Siddhartha Vanasthali Institute

Infobox University
name = Siddhartha Vanasthali Insitute


motto = Knowledge is Power
established = 1973|
type = Private
city = Kathmandu
country = Nepal
students = 4000
staffs = 300

Siddhartha Vanasthali Institute (S.V.I), located in Balaju, Kathmandu, is one of the largest and oldest academic institutions of Nepal.It runs from primary level to secondary and even university level courses.It is regarded as one of the best institutions of Nepal which has extremely good results in SLC (School Leaving Certificate) examination with more than 60 national toppers in the history of SLC.

History and Founders

Late Prof. Bhuwan Lal Joshi and an educationist late Hon’ble Vijayanandan joshi founded Vanasthali Vidyashram in 1951 AD jointly. This was housed in a two-storied mud building with tiled roof at Balaju, six kilometers from downtown Kathmandu. The first batch of students came from the founders’ family to be followed by the children of the neighborhood. Late Marshal General Hari Sumsher J. B. Rana donated the land. To open a school itself was a great challenging task in those days when less then 1% people were literate in Nepal and the Rana autocracy was hostile to any academic activities. In spite of all kinds of harassments, the late founders were not to be daunted. However, the late Dr. Bhuwan Lal Joshi’s quest for knowledge made him to leave for universities in the USA where he studied varied faculties of knowledge. Later he was admitted to the psychology department at UC Berkeley for graduate work. He took his doctorate in 1964, and began teaching at Berkeley. He was in the first group of faculty when the campus at Santa Cruz began in 1965. He became Associate Professor in 1967. In short time his versatile personality won fame, favor and love in the world of men of letters and died quietly. Another founder, the late Hon’ble Vijayanandan Joshi, a pedant and born-teacher remained a source of inspiration to fight the multifarious problems that school had been confronted with.Mr. Laxman Rajbanshi, took over the school management in July 1973.Mr.Rupak Rajbanshi has been appointed as the new principal from 2006.

Scholarship

A competitive examination is held among the top ten students of the final exam among nearly 400 students in each grade or level. The top three in the competitive exam are awarded with a Merit scholarship for one academic year.Scholarship is also awarded to those students whose work in any field of extra curricular activities is internationally recognized.

SIVAA

The number of graduates from Siddhartha Vanasthali School has crossed 6500 by now. In an average, this shows that in average no less than 250 students get through the SLC from the school annually, indicating that the school has produced the highest number of graduated students in the Kingdom.Such a massive number of Graduates from this institute has produced a wide range of human resources. In its history of twenty five years, Siddhartha Vanasthali’s graduates have secured good places in the technical, medicine, economics, management, politics and in the social fields.Beside professionals, hundreds of our boys and girls are enrolled in various academic institutes for higher courses dreaming to build their professional career.Siddhartha Vanasthali Alumni Association is now popularly known as “SIVAA” (the short form of the association). The association was formally established in 1985 (2041 B.S) through the effort of 1977 SLC batch (2033 group).

[http://www.svi.edu.np/ Official Web Site]