1.

Tell us about your experience in the education industry and what makes it the best industry to
work in?

Started with a handful number of forty students, the Mansarovar Public School today enjoys trust of
200 teachers and around 1500 students. The Group has witnessed gigantic expansion by
introduction of Mansarovar Dental College offering 250 dental chairs and MDS in Prosthodontics and
Endodontics. Mansarovar Ayurvedic College is yet another feather in the cap of the Group approved
by central council of Indian Medicine, New Delhi and Govt. of India (AYUSH) and affiliated to the
Madhya Pradesh Medical Health Science University, Jabalpur (M.P.). The association with various
external organizations has opened unprecedented opportunities for both teachers and students.
Looking into the deep opportunities and the growing need of education, the Mansarovar Group
established Mansarovar Global University in 2018 near Sehore in a 51 acres campus where it offers
courses in plethora of fields including Agriculture, Legal studies, Hotel Management, Mass media,
Journalism, Science and Technology, Engineering, Pharmacy, Management, Nursing, Paramedical,
Fashion and more.

Established in the year 2018 by shri Sai Gramothan Samiti, the Mansarovar Global University has
bloomed under the nurturing leadership of Mr. K.K. Tiwari who is the founder chairman of
Mansarovar Group of Institution and Chancellor of Mansarovar Global University. Sri Sai Gramothan
Samiti has established other remarkable institutions as well under the flagship of Mansarovar Group
since the year 1999. The Mansarovar Group excels in variety of courses including primary and high
schooling, bachelor’s degree, master’s and doctorate. It is one of the few universities that are based
on an entrepreneurship model which is a synergy of education, social welfare and combined growth.

2. Being chairman of Mansarovar Group of Institutions what is your philosophy of leadership?

How would you describe your leadership style?

According to me leadership is continuous hustle which has to be fueled by innovative ideas and
well-timed planned strategies. The journey from 1999 to 2019 has taught Mr. Tiwari that no matter
how befitting your ideas might be, you should always be ready to grind your way through unknown
challenges that wait.

Mansarovar Group seeks to inculcate the idea of leadership in faculty and students alike in
furtherance of which Mansarovar has planned to organize events such as SIARAM Cup (Interschool
Football Tournament), CDE and CME programmes, Mansarovar Dental college Fest (JALSA),
Mansarovar Ayurvedic Medical College Fest (Atharva), Vh1 Supersonic, Shri Guruve Namah
(Felicitation ceremony) for teachers and Academicians).

3. Any of the significant challenges you faced as the Chairman of Mansarovar Group of
Institutions?

The story of Mansarovar Group is not oblivious to difficulties but rather involves overcoming
obstinate challenges while scouting into unknown territory. I proposed the idea of establishing the
first school at Gram panchayat which was predominantly, rudimentary and underdeveloped. Such
unorthodox idea coupled with the need to arrange qualified faculty for the students in such a locality
seemed refractory and against all intellectual reflex and traditional entrepreneurship advises which
was nevertheless overridden by another idea of establishing Mansarovar College in the year 2003
thereby offering a wide range of courses including D.Ed, B.Ed, GNM , ANM, B.Sc(nursing) and M.Sc.
The scarcity of trained and qualified faculty was saturated by the reflux which was result of
establishing Mansarovar College. As an accountable institution Mansarovar Group’s prime endeavor
is focused on the fact that no fantasy should be beyond reach for any student who has an eagerness
to learn and grow. As our equivocal effort Mansarovar Group dedicates substantial part of its
earning towards education related prospects.

I believe that lack quality education depletes more talent than any other factor in rural areas. The
inability of rural people to commute long distances and afford education has been a major challenge
among others. Unlike plant seeds, buried talent doesn’t grow unless a proper environment is
nurtured around it. Since majority of them cannot come to us, we decided to greet them in their
own locality. The response in terms of enrollment of students saw exponential growth over the
years.

4. How does the Curriculum of Mansarovar Group of Institutions ensure best practice of industry?

In today’s educational system, the participation of industries in curriculum design and delivery at
institutions and universities is very much essential to prepare the students for employment.

