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                                                                                 HI VIPRA, COULD YOU PLEASE
                                                                                 GIVE US A BRIEF SUMMARY OF
                                                                                 WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR JOURNEY
                                                                                 BEFORE FOUNDING AKSHVI?
                                                                                 From my schooling point of view,
                                                                                 I feel lucky that I could learn from
                                                                                 a couple of different renowned
                                                                                 schools with a story attached to
                                                                                 every one of them. Up to 9th class,
                                                                                 I did my schooling from Atomic
                                                                                 Energy Central School (AECS) at
                                                                                 Narora Atomic Power Station (Uttar
                                                                                 Pradesh) where I actively took part in
                                                                                 national Olympiads. India has similar
                                                                                 Atomic Power Stations at 22 places
                                                                                 across the country with a successful
                                                                                 operation of 500+ reactor years. I
                                                                                 did my 10th class from Army Public
                                                                                 School, Noida where I got to learn in
                                                                                 a very disciplined environment and
                                                                                 ventured into diverse activities like
                                                                                 cinematography, sports, debates,
                                                                                 seminars, singing, oil painting, etc.
                                                                                 This was the time where I also got
                                                                                 a 100% Scholarship in FIITJEE for
                                                                                 the preparation of IIT-JEE 2016. And
                                                                                 then 11th & 12th class of schooling
                                                                                 from Saint Xavier Sr. Sec. School,
                                                                                 Jaipur. During this time, I chose
                                                                                 Economics as an optional subject
                                                                                 with PCM.
                                                                                    I feel good that I could give
                                                                                 due justice to my schooling with
                                                                                 throughout involvement in various
                                                             Vipra Goyal         co-curricular activities, maintaining
                                                                                 10 pointers CGPAs, getting a 96% in
                                                                                 PCM and badges of NTSE & KVPY
                                                                                 Scholar as well. And then clearing
                                                                                 the world’s toughest exam IIT-JEE
            A YOUNG LEADER                                                       with admission at IIT Kharagpur,
                                                                                 I got a platform to develop &
            EMPOWERING CITIZENS                                                  deliver technological solutions to
                                                                                 the masses. I did my post-gradu-
                                                                                 ation in Economics with a minor in
            FOR SUSTAINABLE                                                      Maths & Computing. During this
                                                                                 5-year tenure at Kharagpur, I first
            DEVELOPMENT                                                          got a chance to build a Pan-India
                                                                                 Dashboard at NITI Aayog (Planning
                                                                                 Commission of India) to visualize
            A ONE-ON-ONE WITH VIPRA GOYAL,                                       Indian Agriculture on all parameters
                                                                                 through a single-window system
            FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, AKSHVI AWARE                                     which was duly appreciated by the
            PVT. LTD.                                                            CEO – NITI Aayog, Mr Amitabh
                                                                                 Kant. Additionally, at NITI Aayog
                                                                                 itself,
                                                                                    I got a chance to go through
                                                                                 some of India’s biggest but less-
                                                                                 er-known “Yojanas” announced after



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