In a developing nation like India, the missions S. Eswaran persevered were neither smooth nor easy.  Still, his visionary leadership and focused initiatives and programs as a General Secretary from 1997 to 2014 improved the solidarity of Indian teachers within the All-India Primary Teachers Federation (AIPTF) and connected them to global teachers’ organisations.  These national efforts were well received and directly resulted in several active movements that improved the professional conditions for teachers across India with other national leaders.  His honest commitment and extraordinary dedication to the cause brought tens of thousands of state primary school teachers to show extraordinary camaraderie and solidarity.  These co-ordinated movements that focused on improving the status and rights of primary teachers resulted in the gradual improvement of teachers’ quality of life both professionally and economically.  His national-level work in the All-India Primary Teachers Federation (AIPTF) was under the guidance and in complete synchrony with late Shri Acharya M.V. Donde and late Shri Jagdish Mishra, the founders of AIPTF.  The government recognised the genuine need to support and facilitate primary education in a developing India when he was at the negotiation table rallying for support to improve the quality of education throughout his life.