In Conversation Quick Chat
Q& “My Dream is to Make A
Good Education Available in Every Part of India�
Jayant Hari Har Lal, Executive Director, Shri Ram New Horizon shares his vision of education system in India and talks about his mid career shift from the corporate world to academics. In conversation with Pragya Gupta Excerpts:
Please share your journey from the Doon School to the Shri Ram Group. After my schooling at the Doon School and graduation from IIT Kanpur, I was selected at IIM Kolkatta; a University in
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the US and was offered employment in the private sector. Family issues compelled me to take up employment in India where I worked with various companies over the years. My entrepreneurial instincts got the better of me and cou-
pled with family concerns I moved to my home town in Dehradun, where I set up a manufacturing plant making precision components for photocopiers and other electronic machinery. A chance offer to teach Math and Physics at my alma