Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan is a system of central government schools in India
that have been instituted under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource
Development. It comprises over 1,000 schools in India and three abroad.
The system came into being in 1963 under the name "central schools" and has been
affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education since then. Later,
the name was changed to Kendriya Vidyalaya. Its objective is to educate
children of the Indian Defence Services personnel who are often posted to remote
locations. With the army starting its own Army Public Schools, the service was
extended to all central government employees. The uniform curriculum
followed by these schools all over India was intended to ensure that the children
of government employees do not face education disadvantages when their
parents are transferred by providing a common syllabus and system of education.
It still operates after fifty years. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan oversees
the functioning of these schools and has its headquarters in New Delhi, India.
The administration of this school is based on different levels; the chairman
of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan is always the Minister of Human Resource
Development, Government of India, and the deputy chairman is Minister of State
of MHRD. The real working power lies to Commissioner of KVS; there are certain
additional commissioners to accompany Commissioner in the administration of
KVS in different fields. The head of a KVS region is Deputy Commissioner
accompanied by certain Assistant Commissioner. There are individual
principals of every KV also administering that very school of which
they are made in charge. Locations
1,803 schools are named Kendriya Vidyalayas, 1,796 in India and 7 abroad.
A total of 1,148,340 students and 56,445 employees were on the rolls. These were
divided among 25 regions, each headed by a deputy commissioner.
The three Kendriya Vidyalayas outside India are in Kathmandu, Moscow and
Tehran. They are intended for children of Indian embassy staff and other
expatriate employees of the government of India. One school in Tshimalakha,
Bhutan, was transferred to the Bhutanese government, thus ceasing to be a
Kendriya Vidyalaya) in 1989, after one of the major Indo-Bhutan projects was
near completion and Indian government employees were gradually transferred
back to their home country. Features
All schools share a common syllabus and offer bilingual instruction. They are
all co-educational. Sanskrit is taught as a compulsory subject from classes VI
to VIII and as an optional subject until class XII. Students can elect to study
the German language. In Moscow, students are given an opportunity to choose
French or Russian as its third language. Tuition fees are charged for boys from
class IX onward, and students have to pay the school development fund, with
the proceeds spent on the development of that particular school. Students from
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and children of KVS employees are exempt
from tuition. Girls who are their parents' only child from class VI
onwards are exempt from both tuition and school development fund payments.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has started seeking quality accreditation for its
schools. The Quality Council of India has accredited eight schools: KV No. 1
Uppal, KV AFS Manauri, KV Sector-8 RK Puram, KV Bettiah, KV No. 1, KV IIT
Powai. KV Ganeshkhind, and KV No-1 BBSR. See also
List of Kendriya Vidyalaya alumni associations
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