When Shankuntala Kale, chairperson of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, was announcing SSC results for the first time in her career, she was aware that a village in Ambegaontaluka was proud of its daughter who had made it to the topmost position in the board.
Kale was “married off” at the age of 14, just after she completed her Class X. “My father died when I was in Class IV. The situation at home was appalling. My mother worked as an labourer in the fields,” she said.
She completed her DEd and then a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Marathi language through distance learning from Savitribai Phule Pune University, while it was called University of Pune.
After stints in various education departments, Kale was made chairperson of the state board in September 2017.
Read more of this in a report by Ardhra Nair published in The Times of India...
