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A Brief Biography of
Late DR JAGDISH GANDHI

Founder, City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, India

Dr Jagdish Gandhi, a social activist right from student days was greatly
influenced by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Vinobha Bhave.
In 1959 Dr Jagdish Gandhi and his wife Dr (Mrs) Bharti Gandhi laid the
foundation of City Montessori School popularly known as CMS , with five
children to impart value based education. Slowly and steadily CMS
became a popular school of Lucknow for meaningful education and
ideal grooming of children.
CMS has attained a unique status for being the world's largest school
by pupils in a single city with more than 63,000 students studying in 21
campuses in Lucknow recognised by the Guinness Book of World
Records.
A dynamic leader, Dr Jagdish Gandhi was staunch promoter of unity of
mankind, unity of religions, universal brotherhood and world peace.
Well known educationist and promoter of peace, Jagdish Gandhi was
awarded the Derozio Award for outstanding contributions to
education and human enrichment. He is a peace
representative of the World Peace Prayer
Society, USA . Under his dynamic leadership
CMS was honoured with UNESCO Prize for
Peace Education in 2002 in recognition of his efforts to promote universal values of education for peace &
tolerance.
Dr Jagdish Gandhi was the first Indian to be honoured with the Key to the city of Georgetown, USA , by its
Mayor, for being a true visionary in the field of education by introducing concept of Quality Control Circles in
Education. He was the Founder-Chairman of World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education
(WCTQEE ).

His talks on TV channels like Aaj Tak, News 18 India, APN News, Knews, Sadhna Plus News, India News,
Network 10, Bharat Samachar, India Voice and Sahara Aalami TV Channel are very popular and are listened
to with interest by a large number of followers of all religions, who admire his deep spiritual commitment.

65 GLORIOUS YEARS DEDICATED FOR WORLD UNITY SINCE 1959
Late Dr Jagdish Gandhi

Spiritual Giant and Humble Servant of Humanity

(10 November 1936 — 22 January 2024)
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