Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

History

The concept of opening Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in every district of India was born as a part of section 5.15 in New Policy on Education (NPE86)

As per policy of the Government, one Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya is to be established in each district of country. Accordingly Navodaya Vidyalayas have been sanctioned for 576 districts. In addition to 10 JNVs have been sanctioned in districts having large population of ST population and 10 JNVs in districts having large concentration of SC population and 2 special JNVs in Manipur bringing total number of sanctioned JNVs to 598. Each Vidyalaya has provision for a full-fledged campus with sufficient building for classrooms, dormitories, staff quarters, dining hall and other infrastructural facilities viz. playgrounds, workshops, library and labs etc. In November 2016, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved opening of one Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in each of the 62 uncovered districts. That will bring total number of JNVs to 660 once operational.

The Samiti

Navodaya Vidyalayas are run by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy, Govt. of India. The Chairman of the Samiti is the Hon'ble Minister of Human Resource Development.

The Samiti functions through the Executive Committee under the Chairmanship of the Hon'ble Minister of HRD. The Executive Committee is responsible for the management of all affairs including allocation of funds to the Samiti and has the authority to exercise all powers of Samiti. It is assisted by two Sub-Committees i.e. Finance Committee and Academic Advisory Committee, in its functions.

The executive head of the administrative pyramid is the Commissioner who executes the policies laid down by the Samiti's Executive Committee. He/she is assisted at the Headquarters level by Joint Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Asstt. Commissioners. At the Regional level, he/she is assisted by the Deputy Commissioners and Asstt. Commissioners.

The Samiti has established 8 Regional Offices for the administration and monitoring of Navodaya Vidyalayas under their jurisdiction. For each Vidyalaya, there is a Vidyalaya Advisory Committee and a Vidyalaya Management Committee for the general supervision of the Vidyalaya. District Magistrate of the concerned district is the Chairman of Vidyalaya level Committee with local educationists, public representatives and officers from the District as members. The Vidyalaya Management Committee has two sub-committees i.e. Vidyalaya Purchase Advisory Sub-Committee and Vidyalaya Appointments Sub-Committee.

Regional Offices of NVS

The Regional Offices of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti are located at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Hydarabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Pune & Shillong with jurisdiction over different states and UTs. The Regional Offices are headed by a Deputy Commissioner.

Admission

Admission to the JNVs requires qualifying in an entrance exam, called the JNVST, designed, developed and conducted by NCERT earlier and now by the CBSE, except lateral admissions in the class IX and XI to the very limited seats held on annually apparently on February 2 Sunday. It is administered by the respective Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya regional center. The test encompasses reasoning/Mental ability skills, Maths, and Regional language. The school provides reservation as per mandate of Govt. of India, at least 75% selection of students from rural areas, maximum 25% from urban areas and fixed 33% to girl students. The JNV Samiti takes extensive care to make the applications available (and to communicate their availability through multiple media outlets) to far-flung rural districts, so as to properly serve this under-served population. Every year every JNV select about 80 most meritorious students. There is no admission fee and no re-admission fee however the non below poverty line and General category male students of Class IX to XII are charged ₹200 per month in welfare of Vidyalayas called Vidyalaya Vikas Nidhi.

Locations

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti was established in 1985 and it set up its first school in Kaloi,district Jhajjar,Haryana on 5/3/1986 and another school was set up in Amrawati,Maharashtra on 6/3/1986 . Since then, it has established nearly 600 schools across the Country, including Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep, except Tamil Nadu From 2014-15 session some schools are given Samsung Smart Lab.

List of Navodaya Vidyalayas

PUDUCHERRY

1. JNV Puducherry

KERALA (14 JNVs)

1. JNV Trivandrum
2. JNV Kollam
3. JNV Pathanamthitta
4. JNV Alappuzha
5. JNV Kottayam
6. JNV Idukki
7. JNV Ernakulam
8. JNV Thrissur
9. JNV Palakkad
10. JNV Malappuram
11. JNV Calicut
12. JNV Kannur
13. JNV Wynad
14. JNV Kasargod

A & N ISLANDS U.T. (2 JNVs)

1. JNV Middle Andaman
2. JNV Nicobar

ANDHRA PRADESH (15 JNVs)

1. JNV Ananthapur
2. JNV Chittoor
3. JNV East Godavari-I
4. JNV Guntur
5. JNV Kadapa
6. JNV East Godavari-II
7. JNV Krishna
8. JNV Kurnool
9. JNV Nellore
10. JNV Prakasam - I
11. JNV Prakasam - II
12. JNV Srikakulam
13. JNV Visakhapatnam
14. JNV Vizianagaram
15. JNV W.Godavari

ASSAM (28 JNVs)

1. JNV Baksa
2. JNV Barpeta
3. JNV Bongaigaon
4. JNV Cachar
5. JNV Chirang
6. JNV Darrang
7. JNV Dhemaji
8. JNV Dhubri
9. JNV Dibrugarh
10. JNV Dima Hasao
11. JNV Goalpara
12. JNV Golaghat
13. JNV Hailakandi
14. JNV Jorhat
15. JNV Kamrup-I
16. JNV Kamrup (Urban)-II
17. JNV Karbianglong-I
18. JNV Karbianglong-II
19. JNV Karbianglong-II
20. JNV Karimganj
21. JNV Kokrajhar
22. JNV Lakhimpur
23. JNV Morigaon
24. JNV Naugaon
25. JNV Nalbari
26. JNV Sivsagar
27. JNV Sonitpur
28. JNV Tinsukia
29. JNV Udalguri

BIHAR (39 JNVs)

1. JNV BHOJPUR
2. JNV Dharwad
3. JNV Waraseoni
4. JNV Ernakulam
5. JNV Ahmednagar
6. JNV Balasore
7. JNV Cachar
8. JNV Nadia
9. JNV Chittoor
10. JNV East Godavari
11. JNV Gadag
12. JNV Golaghat
13. JNV Jorhat
14. JNV Kollam
15. JNV Krishna
16. JNV Prakasam-I
17. JNV Sahibganj
18. JNV Sitapur
19. JNV Surajpur
20. JNV West Champaran
21. JNV Malampuzha
22. JNV Gumla
23. JNV KANNAD AURANGABAD .
24. JNV INDORE
25. JNV TUINOM
26. JNV MAHARAJGANJ
27. JNV Barabanki

Cultural activities

Cultural activities are a key part of the JNV program. Each school has a music hall where the students are taught to play different musical instruments. Inter-school competitions are held at all India level.

Sports

JNVs give great emphasis to sports. Every JNV provides facilities for handball, football, volleyball, basketball, kho-kho, badminton, kabaddi, hockey, and cricket. The daily schedule allots at least two hours a day toward sports or other play activities. The campuses also provide a gymnasium and multi-purpose room for indoor games.

Inter-school competitions are also yearly once at cluster, regional, national, and SGFI (School Games Federation of India) level.

Scouting, Guiding and NCC

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti is recognised as a state for Scouting and Guiding activities by the Bharat Scouts and Guides. Navodaya students regularly and actively participate in programmes of BSG. NCC is being introduced in JNVs in a phased manner. Samiti had a total cadet strength of 9420 during 2003-2004. As part of NCC training, students of the JNVs attended several camps and excelled themselves.

Migration

One of the important features of the JNV scheme is an exchange programme wherein students visit JNVs in different linguistic regions . The aim of the exchange program is focused on national integration. According to the scheme, selected 30% of 9th class students are exchanged between JNVs of non-Hindi speaking region and Hindi speaking region, for one year and students of two collaborated navodayas are taught language of their associated state as third language for four years, from class 6th-9th. s.