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President
  
Shri Ujjwal Rana

Grades
  
KG-12

Phone
  
011 2462 7344

Faculty
  
60

Principal
  
Ms Anuradha Joshi

Number of students
  
approximately 2000

Founded
  
1 April 1957

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya

Motto
  
विद्यैव धनमक्षयमKnowledge is the sole undiminishing wealth

Established
  
April 1, 1957set up and administered by Gujarat Education Society

Address
  
Lodi Estate, New Delhi, Delhi 1100 03

Similar
  
Modern School, Delhi Public School R, Air Force Bal Bharati School, Convent of Jesus and Mary, The Frank Anthony Public Sc

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is a school in New Delhi, India, located in the heart of the city at Lodi Estate. It has 1500 students from the nursery level to the 12th grade, with 200 teachers and supporting staff members.

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The School was set up and is administered by Gujarat Education Society.

Shri Ujjwal Rana is the President of the Society.

The school is named after a leader of the Indian independence movement, and independent India's first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Children of delhi s sardar patel vidyalaya singing chandan hai maati mere desh ki


Language policy

It is perhaps the only private school in India that employs Hindi as a medium of instruction in the primary school. Though primarily subjects such as Math, science and social studies are taught in Hindi, students are taught 'technical terms' which are the English counterparts of whatever they learnt. This equips them to proficiently use the same in both languages.

Students are provided instruction in four languages. English is the medium of education from the 6th grade onwards. Hindi and Sanskrit are mandatory until the 8th grade. In the 9th grade, students are asked to choose between Hindi and Sanskrit.

The objective of this policy is to produce young citizens who are not only bilingual but also equi-lingual in Hindi—national link language—and English—international link language. The students have to choose a fourth language from Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu or Bengali. This helps the student acknowledge the richness of the Indian culture. It shares an equal status with music where songs in these languages are often taught.

Sports

The school has football, basketball, volleyball and cricket teams, and has produced many top class cricketers and athletes who have played for the nation or Ranji teams, including Ajay Jadeja, Rahul Sanghvi, Gagan Khoda, Deep Dasgupta, Vivek Razdan and National Record holder, highjumper Tejaswin Shankar.

Every year Activity Week is held in the school in which the school's four houses i.e. Shakti, Neeti, Jyoti and Pragati compete. During the sports week events like 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m race, shot put, javelin throw, discus throw, high jump, long jump and triple jump are held. Inter house basketball, football, volleyball and chess matches are also held. An inter-house sports quiz is held.

Principals

  • Raghubhai M. Nayak
  • Vibha Parthasarathy
  • Y K Mago (officiating)
  • Mukesh Shelath
  • Kusum Lata Warikoo
  • Vijaya Subramaniam (officiating)
  • Anuradha Joshi (2007–present)
  • Rhodes Scholars

    SPV has produced a number of Rhodes Scholars. In 2006, for example, three of the five Indian Rhodes Scholars were alumna of SPV. In 2005, two of the six were alumni.

    Arts and media

  • Varun Badola, television actor
  • Nandita Das, film actress, director
  • Richa Chadda, Movie actress, Filmfare awardee
  • Sandeep MarwahFilm & Television Personality
  • Shahana Goswami, Bollywood actress
  • Ketan Mehta, film director
  • Pakhi Tyrewala, actress
  • Siddharth Narayan, actor
  • Poorna Jagannathan, Hollywood and Bollywood actor and producer
  • Anusha Rizvi, Bollywood film director
  • Suraj Sharma, film actor
  • Swara Bhaskar, Bollywood actress
  • Vikas Bahl, Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director
  • Sarah Hashmi, Bollywood actress
  • Literature

  • Mukul Kesavan, writer and essayist
  • Aman Sethi, Writer and Correspondent for The Hindu
  • Business

  • S. Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services and recipient of the Padma Bhushan
  • Anup Rau, CEO, Reliance Life Insurance
  • Administration

  • Vineeta Rai, Indian Administrative Service officer; former Revenue Secretary, Government of India
  • Science and technology

  • Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News
  • Kapil Hari Paranjape, Mathematician
  • Sports

  • Deep Dasgupta, Indian cricket team
  • Ajay Jadeja, Indian cricket team and TV commentator
  • Gagan Khoda, Indian cricket team
  • Vivek Razdan, Indian cricket team
  • Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricket team
  • Murali Kartik, Indian cricket team
  • Tejaswin Shankar, Indian Track and field
  • Law

  • Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, Former Addl. Solicitor General of India
  • Kaushik Moitra, Advocate, Supreme Court of India & Partner - TMT Law Practice
  • Ujjwal Rana Advocate, Supreme Court of India. Managing Partner, Gagrat & Co.- Law firm
  • Information

  • Two grandsons of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a granddaughter of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee have studied at the school.
  • References

    Sardar Patel Vidyalaya Wikipedia