Founded 15 June 1987 | ||
Address Hirco PALACE GARDENS, Tamil Nadu 603204 Similar Arun Excello Temple G, Hiranand Palace Gardens, Sivananda Gurukulam, Thirutheri, Akshaya Metropolis | ||
Thriveni academy
Triveni Academy/ Thriveni Academy promoted by Madras Motor Finance and Guarantee Ltd (MMFGL) under the Trustee name SANATHANA DHARMA GURUKULAM LIMITED was one of the Asia's largest residential schools. The schools was affiliated under CBSE Board Registration No 7017. The school was founded on 15 June 1987 by Mr.P V Sivan Nair who had no formal background in children's education nor any prior exposure to the K12 segment. The school has ceased to exist and is being modified into a township by M/s Hiranandani. The school was a very flourishing and competitive school in all manners like studies,sports and extra curricular activities but it bore the brunt of bad management and the whole school went down in shambles. Politics had a play in the functioning of the school where student from various parts of the country and overseas were a part of it.
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Every year the school's strength increased over an average of 1000 plus students and accordingly in its 8th year reached over 9000 students and then the management changed. The change of management made many internal issues and the new management was not prepared to manage its multi-cultured students and brought school's strength down from almost 9000 to 3000 students or less.
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Sports and Cultural Facilities
The school was built on a land mass covering 1200 acres and had some of the largest sporting facilities available amongst Indian schools such as three swimming pools including an olympic size one, circular roller skating rinks, multiple horse riding tracks with around 100 horses and stables, multiple basketball courts and soccer fields, Hockey field, Cycling track, 400 meters running track, multiple tennis courts, multiple squash courts and a muti gymnasium. Cultural facilities were given its own importance and music classes were conducted extensively. Musical instruments included violin, tabla, sitar, harmonium, etc.
Campus buildings: It had numerous multi storied buildings inside the campus which included an in house mega size temple which could accommodate 1000 plus sitting visitors at a time, a shopping center, a hospital, an administrative building, a reception building etc. It also had open air assembly ground, open air movie theater, printing press etc. The school also encouraged students to attend temples / churches of their particular religion on weekends. The campus had three hostels including a different girls hostel. All the hostels had common rooms in every floor which acted as recreation centers for students. The common room facilities included table tennis, carrom board, chess, television etc. Every hostel had an outdoor badminton court. It had three school buildings (named as Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati) and every school buildinghad its own library, principal, staffs, teachers etc. It had multi-storied library, separate boys and girls mess, separate girls and boys sports fields. It had separate multi storied teachers quarters and mess.
Student Schedule: The daily schedule of all the students started from 5 am in the morning. The physical training exercises started from 5 30 am to 6 30 am. Breakfast was served from 6 30 am to 7 30 am. The timings of the school was only from 8 am to 1 pm and then lunch was served. 2 pm to 4 pm was afternoon nap time or students enrolled for music lessons or extra curricular activities such as painting, clay modelling classes used to attend those from 2 pm to 4 pm. Evening snacks was served from 4 pm to 4 30 pm. Sports session then started from 4 30 pm to 6 pm and every student was given the choice to pick whatever sports he was interested in. 6 30 pm to 7 30 pm was study time and then dinner was served from 7 30 pm to 8 30 pm. Lights were off at 10 pm. All the meals were served in mess which was an adjacent building annexed to the residential building and all the hostel buildings had their own separate mess.