Santosh Mattu
DPS Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) principal Santosh Mattu is retiring after eight years with the institution.
She is returning to Delhi where her family resides.
Mattu came to Doha in March 2003 to steer the institution.
According to a DPS-MIS communiqué, issued by school president Hassan Chougule, Mattu is retiring as she has reached the retirement age stipulated by the CBSE.
While thanking Mattu for her dedicated service for the institution, the management, staffers and students said in the statement that the principal and her team had been planning and working on the school’s transition all these years.
“She (Mattu) has prepared the ground for the next leadership to maintain the quality and excellence that was the hallmark of her eight-year leadership of the school,” said Chougule.
Thanks to Mattu’s dedication DPS-MIS is “today considered as one of the best institutions in Qatar for Indian education”, having been recognised by the Supreme Education Council in the order of No.4 in the PISA assessment, said Chougule.
Besides producing excellent academic results, the school has achieved outstanding results in inter-school competitions across the Gulf region.
Her stewardship saw the launch of Total Quality Education system in the school, creation of excellent governance structure and a 10-fold increase in students numbers in the last eight years, from just about 350 to almost 3,500 right now.
Mattu’s contribution in the school undertaking the work of its new building in Wakrah also merited attention, the statement said.
Until a new principal is appointed, vice-principal Asna Nafees will serve in that capacity.