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Dr. Achyuta Samanta Receives Top Civilian Honour of Bahrain /PR Newswire India/ NEW DELHI, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- KIIT & KISS Founder, Dr. Achyuta Samanta Receives Top Civilian Award of Bahrain, Which Includes Certificate, Gold Medal and $1 Million Cash Prize Dr. Achyuta Samanta, noted social entrepreneur and reformer from India, was honoured with 'Isa Award for Service to Humanity', a top civilian award of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on June 3, 2015. The "man with Midas touch" received a certificate of appreciation, a 21K gold medal and $1 million cash prize at the hands of His Majesty King Hamad of Bahrain at a special ceremony. (Photo: ) The honour is in recognition of Dr. Dr. The Award is named after the Late Amir Shaik Isa Bin Salman-Al Khalifa, the former ruler of Bahrain. It is a matter of great pride for Dr. Dr. About Dr. Dr.

Achyuta Samanta: At 50, my life is still a struggle to feed poor: Achyuta Samanta | Bhubaneswar News - Times of India He lost his father at the age of four and has lived a life of struggle. Now, at 50, he is one of the most successful educational entrepreneurs in the country, providing free education and healthcare to thousands of underprivileged children. On a recent visit to Kolkata, KIIT & KISS founder Achyuta Samanta shared his vision and more during an interaction with TOI's Avik Roy . You have turned a remote village in Cuttack into a world-class educational hub. I have converted one remote village into a smart village. You have brought an education revolution in Odisha. I lost my father at the age of four. Between 1996 and 2017, it has been an eventful and long journey for you. I have decided not to expand KIIT University in any part of the country and the state but only focus on enhancement of quality. Despite that millions of children in the state are yet to step inside schools of any form. Successive governments and many NGOs have been running many such free schools. I am sure it has.

Mumbai Itinerary 5 Days | 5 Days in Mumbai Trip at a Glance: Mumbai 5 days The smartest way to travel around Mumbai would be with the help of this chic Mumbai itinerary 5 days. Spanning over 5 days, this itinerary covers 21 attractions in Mumbai including Elephanta Caves, Taj Palace Hotel, Crawford Market. Chennai: Achyuta Samanta offers KISS of life to tribal communities Chennai: It has been 23 years since Achyuta Samanta embarked on a journey to provide basic necessities like shelter and food as well as educating tribal children by bringing them under a roof at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS.) Dr Samanta, born into a poor family, lost his father when he was four. Reeling under poverty, and wanting to earn to sustain his family of eight, he began helping his mother by doing odd jobs, while continuing to study. After graduating with a Masters in Science degree, he put into shape his vision of starting two educational institutes, one, KIIT University that provided technical education offering courses like engineering and medicine, and the other, KISS that would be a residential educational institution for the tribal children. Today, KISS provides education to about 25,000 tribal children from 62 indigenous tribal communities of Odisha, of which 12,200 students are girls. ‘Youth is the power of India’ Excerpts: Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.

Why India doesn’t know Achyuta Samanta - Mumbai Mirror I can take a wager that most of you reading this article would have never heard of Achyuta Samanta. Or, for that matter, about KISS and KIIT (both in Odhisha). You would have heard of Odhisha, I am sure, but that too, only peripherally, if at all. But then, this is not Samanta's problem. KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences) is a temple of education where over 50,000 students, mostly from the remotest tribal areas, come to get an education that is free: from kindergarten to postgraduate studies. The reason I am writing this is because there are very few Samantas in India and even fewer who get their share of recognition. We have to become a country which flags off the good and the remarkable with as much vigour and at times, venom, that we do the bad. The real India is, in effect, made up of real people like Samanta. The time for India to produce more Samantas has never been more acute.

Travel Marketers Should Follow the Data on Millennials, Not Stereotypes – Skift Traveler stereotypes are a “plague” and will only prevent marketers from reaching their desired audiences, and following hard data will yield better results than giving in to easy clichés perpetuated by the media. Those are the views of Clayton Reid, CEO of MMGY Global, who addressed these themes at the Skift Global Forum at Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, in Manhattan on Tuesday. “Start thinking about micro-segments,” said Reid. “You have to dig deeper beyond what those stereotypes are.” Just as many young people in the 1970s weren’t really part of the Woodstock generation, Reid says that the travel industry has dangerously misunderstood millennials, who are diverse. A video montage showed various media personalities, including Lewis Black and Stephen Colbert, describing millennials as narcissistic, ignorant, and lazy. Along these lines, Reid stated that millennials are using brick-and-mortar travel agents more than any other age group, contrary to the digital-native stereotype.

