Pune, Oct 1 (PTI) Four months after being shortlisted for the ‘World’s Best School Prize,’ a Zilla Parishad (ZP) school in Pune district has bagged the Community Choice Award at the 2025 edition of the global competition.

Among other things, the award recognised the school’s peer learning system where students learn from each other. Jalindarnagar Zilla Parishad School in Khed tehsil was declared winner in the Community Choice Award category from among 50 short-listed schools, the organisers announced at a virtual ceremony on Tuesday night.

Notably, district authorities were going to close the school in 2022 as it had only five students on its rolls.

After Dattatray Ware, a national award-winning teacher, was transferred there, he mobilised local residents to rebuild the school infrastru

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