Aditya Jha was born to a Indian-Nepalese family in Madhuwa Village Mahottari, Nepal. (Half the village is in Nepal, and the other half in India.) His Mother tongue is Maithili. He was brought-up in a landed middle-class family of three brothers and two sisters. His father was a lawyer by profession and his mother was Indian from Sitamarhi district from where his father practiced law graduating from court of Sitamarhi, Bihar in India. Upon completion of his secondary education in a village near Indo-Nepal border, Aditya went on to pursue post-secondary education in Delhi, India. After receiving a bachelor's degree in sciences from Hans Raj College Delhi University, he went on to do M.Sc. Mathematical Statistics at Kurukshetra University and PG Diploma in Computer Science from Kurukshetra University. He further invested four and a half years from 1979 to 1984 as a Research Scholar at the School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University before visiting Paris, France, for mainframe computer training with CIT Alcatel for six months. He was the recipient of the University Grants Commission's Junior and Senior scholarship and Research Associateship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He was very active in student politics and student union activities and worked underground with those working against when Emergency measures suspending democratic rights in India were promulgated. He played a leadership role with the largest student organization in India as General Secretary for Delhi and Haryana state and was on the National Executive of the national student organization when he was just 22 years old."Entrepreneur hopes to see a 'needs-blind' educational system in Canada", Earleen Dover, communications officer, York University Foundation
