Pratham received the Chaudhary Charan Singh Seva Ratna Puraskar 2025 by the Kisan Trust. The award was presented to Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham Education Foundation, at a ceremony in New Delhi, in the presence of Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister of State for Education and Skill Development…
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Pratham was felicitated at the Education, Skilling & Employability Conference (ESEC’25), organised by The CSR Universe in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. This samman, conferred by the Global Alliance for FLN, recognises Pratham’s longstanding contribution to strengthening Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) in India. Aligned with the theme ‘Beyond NIPUN Goals: Fast-tracking the FLN Mission for Viksit…
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Pratham’s Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach has been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2026 and named the Academy Choice, earning top scores for impact and scalability. Chosen from 789 innovations and based on nearly 3,360 expert reviews, TaRL stood out as one of the top 100 innovations to watch out for in…
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Pratham’s Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) has been named a finalist solution in the prestigious 100&Change global competition. Launched by the MacArthur Foundation…
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Pratham has been selected as a Laureate of the Yashraj Bharati Samman 2025 in the category of Transforming People’s Lives. Instituted by the Yashraj Research Foundation (YRF)…
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Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development: The International Jury of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, chaired by the former Chief Justice of India, Justice T. S. Thakur, announced the award of the Prize for 2021 to Pratham Education Foundation, as a pioneering civil society organisation dedicated to improving the quality of education for underprivileged children in India and across the world.
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Dr. Rukmini Banerji was awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Development – the world’s highest education accolade. The Yidan Prize is an inclusive education award that recognizes individuals, or up to three-member teams, who have contributed significantly to education research and development.
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Every year, Business Today recognizes the Most Powerful Women in the fields of Business and Impact. In 2018, Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham, was featured among the awardees. Business Today noted, “She has taken a host of initiatives to make elementary education realistic for school children.” See the full list of winners here: https://www.businesstoday.in/specials/most-powerful-women-2018/photo/the-most-powerful-women-in-business-2018-5722-2018-09-10/43
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“Our own values and vision of making the world a better, more positive place are very similar to that of the Prize, and this generous honor from an international award will greatly support the work of Pratham in continuing to promote quality education to the children who are most in need.” Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO…
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“Pratham started in 1995, but even in 2017 they are very relevant in the journey. They continue to excel in what they are doing, taking it beyond what they have done in the past.” — Deep Joshi, award jury member and co-founder of Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)
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