AVP, Sparsh Academy · Founder, UVA Institute · PhD Scholar, IIM Sambalpur
Twenty-seven years of P&L ownership across classrooms, franchise networks and digital learning — from a single centre started with ₹5,000 to an 84-centre pan-India network, and India's first live-class TV channel for NEET & JEE aspirants.
Profile
I started in front of a blackboard — eight years as a chemistry faculty member and HOD across Narayana, Brilliant Tutorials, Career Launcher, Bansal Classes and Aakash. Students I mentored directly took AIR 1 in both JEE and AIPMT. That grounding never left: every business I have built since is judged first on whether the student learns.
The second half of my career has been about ownership. I built India's first satellite-based VSAT hybrid learning programme from concept to 12 centres. When that programme was shut down, I acquired the master franchise rights, founded UVA Institute, and rebuilt it independently — 10 to 84 centres and 1,500 to 28,600 students in twelve months, ₹20 Cr+ in revenue, and a profitable exit.
At Aakash I ran two national digital businesses as an internal business-unit leader, including a live-class TV channel on Airtel DTH delivered in two months and scaled to a lakh of paying subscribers. Today I am the founding leader at Sparsh Academy, building a new EdTech venture from zero, and I own the IP for an AI-powered future-pathway assessment platform for grades 6–12.
Alongside the work, I am a PhD scholar at IIM Sambalpur — twenty-seven years in, still a student of the thing I do. Career choices have consistently prioritised ownership and scope over title.
How I operate
Every mandate I have taken has come with revenue, cost and consequence attached — including a first posting to Bengaluru with ₹5,000 and instructions to start a centre. It returned ₹45 lakhs and never drew on head office.
A campaign is a spike; SOPs, franchise playbooks and performance management are what let 84 centres in different states run to the same standard. I write the playbook before I scale the network.
100% JEE Mains selection at JNV for four consecutive years did more for enrolment than any campaign. Academic outcome is the only growth engine in this industry that compounds.
Track record
Each of these started as an idea with no team, no product and no revenue attached to it.
Acquired master franchise rights for Vidyamandir Classes' VSAT course after Educomp shut the programme down, and rebuilt it independently. Enterprise partnerships with the Indian Air Force, THDC, BPCL, Jindal Power, NTPC and JNV. Diversified into CSIR NET, coding and English language. Exited profitably.
10 → 84 centres · 1,500 → 28,600 students · 12 monthsConceived and delivered in two months for NEET and JEE aspirants, then scaled to a lakh of paying subscribers at ₹249/month within a year — a monthly-renewal business. Led content strategy across vernacular study material, concept videos and edutainment.
1 lakh+ subscribers · ₹249/month · 2-month buildLaunched during the lockdown when centres could not open, reaching students across India, Dubai, Bahrain and Nepal. Followed with Aakash Prime Class, a VSAT-enabled classroom programme for internet dark zones — a low-input, high-income model.
₹1 Cr+ in the first campaign cycleSole senior executive on a full founding mandate: content library, faculty, operations and two coaching centres built from scratch, converting the promoters' concept into a working EdTech business. Own the P&L, the GTM strategy, brand positioning and school partnership outreach.
550+ students · 5 school tie-ups · 18 monthsJourney
The platform
Most career tests hand a fourteen-year-old a list of job titles. This one maps aptitude, interest and learning behaviour across grades 6–12 into a future pathway a student and a parent can act on — and it has been run on real students, not a sample survey.
Conceived, built and personally owned as IP. Currently in use inside Sparsh Academy and available for school partnerships.
Film
A short video profile, plus appearances on Doordarshan as an academic and NEET expert.
Who I am, what I have built, and what I am looking to build next.
On DD News, on education and student outcomes.
On DD National, on preparing for the NEET examination.
Credentials
Connect
Open to leadership mandates in EdTech and K–12 — academic operations, business growth and P&L ownership — and to school partnerships for the assessment platform.
