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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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