Doon School Wants a Taste of SAARC
India's elite send their children to the Doon School, at the idyllic foothills of Garhwal, so that they are groomed to become the country´s future leaders. Soon, Doon may be churning out leaders for all of South Asia.
The Doon, preeminent among India´s exclusive public schools, plans to start admitting deserving pupils on SAARC scholarships.
The school, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in October with a gala affair, is talking with the Indian government, which will take up the matter with the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu. The old boy network is said to have come in handy when Doon´s Headmaster Shomie Ranjan Das approached the South Block with the proposal.