Mahavir Kumar

Founder

Founded Agastya International Foundation

Mahavir Kumar is the founder and chairperson / co-founder and managing trustee of Agastya International Foundation [1], an Indian non-profit working on education from Bengaluru.

Mahavir Kumar is a co-founder and the managing trustee of the Agastya International Foundation, an education trust based in Bengaluru that runs hands-on science and creativity programmes for children and teachers in government schools across India.

A Bengaluru stockbroker and a former president of the Karnataka Stock Exchange, he was among the founding trustees when Agastya was established in 1999.

Career

Agastya was founded in 1999 by a group of scientists, educators and businesspeople led by Ramji Raghavan; other founders included K. V. Raghavan, a former chairman of Engineers India Limited, and P. K. Iyengar, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. Mahavir Kumar has served as the foundation's managing trustee since its establishment.

The foundation operates mobile science laboratories, science centres and a campus at Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh, and works with government school children and teachers in states across India. Its programmes emphasise experiment-led learning intended to replace rote instruction.[2][3][4]

Agastya International Foundation

Agastya runs mobile science labs, science centres and hands-on learning programmes to spark curiosity among rural and government-school children. It reaches millions of students and trains teachers across India.

Agastya International Foundation reports the following, on its own site: