Wg Cdr Ranjit Kumar Mandal, the founding Principal of this school, is a dynamic and scholarly education professional. He has joined this trust on 19 May 2008 to establish this school; and has been working till date without any break.
By academic qualifications, Wg Cdr Mandal is a post graduate in English and holds the degree of Master of Education. Besides, he studied Personal Management and Behavioral Science from Indian Institution of Science, Bangalore. He is also a qualified Psychologist. By his interest, he is an adventure enthusiast. He has done mountaineering, snow skiing, sailing in high seas, parasailing and river rafting etc. He did an expedition to the second highest peak of India the ‘SATOPANTH’ with the Alpine Club of Europe. He was the Deputy Expedition Leader for ‘The Brahmaputra Rafting’ in 1998 organized by Headquarters Eastern Air Command Indian Air Force, Shillong.
Wg Cdr Ranjit has started his career as a Junior College Lecturer in Assam and joined the Indian Air Force as a commissioned officer in 1980. During his Air Force career he has done a tenure in Sainik School Bhubaneswar in 1992. He worked there for three and a half years and was seen leading cadets of the school for swimming sessions in Prachi hotel of Bhubaneswar, Cycling to Paradeep, Rock climbing to Khandagiri, visit to AF Station Kalaikunda etc. He took keen interest in improvement of academics, music, hobbies club activities, NCC training of the School cadets. He conducted a number of teachers’ training programme of the schools of Eastern Zone Sainik Schools which was a rare phenomenon those days. He took a great amount of interest in improving the magazine and publication of journal of the school.
After the Sainik School tenure, he was posted to Eastern Air Command Shillong, Air HQ, New Delhi, Head Quarters Training Command, Indian Air Force Bangalore etc. During his tenure of Air Headquarters he was assigned the task of editing the prestigious Indian Air Force Journal, editing Indian Air Force Quarterly News Bulletin – the Blue Glory. Thereafter, he wrote a Coffee table book for Indian Air Force titled – Ceremonial Glimpses of the Indian Air Force. He held the appointment of Joint Director of Education in Air Headquarters and was controlling over 250 Air Force Schools spread all over India. Then he moved to Headquarters training Command, Bangalore in 2002. During his tenure in the Training Command he started a new news bulletin named ‘Training Command Times’ and revived the Hindi Journal of the Command Headquarters in 2003. Once he got into writing, he never looked back. He has by now written about 6 books. He continues to writes for the newspapers and magazines.
After 25 years of service in the Indian Air Force, Wg Cdr Ranjit Kr Mandal took a voluntary retirement from the Air Force in May 2004. He then established an international residential school in Bijapur named Sanganavasba International Residential School as its founder principal. Thereafter, he worked for another international school in Bangalore named India International School. Now he is working in – BGS World School, Chickballapur - and simultaneously holding the assignment of the Director for open a chain of ICSE Schools across the country under the name of ‘World School’ for 9 years.
He is known for his teachers’ training expertise too. He has an experience of 36 years and has been a recipient of two national awards for his contribution in the field of education
The military leader, turned school Principal, Wg Cdr Mandal believes that if principal of a school can make the staff of the school happy and professionally contented, the school achieves its best. A Principal of school needs to skillfully blend the aspects of welfare and discipline of the staff. He needs to make the people professionally competent, willing to take challenges and lead them through their work. He needs to keep some element of challenge by keeping the institutional high; and at the same time he should that the staff have the feeling of ease. The environment of the campus should be filled with challenges; but the staff should not remain tensed. A Principal needs to be professionally sound and should understand his people, prepare them to take challenges. The Principals need to and guide the staff through for their work.
The Principal of the school believes that all staff members of a school should have love for their profession and affection for their students. It is the sense of commitment of the staff which makes them do their best. In is their commitment which is the driving force and the Principal as a leader should create and sustain it in the staff.
