Jawahar Vidya Mandir

Jawahar vidya Mandir, Shyamali
Location
Ranchi Jharkhand
Information
Type	Public, Co-educational
Established	1972
Founder	MECON
School district	Ranchi
Principal	Mr. D.R. Singh
Number of students	7500
Classes	Nursery - 12
Affiliation	CBSE
Website	http://www.jvmshyamali.com/

Jawahar Vidya Mandir previously known as DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir is an educational institute in Jharkhand located at Shyamali Colony, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.

The school features education from the Prep to the Senior Secondary levels. It is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and is managed by a School Managing Committee appointed by MECON, Ranchi.

Overview

The school has a strength of around 7,500^{[citation needed]} students & the campus is spread around 4.5 acres.The curriculum is based on CBSE directives under the guidance of Prep. There are seven sections named A-G in each class till standard 10^{[citation needed]}Xth. The school runs in two sessions; morning and afternoon for XI and XII^{[citation needed]}. This is due to the large number of students who apply for admission in the Science stream.The school has a record of giving 40-50 students to IIT every year.

The principal of the school is Mr. D. R. Singh.

The cut-off for admission in Science stream is well above 92%^{[citation needed]}.The school has laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology, computers and maths. The school has two libraries - the general library and the reference library (for the students of class XI-XII)^{[citation needed]}.

Campus

The school consists of separate campuses for primary, secondary and higher secondary. A big and sprawling section for senior secondary has been constructed.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumni

The Indian Cricket Team captain M. S. Dhoni is an alumnus of this school.

Gallery

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  Panorama of one of the school buildings

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  Front side of the school building

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  DAV Building

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  Grounds of DAV

The school began in 1964 as Jawahar Vidya Mandir^{[citation needed]}. The principal was Ms Parmar^{[citation needed]}. The school started with only one building, where the present Primary School is located^{[citation needed]}. During this period the school had Nursery, KG I and KG II classes before Class I. In 1971 the Primary School building was extended for more classes/sections.^{[citation needed]} In 1973, the class KG II was removed, the children were given two options; one either to get double promoted to class I or remain in KG II.^{[citation needed]}

In 1973, the school changed its name from Jawahar Vidya Mandir to DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir and started following the CBSE Board and again in 2008 it changed to Jawahar Vidya Mandir^{[citation needed]}. In 1975, the new school building was ready and the School got divided into Primary School and Secandary School^{[citation needed]}. In 1975 the School principal was Dr Vohra who continued till 1978-79 and was replaced with Mr Ramakrishna as the principal^{[citation needed]}. Mrs Krishnaswamy was the Vice Principal. Subsequently, Mr RE Singh (from Netarhat) joined as Dean of the school with Mr Ramakrishna continuing as principal^{[citation needed]}. Subsequently, Mr Ramakrishna left with Mr R.E Singh as the principal^{[citation needed]}.

Mr. R.E.Singh, Principal (1983–2000) was succeeded by Mr. D.R.Singh (2000 till date)^{[citation needed]}.

External links

• Official website
• Alumni website