Poverty-slayer steers poor on path of learning Up close with the man who rose from the depths of poverty to transform the neglected interiors of Odisha by giving their children an opportunity to craft a better future. A day spent with the 50-year-old founder of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). First impressions Achyuta Samanta has a unique gait. Samanta pays his obeisance to each deity at the temple, a replica of the Puri temple but on a smaller scale. So does the man who beat all odds to build one of the largest residential institutes for tribals in the world attribute his achievement to fate or divine power? Morning ritual over, we head to his office at KISS and find ourselves sitting in a pretty garden under a kadamba tree. Although it's a working day with a packed schedule, Samanta looks relaxed and all ready for what turns out to be a long and unhurried chat. An empty cup We rewind to Samanta's past when he was four. "My father had no savings. KISS of life

Dr. Achyuta Samanta - Achyuta Samanta KIIT - KISS | Founder KIIT and KISS Berlin Itinerary 3 Days | 3 Day in Berlins : TripHobo Trip at a Glance: Berlin 3 days If you want to experience the extravagance of Berlin, perfectly, then have a look at this Berlin itinerary 3 days . During this trip, you will cover 16 attractions from Berlin over a period of 3 days. This takes you to the landmark spots like Potsdamer Platz, Charlottenburg Palace, Holocaust Memorial. Along with a good mix of must see, outdoors, entertainment, leisure, family & kids, arts & culture, historical, museums activities like visit to Unter Den Linden, you will have a splendid time on your vacation to Berlin for sure. Kickstart your trip with a 01.00 hrs stay at The Fernsehturm and head straightaway to Museum Island after that.

Achyuta Samanta : An Inspiring Rags to Riches Story In a world, so full of competitions amongst the rich, the powerful and the rank holders, that the inner self of a human being often finds itself lost or rather trampled. We live in a world which is being ruled by Money, Power, Status and Corruption. Whether one believes it or not, there are still some people around us who could have become powerful both in strength and in financial means but who instead dared to create an equitable world sans hunger and ignorance despite being surrounded by wealth and power. In the early sixties, history was about to be written in a non-descript village Kalarabanka in the district of Cuttack. It was indeed a difficult choice for anyone grown in such a hopeless situation to think for getting education, but as if driven by an instinct, young Achyuta followed the few elderly boys to reach the school. The hunger, the poverty and the will to forge ahead kept him going. Achyuta Samanta along with the children of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences

Achyuta Samanta - Wikipedia Achyuta Samanta (born 20 January 1965) is the founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT); Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), which provides free accommodation, food, healthcare, and education from class 1 to post-graduation with vocational training; KIIT International School (KIS), an International Baccalaureate affiliated school, and Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a medical college. He is a promoter of culture and the arts through Kadambini Media Pvt Ltd (KMPL), an organisation he founded. He has been the organiser of Nanhi Pari, a Little Miss India competition, since 2000. He has established 25 spiritual centres and shrines, and is in the process of setting up 'Gandhi Gram' in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, a tribal museum to showcase tribal life, art and culture, and a centre for yoga and spiritualism. He got Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from Daffodil International University.[2] Biography[edit] Educationist[edit]

I was struggling to get two square meal a day but now I am able to feed lakhs of people - Achyuta Samanta - enarada.com ENARADA, Bangalore, September 8, 2013: The veteran in the field of Education and Social Service, Dr. Achyutananda Samanta has disclosed his struggle in establishing KIIT & KISS. In an interview with LokSabha TV , today, he said that though he was not born with silver spoon, he is able to feed lakhs of people (including children in different schools, staff and other underprivileged persons across India) due to divine arrangement. Dr Achyutha Samantha – the harbinger of education revolution in Odisha “Poverty creates illiteracy and literacy removes poverty” – this is the punch line used by Dr Achyutananda Samantha, an educationist and social service activist to bring about a revolution in the field of education in Odisha. Dr Achyutha Samanta is the founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), a multi-disciplinary university having more than 25 professional courses established in 1993. KIIT does not focus only on academic excellence.

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