COME IN TO LEARN, GO OUT TO SERVE

 The National Policy on Education (1986) states that “ It is universally accepted that children with special talents and aptitudes should be provided opportunity to proceed at a faster pace by making good quality education available to them irrespective of their capacity to pay for it.” This policy envisaged establishment of JNV in each district of the country. In 1985-86, two schools were started on experimental basis One at Amaravati (Maharastra) and other at Jhajjar (Hariyana) . The numbers of schools have now grown to 544 spread over 34 union states and Union territories (except Tamilnadu). Navodaya Vidyalayas are fully residential and co-educational schools covering class VI to XII. The Navodaya Vidyalaya is a very innovative scheme meant for talented children predominantly for the rural areas, unprecedented in its scale and dimension in the field of education in India or for that matter anywhere in the world. The scheme is a testimony to the government’s commitment towards promoting national integration and provision of quality education to the talented children particularly from the rural areas of our country.          Admission to Vidyalayas is done at the class VI level through an open test conducted at District level by the CBSE. About 80 students are admitted in each JNV which ensure all-round development of the personality of children by providing good academic guidance apart from input in other non-scholastic areas by providing good facilities for sports, NCC, Scouts& Guides adventure activities , Computer education etc. One of the salient features of the Navodaya Vidyalayas is migration under which 30%of children studying in class IX from Navodaya Vidyalaya in a Hindi belt gets shifted for studies in a JNV of Non-Hindi area and vice-versa and thus helps to promote National integraion. Hon’ble Minister , Human Resources Development , Government of India , New Delhi Shri Arjun Singh is the chairman of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. Shri O.Nabhakumar Singh, IAS is the commissioner and member secretary of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Hqrs., New Delhi. He has control over all the 544 JNVs of the country through eight Regional Offices at –Bhopal, Lucknow, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Pune, Patna, Gowhati and Chandigarh . Each Regional Office is controlled by the Deputy Director to supervise the progress and functioning of all the JNVs of the Region. There are 77 JNVs in Bhopal Region –covering three states- M.P., C.G., & Orissa & eight clusters. Shri V.K.Sharma, Deputy Director Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Regional Office, Bhopal is the controlling authority of Bhopal Region. JNV Malhar, Bilaspur comes under Raipur cluster. Other JNVs of this clusters are JNV Raipur, JNV Rajnandgaon, JNV, Durg, JNV Mahasamund, JNV Raigarh, JNV Sarguja, JNV Korba, JNV Janjgir-Champa & JNV, Dhamtari. Shri K. Keshav Rao, Assistant Director Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Regional Offfice, Bhopal is the Incharge Assistant Director of this cluster to monitor the functioning of these eleven Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. Shri A.k. Sharma, Principal, JNV Rajnandgaon is the cluster Incharge Principal of Raipur cluster.

Developed by  Shri Navin Kumar Gupta, PGT-Physics   under the suggestion of Principal Shri B. K. Mahanti