Aychuta Samanta’s KISS: Mainstreaming Marginalized Communities through Education



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Introduction

The year 2013 was a key year for Achyuta Samanta, Founder of the KIIT Group of Institutions. Samanta, a noted educationist and social entrepreneur, was busy refining his plans to expand the operations of one of the much-acclaimed institutions he had founded in 1993, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), beyond Odisha to other parts of the country.

The KIIT Group of Institutions was a group of institutions run by the KIIT Education Society in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. It included self-financed institutions such as the KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), KISS, and other institutes. For Samanta, a 48-year-old bachelor, it had been a true rags-to-riches story.

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Samanta was touched by the plight of the tribal population in Odisha as this group remained marginalized despite the Indian government having constitutional safeguards and welfare schemes for them. The tribals often did not have access to even basic rights such as education, and this left them open to exploitation. Samanta started KISS in Bhubaneswar (the capital of Odisha) for educating tribal children as he contended that only education could get the tribal communities out of the vicious cycle of poverty.......

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