Platinum Jubilee
On 24 February 2008, the year of the Platinum Jubilee of the School, the batch of students that joined the School in its Silver Jubilee year - 1958 - and passed out in 1969, held their "Golden reunion" - the first reunion of its kind by any batch of the school.
The Platinum Jubilee Celebrations were held at SIES Nerul on 15 August 2008. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, then President of India, present as a guest, inaugurated SIES Education Assistance Trust(SEAT), set up to provide financial assistance to deserving needy students and also honored 75 alumni of SIES who had distinguished themselves. The list includes Dr. Krishnaswami Kasturirangan, former Chairman ISRO; P. S. Narayanaswamy D.G.P. Maharashtra(Retd.), Sridhar Ranganathan (Yahoo!), Ms. A. Ananthalakshmi, Shobha Iyer (Basketball - India) singers Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Aruna Sairam, Bombay Sisters, Ganesh-Kumaresh, Shreya Ghoshal, Naresh Iyer.
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