A global education group is planting its first Indian flag in Gurugram — and Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini is making it state policy. On Saturday, 1 August 2026, Saini met Dr. Vishwajeet Rana, Group CEO of GEDU Global Education, to discuss weaving international partnerships into Haryana's school system, announcing that Queen Elizabeth's School, Gurugram will be GEDU's first campus in India.

Queen Elizabeth's School: Cambridge curriculum lands in Gurugram

The school will operate under the Cambridge International Curriculum, the globally benchmarked framework used by thousands of institutions across more than 160 countries. For Haryana students, that means access to a standardised learning pathway recognised by universities worldwide — a significant upgrade from what most government-adjacent schooling partnerships have historically offered.

Saini described the development as 'an important step towards providing world-class learning opportunities for our students,' directly tying it to the national Viksit Bharat 2047 vision — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's blueprint to position India as a fully developed economy by the centenary of Independence.

NEP 2020's blueprint made real in Haryana

This move does not emerge in a vacuum. The National Education Policy 2020 explicitly encouraged Indian institutions to adopt international curricula and forge global academic partnerships — a mandate that states have moved on at varying speeds. Haryana's engagement with GEDU is among the more concrete state-level expressions of that policy, converting a central directive into a physical campus.

The broader pattern is clear: since NEP 2020, several states have pursued tie-ups with international education groups to raise learning outcomes and workforce readiness. Haryana is now visibly in that race, with Gurugram — already a hub of multinational corporate presence — as the logical launchpad.

What Haryana's push for a 'globally competitive knowledge ecosystem' means

Saini's stated goal is a 'globally competitive knowledge ecosystem through meaningful collaborations' — language that signals this is intended as a template, not a one-off. The Gurugram campus is GEDU's first India school; if it scales, additional campuses and curricula partnerships could follow across the state.

The immediate questions are practical: enrollment timelines, fee structures, and whether the school's reach extends beyond Gurugram's affluent corridors to students from less privileged backgrounds. Those details remain to be formalised. What is already on the record is a sitting Chief Minister publicly endorsing a private international school group as a pillar of state education strategy — a signal the market and policymakers alike will read carefully.

Haryana has drawn the line from a single school in Gurugram to a developed India in 2047. The distance between those two points is where the real work begins.