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NAVODAYA SCHOOL

History

First established in 1985 at Amravati, Maharashtra, they are the

brain child of P.V Narasimha Rao. They were started during PrimeMinistership of Rajiv Gandhi to find and foster talented children fromthe rural parts of India.[1] They started with the name NavodayaVidyalayas and renamed later as  Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas inthe birth-centenary year of Pandit Jawaharlal Lal Nehru.

Objectives

• In our efforts to fulfill the constitutional obligation of 

providing ’education for all’, we should not lose sight

of our higher ideal ‘excellence in education’

• As per this recommendation, today 551 navodaya

schools are functioning in which 1, 80,000 talentedstudents of rural areas receive quality education.Among these schools 22 are in Andhra Pradesh, 13 inKerala, 27 in Karnataka, 4 in pondicherry and 2 inAndaman-nicobar islands.

•  To provide good quality modern education to the talentedchildren (selected on the basis written merit test)

predominantly from the rural areas, without regard to theirfamily's socio-economic condition.

•  To ensure that all students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayasattain a reasonable level of competence in three languages asenvisaged in the Three Language Formula.

•  To serve, in each district, as focal points for improvements inquality of school education in general through sharing of experiences and facilities.

Admission procedure

 Talented students from each district are selected through an AllIndia Level Entrance Exam conducted initially by NCERT and now byCBSE and are given admission to 6th standard/class in the JNVs of respective districts. Till 1998, the Jawahar Navodaya VidyalayaSelection Test (JNVST) was conducted by the Central Board of  Secondary Education. The test is largely non-verbal and objective innature and is designed to prevent any disadvantage to childrenfrom rural areas. The test is held annually on all India basis an at ablock and district levels. Now admissions are also taken in Class IX

and XI. During academic year 2008-09 admissions will be allowed inClass VIII. These admissions are conducted through an objective and

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descriptive test containing questions on English, Mathematics,Science, & Social Sciences. This "Lateral Entry" system is devised tofill the vacancies that arise due to withdrawal of admissions of thechildren who are admitted in class VI.

Eligibility

Since the Vidyalayas have an objective of providing opportunity andeducation to the underprivileged children of rural areas, theentrance examination has a list of eligibility criteria. They requirethe student to be:

1. a student of V standard by a Government recognised school2. in the age group of 9-133. a student of III, IV and V in a Government recognised school in

a rural area, to apply for a rural quota.4. a first time appeared in the entrance exam

Fees

Since 2005, a moderate and uniform fee structure is implementedacross all JNVs to reduce the dependency on Goverenment.However, girls are exempted from paying any fees. A monthly fee of Rs 200 is collected from boy students. Also, boys from ScheduledCommunities(SC), Scheduled Tribes(ST) and Other BackwardCommunities(OBC), who parents does not fall into creamy layer as

specified by the Government are exempted from paying any fees.

Reservation

Seats are reserved for the children of rural areas. At least 80% of the seats in a district are filled by candidates selected from ruralareas and remaining seats are filled from the urban areas of thedistrict Reservation of seats in favour of children belonging toScheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is also provided inproportion to their population in the concerned district. Thesereservations are interchangeable and over and above the

candidates selected under open merit. Efforts are made to ensurethat one-third of the total seats are filled up by girls.

 These students are given free accommodation, food and clothingand are allowed to continue their studies till class 12. All expensesare borne by the Government of India.

 The aim of establishing these institutes were to find and nurture thetalented students from rural India could not afford a good education. To ensure this, the ratio of 80% from rural to 20% urban students is

maintained by the schools.

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Navodaya schools are run by the navodaya vidyala samiti which isan autonomous organization under the ministry of human resourcedevelopment, department of secondary and higher education,government of India. The chairman of the samiti is the hon’bleminister of human resource development. Hon’ble minister of state

for education I the ministry of H.R.D is the wise chairman of thesamiti.

 The samiti functions through an executive committee.

 The executive committee is assisted by two subcommittees that arefinance committee and academic advisory committee, in itsfunction.

Student life

Academics

 The successive academic results of JNVs in public examinationsconducted by CBSE and the records about placement of studentsafter passing out from the Vidyalayas are a clear pointer that theestablishment of the Javahar Navodaya Vidyalays is a step in theright direction. The results of class X and XII examinations of theVidyalayas have been consistently better than the overall CBSEnational averages. These results are remarkable and show thesuccess of the Vidyalays despite the rural background.

Regional language is generally a medium of instruction from VI toVIII and from class IX onwards it is English for science andmathematics and hindi for humanities subjects.

