Jagdish Gandhi (born Jagdish on 10 November) is an Indian educator, noteworthy as the founding chairman of City Montessori School.[1] The school has 20 branches in Lucknow with over 37,000 enrolled students, which has earned it a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Peace and other initiatives of Jagdish Gandhi are indeed praiseworthy. His annual conference of Chief Justices of the World at Lucknow is a unique attempt to create a common enforcable international law for the global village.
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The prestigious institution has received the following awards - Certificate of Guinness Records, The Derozio Award, Friend of Young Physicists Award, Quality Pioneer Award, Key to the City of Georgetown, UNESCO Prize for Peace 2002, UP Ratan, Excellence Awards 2003, Rights of the Child Award, Nuclear Free Future Award, Life-Link Campaign, Bhartiya Awam Society UP, Progressive Cultural Society, Ashoka Changemakers award. He is one of the most famous personalities from Lucknow.
Gandhi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Education at a ceremony on the occasion of World Teacher’s Day by Ufa-based Bashkir State Pedagogical University (BSPU).
“The board members of BSPU have unanimously decided to honour you with the Honorary Doctorate Degree considering the fact that you have devoted 50 long years to the service of society and humanity at large in the field of education and building a world fit for children and generations yet-to-be-born,” the citation read.
BSPU is the largest Pedagogical State University of Russian republic of Bashkortostan in the Urals and its rector Prof. RM Asadullin presented the degree to Mr. Gandhi in the presence of 600 professors of the university.
In 1959, Mr. Gandhi started his school with just five children. Today City Montessori School is the world’s largest school with over 37,000 pupils and is also the first and only school to receive the coveted UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.