The Rani Hooja
Lifetime Footprint
For a Lifetime of Impact in Education
Rani Hooja
Rani Hooja
Rani Hooja is one of India's most distinguished public servants and educators - a woman whose career has spanned decades and whose impact on Rajasthan's educational and administrative landscape is immeasurable.
A retired IAS officer of the 1974 batch, she served in senior positions including Chief Secretary of Rajasthan. But it is her decades-long commitment to education - as practitioner, advocate, author, and institution-builder - that defines her deepest legacy.
She is the author of multiple acclaimed works on Indian history and Rajasthan's heritage, and has been a founding force behind institutions and initiatives that have shaped educational policy and practice in the state.
Why This Award Exists
For Lives Devoted to Education
Rani Hooja's footprint in education is not measured in a single achievement, but in the cumulative weight of decades of contribution - teaching, writing, building institutions, shaping policy, and mentoring a generation of educators and administrators.
The Rani Hooja Lifetime Footprint in Education recognises educators whose contribution cannot be reduced to a single moment or milestone - those whose life's work, taken as a whole, represents a profound and lasting gift to Indian education.
2025 Awardee
Rita Singh
Rita Singh has spent her career building - not just schools, but communities of learning. As Director of the Indirapuram Group of Institutions, she has overseen the growth of an education network that has served thousands of children across multiple decades.
What defines her contribution is not any single decision or achievement, but the consistency of her commitment: to quality, to fairness, to the belief that every child in her schools deserves the best possible education.
Words of Honour
"Rita Singh's footprint in education is the kind that deepens with time. The Rani Hooja Lifetime Footprint in Education honours a leader whose career, viewed as a whole, represents something rare: a life genuinely and completely devoted to the education of children."- ScooNews Memorial Awards Jury, 2025
Award Ceremony - 2025
Moments from the inaugural ScooNews Memorial Awards at Global Ed-Fest 2025, Jaipur.
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