. He has worked as a teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, as Director of Christopher House in Chicago and as Principal of Ryan International School, Delhi. Mr. Batra is the founder Director of Deepayan Vidya Niketan, Education Adviser at Ahlcon International School and TARAhaat.com. His areas of work include school innovation, institutional development and management, curriculum development, teacher training and support, parent education and support, school effectiveness and educational research. Mr. Batra has been a resource person to private and government schools, NGOs and presented papers at national and international conferences. He also provides child and family counseling support for school age students.

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