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Lucknow school is world’s ‘largest’<br />
Lucknow, Sep 23: Starting from five students and a Rs.300 loan, a<br />
Lucknow school has travelled a long way to become the school with<br />
the most number of pupils in the world, according to the Guinness<br />
Book of Records.<br />
The 57th and 2013 edition of the book says the <strong>City</strong> <strong>Montessori</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> (CMS) in Lucknow had a record enrolment of 39,437 pupils on<br />
Aug 9, 2010, for the 2010-11 academic year.<br />
<strong>School</strong> authorities told IANS that the number of pupils now stood at<br />
45,000-plus.<br />
The entry in the Guinness, which documents the world’s most unique<br />
and selective records, has enthused the students and staff.<br />
“We are very happy that not only our size but also our philosophy of<br />
world peace is being recognized at a global level,” school founder<br />
Jagdish Gandhi told IANS.<br />
Tanmay Tiwari, a Class 12 student on one of the 20 branches the<br />
school operates in the city, is equally estatic.<br />
He said studying in one of the school campuses was an “enriching<br />
experience” which “mattered a lot in the transition” in his persona.<br />
Principal Vera Hazela says her association with the school has been<br />
a “great one”.<br />
Talking of the exposure the school gives to its students, she said the<br />
school holds 32 educational international events every year.<br />
<strong>School</strong> spokesperson Rishi Khann said the management, staff and<br />
students were overjoyed over the Guinness recognition.<br />
The school was founded in 1959 by Jagdish Gandhi and his wife<br />
Bharti Gandhi in a rented premises with just five students and a<br />
borrowed capital of Rs.300.<br />
The school was also awarded the prestigious UNESCO Prize for<br />
Peace Education in 2002, becoming the only school worldwide ever<br />
to receive this honour.<br />
(Mohit Dubey can be contacted at mohit.d@ians.in)<br />
– Indo-Asian News Service<br />
md/mr/tb<br />
IANS