Curriculum of Mansarovar that is well articulated between the elementary grades and between
high school and college and makes recognized connections with other disciplines. It can be
adapted to meet the diverse needs of students and situations. Standards-driven changes in
courses, leading to advanced high school and introductory college courses through modification
of content and pedagogy at the advanced course and college levels toward developing deeper
understanding. Instruction should focus students on the central concepts and fundamental
principles of the discipline. It also should assist them in constructing a framework for
organizing new information as they explore concepts in depth and in a variety of contexts and
develop problem-solving strategies common to the discipline.
To nurture the capacity of students to generalize and transfer their learning to new problems,
teachers must help students explore old understandings in new ways. To this end, teachers
must draw out misconceptions in order to challenge and displace them

5 What are the various changes you noticed in the Education industry over the past few years and
what are the skills set required by a corporate in a student?

Education needs to equip today’s young people with the skills to thrive in tomorrow’s world.

See, the education industry has changed drastically from being a temple of learning to become a
service provider. Thankfully, the respect teachers had from the students is still there, notwithstanding
aberrations we notice day in and day out. We did go through a proliferation of colleges affiliating to
large universities, which have catered to large number of youths over years. This model is perhaps not
the best model for excellence as these institutions suffer from lack of autonomy. I belong to the group
who feel academic autonomy is “essential to excellence” and if we did not create excellence, then the
regulators need to own up their share of the blame. We are now in a phase of autonomous institutions
in the form of unitary universities which need to gear up to face challenges in the future.
There would be a few years of churning with regulators which once settles down then we should have
a period conducive to growth and excellence. I am sure even now our students have the skill set we
are talking about, otherwise, how is industry recruiting. What we need to understand are two things,
number one is are our millennials going to do the jobs we did? Second is what did we do wrong in
scaleup? I am sure we will find our answers there. The IT boom, followed by slump killed the training
system. We need our graduates to be willing to dirty their hands, teamwork as opposed to
individualism, attitude for learning from others and from the situation, become enterprising (some
may even become entrepreneurs) are a few simple skills one needs to ensure. Other skills are time
variant and a person with good analytical and communication skills can and will continue to adapt.
This pressure on skills is partially coming because of industry not wanting to spend the time and effort
to train and retrain their employees.

6. What would be your ideal school environment and how would you encourage that kind of
culture?

An ideal school environment embraces the idea that all students can learn and it works up to build
safe learning spaces for students. We hire teachers who are knowledgeable, care about student
learning, and adapt our instruction to meet the needs of these young learners. We also try to be
nimble and adjust as per the needs of Parents. We work really hard to make the curriculum relevant
to the lives of these Children and focus on what they learn as they grow up to step out in the world,
a student success is a complex idea and measuring it must be accomplished with many tools. We try
our best to provide them with all that we can to ensure the development of kids not only in the
educational aspect but in another extra curriculum also.

Basically, a school culture consists of the underlying influences and attitudes within the school —
based on the norms, traditions and beliefs of the staff and students.

Every classroom environment contributes to your school culture. Sometimes, for real change to
occur with students, it’s the adults who have to change first. Together as a staff, you need to create
a shared vision of your school. That means developing consistent school rules and ways of defining
and meeting student behaviour. When students believe that the rules are fair and consistently
enforced, it goes a long way toward building trust. Inappropriate behaviour shouldn’t be laughed off
in one classroom and punished in another.

7. What goals do you have in your mind for Mansarovar Group of Institutions for the next few
years?

I believe that entrepreneurship in education sector should not be solely profit oriented. It is a sector
where ethos, pathos and logos are indebted to moral and ethical culpability the roots of which can
be found in ancient India where the educators of masses were considered supreme and held an
unimpeachable place in society. As successor of such great culture Mansarovar Group shall continue
to cherish the idea of growth and social welfare in its institutional management.

The Mansarovar Group of Institutions is creating new milestone always with the vision of unending
journey in pursuit of excellence-culmination of a long-standing dream to establish a seat of global
learning that reflects the best practices of the leading institutions of the world.
8. Any suggestions you would like to give to the current youth and the aspiring
students?
Our young generation of today has both good qualities and some deficiencies in them. This
generation has a series of understandings and emotions that the previous generations did not
possess and therefore, we must always give them the benefit of the doubt.
At the same time, they also have some corrupt thoughts and negative ethical traits which must be
removed from their character. It is not possible to remove these traits from them without keeping
in mind and respecting the good qualities that the youth possess – meaning their understandings,
emotions and their other noble traits and qualities – thus, we must show respect to them in these
regards.
For youth, I must say there are no shortcuts. Only hard work. be patient, consistent and never give
up.