Mumbai: Edupreneur and founder of SAI International Group Dr Bijaya Kumar Sahoo was felicitated with the “ET Now Business Leader of the Year – Education Entrepreneur of the Year presented by Economic Times in Mumbai on Sunday.
Spiritual mentor, Gaur Gopal Das presented the award to Dr Sahoo. The award is based on his educational and entrepreneurial journey. Other awardees included BYJU’s, UNACADEMY, INFOSYS and DALMIA amongst others. A high power jury selected the most deserving Educational Entrepreneur among 2000 enterprises from across India .
“The 35 years of Dr Sahoo’s journey as an entrepreneur is surely much worthy to be recognised. His relentless and selfless service for enhancing in K12 education has paved a way and created a niche in the education scenario of eastern India. He surely is a change maker, a trendsetter and an iconic educationist to look upto for inspiration”, said Chairman of the jury, ET Now, Dr. Bhatia.
While recieving the award Dr Sahoo thanked ET Now and dedicated the award to the students and staff of SAI International Group.