Ranjit Kumar Dass


Ranjit Kumar Dass is an academician and principal of Nath Valley School, Aurangabad, who was awarded National Teachers Award in 2014.

Biography

Ranjit was born in the year 1957. He completed his schooling from La Martininere College, Lucknow in year 1973. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with Masters Degree in History in 1979. He later went to London and did Master of Science and Education Management from University of Oxford in years 1988–89.
He started his career as a High School Co-coordinator at Woodstock School, Mussorie and was later Dean of the Woodstock School. He was with Wood Stock School from years 1980–1992.
In year 1992 he joined Nath Valley School, as Principal since its inception. He built the school from scratch and is one of the top 50 schools of Maharashtra.

Recognition

In recognition of his services in education field, Ranjit Dass was awarded National Teacher's Award in 2013. The medal was given to him and other teacher's at a function held on Teacher's Day function held on 5 September 2014 at New Delhi by the President of India. The erstwhile President, Hon. Pranab Mukherjee awarded the medals to all the pan-India teachers selected for the award for year 2013. Also present at the function to felicitate the teacher's were the Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modi and the Smriti Irani, HRD Minister and other dignitaries.

Present status

He is presently the Principal of the Nath Valley School, Aurangabad, a post he has held since 1992 when school was founded.