Dr Jawahar Surisetti, eminent educationist and psychologist, has been bestowed the BBC Knowledge Award for outstanding contribution to education at the World Education Awards at Taj Lands End in Bandra by the Minister of Education of Malaysia on 18th February. He was honoured for this award for his mass movement to reduce dropouts and girl education.
Dr Jawahar Surisetti, as he is popularly known as, commits 30 days in a year, to tour mofussil areas of the tribal states and talks to a lakh of students every year on his scheduled tours with the governments of states, Tata CSR, Santosh Rungta Group, Dainik Bhaskar, Times of India, UN and many other partnerships. He reaches out to the disadvantaged boys and girls and counsels them on careers and opportunities available to them, exam stress and other such issues that they are not aware of.
