JNV Basdei

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya is a secondary school situated in the village of Basdei at a distance of 10 km from Tehsil Surajpur and 50 km from District headquarter Ambikapur (Surguja) in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. It is also connected with a distance of 2 km from Surajpur Road Railway Station.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Basdei was started on 25th of June, 1992 with 40 students in its first batch. Mr. V S Ranawat was first principal of the school after whom Mr. S S Sai Pankraj served as principal for 10 years. The school is set up in an area of around 32 acres of land, equipped with administrative building, hostels (Boys & Girls), staff residence, guest house, mess, well equipped labs, art gallery and sports facilities with gymnasium etc.

The school is known in the district to provide good quality modern education including strong component of culture, inculcation of values, awareness of environment, adventure activities, physical education and computer education to the talented children predominantly from rural areas. It functions under a scheme evolved by the government of India under which residential co-educational Navodaya Vidyalayas are being established on an average one in each district.

The classes run from VI to XII standard as per CBSE syllabus. The medium of instruction is Hindi for Social Studies and Humanities, and English for Mathematics and Science. Navodaya vidyalaya scheme provides for migration of 30% children from the vidyalayas located in Hindi belt to the vidyalaya located in non-Hindi belt at class IX level. This school is having migration from JNV, Sonitpur, Assam as a result of which Assamese is the third language for the students up to class IX level. The school also has mini-migration system to the neighbouring cluster schools after class X where the students opt for continuing his/her study other than science stream. The schools to which those students are migrated are JNV Raipur and JNV Bilaspur for Commerce and Humanity stream respectively.