Scouting, Guiding and NCC

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti is recognised as a State for Scouting andguiding activities by the Bharat Scouts and Guides. Navodayastudents regularly and actively participate in various programmes of BSG. NCC is being introduced in JNVs in a phased manner. Samiti

had total cadet strength of 9420 during 2003-2004. As part of NCCtraining, students of the JNVs attended several camps and excelledthemselves.

Games and sports

Games and sports are encouraged in the Jives to develop fitness,physical and neuro-muscular skills and promote the spirits of co-operation and sportsmanship. Vidyalayas organize National SportsMeets to identify talented children in sports. The meets happen at

cluster and regional levels every year where students from different JNVs compete. Students picked at regional level compete at national

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level. Based on the performance at National level, children get achance to play on behalf of Navodaya team, which is considered asa State, in Sports and Games Federation of India competitions.Specialised sports like archery, Judo and Gymnastics areencouraged in some of the JNVs. JNV Bangalore Urban of Hyderabad

region is one of such schools that has proved excellence in gameslike archery. There are also various exhibitions where the schoolsbring models and ideas which are then judged and awarded prizes.

Migration

One of the important features of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Scheme isa scheme of exchange of students from one Vidyalaya in aparticular linguistic region to another in a different linguistic regionto promote understanding of the diversity and plurality of India'sculture and its people. The Aim of the Migration in JawaharNavodaya Vidyalayas is focused on National Integration. Accordingto the Scheme, selected 30% of 9th class students are exchangedbetween JNVs of non-Hindi speaking region and Hindi speakingregion, for one year.

Other courses

In 1999, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti and Intel joined hands toconduct a pilot program for few selected schools on integration of technology in teaching and learning process. After the success of 

pilot project, around 3486 teachers across all the schools of theSamiti were trained during their summer and autumn vacationsduring the period 2001-2002.

 The various initiatives undertaken jointly by Intel and Samiti are:

• Smart School Project: Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment, Government of India, has launched a majorinitiative called the “Smart Schools Project” with the aimencouraging and promoting technology use in governmentschools of India.

•  Joint Contest: The duo launched a Joint contest foracknowledging the Best Integration of Technology inEducation in 2004.

•  Technology Plan Workshops: Technology Model schools andmaking them use the available resources judiciously. Keepingthe same in mind Intel and the Samiti decided on conductingfollowing set of activities:

o Workshop for NVS officials: In July 2005, Intel conducteda workshop on IT skills for Samiti officials.

o IT Curriculum Review Committee: Intel was invited to

take part in curriculum review committee.

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.This year Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti signed an MOU with Bharatiya Jain Sangathan (BJS), a Pune based NGO, for implementation of EDUQIP (Educational Quality Improvement Project). EDUQIP wassuccessfully implemented by BJS in Andaman Nicobar IslandSchools. It contains a basket of programs aimed at enhancing the

contributions of all the stake holders of the Navodaya Vidyalayas toimprove the quality. These projects will be implemented in all theNavodayas during 2007-11. During these three years BJS willestablish and operate the program with the help of selected trainedteachers of Navodaya Vidyalaya and later the project will be handedover to NVS.

NVS signed a MOU with an NGO, The Dakshana Foundation in year2007, according to which the foundation will provide free IIT-JEEcoaching to selected students, a batch of forty students from eachregion of NVS. Accordingly, coaching classes at fifteen sites,including one batch of 70 XII pass students is under operations.Seven batches out of which are to appear in IIT-JEE 2009.

Faculty

Well trained teachers are recruited through a national levelcompetitive examination. Trained Graduate Teachers teach fromClass VI to X and Post Graduate Teachers teach XI and XII classstudents. Vice Principal assists the Principal in administration.Committees of teachers are formed to effectively implement the

programs.

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s.no

regions No of JNVs States and No of the JawaharNavodaya Vidyalaya

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Bhopal

Chandigarh

Hyderabad

 Jaipur

Lucknow

patna

Pune

shillong

 TOTAL

94

45

70

54

82

75

60

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Madhya pradesh (48), chhatisgarh(16), orissa (30)

Punjab(18), Himachal Pradesh(12), J&K (14) & Chandigarh UT (1)

Andhra Pradesh(22), Karnataka(27),Kerala(14), Pondicherry(4), A & Nislands(2)&Lakhadweep(1)

Rajasthan(32), Haryana(20), Delhi(2)

Uttar pradesh(69), Uttaranchal(13),

Bihar(38), Jharkhand(22), westBengal(15)

Maharashtra(32), Gujarat(23), goa(2),daman & diu(2), dadra & nagar haveli(1)

Meghalaya(7), Manipur(9), Mizoram(8),Arunachal Pradesh(16), Nagaland(11), Tripura(4), Sikkim(4), Assam(26)

As on 31.03.2007

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