Kendriya Vidyalaya
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Kendriya Vidyalaya, (Hindi for Central School) is a system of Central government schools for children of employees of India's central government. The system came into being in 1965 and has been affiliated to CBSE since then. Initially called Central School, it was started mainly to cater to the children of people in the defence services who were often posted to remote places. With the army starting its own Army Public Schools, the service was extended (but not restricted to) to all central government employees. The uniform curriculum followed all over India is intended to ensure that wards of government employees do not face educational difficulties when their family is transferred from one place to another.
The name change was a part of the drive to make it more Indian. The drive also lead to a lot of the syllabus becoming more Sanskrit and pure Hindi based, with options for students to take Social Studies in Hindi or English. The Sanskrit prayers and higher level of Hindi curriculum was a part of the same drive which included the change of names in official titles such as Syndicate becoming Sangathan.
A few Indian embassies abroad have a school of this type for the children of embassy officials and expatriate Indian population (if a parent is a government employee). There are at least 929 Kendriya Vidyalayas at present including 4 abroad. These have been divided amongst 21 regions each headed by an Assistant Commissioner. Overall. there is a body known as the K. V. Sangathan that governs the school and its norms.
In such schools, children of top government officials and that of a lowly-placed government employee study together and this facilitates national integration at the grassroots level.
Alumni of these schools can be found all over the world.
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[edit] School Prayer
असतो मा सद् गमय:
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय
मृत्योर्मामृतं गमय
दया कर दान विद्या का हमें परमात्मा देना
दया करना हमारी आत्मा में शुद्धता देना
हमारे ध्यान में आओ प्रभू आँखों में बस जाओ
अँधेरे दिल में आकर के प्रभू ज्योति जगा देना
बहा दो प्रेम की गंगा दिलों में प्रेम का सागर
हमें आपस में मिल-जुल कर प्रभु रहना सिखा देना
हमारा धर्म हो सेवा हमारा कर्म हो सेवा
सदा ईमान हो सेवा व सेवक जु बना देना
वतन के वास्ते जीना वतन के वास्ते मरना
वतन पर जाँ फिदा करना प्रभू हमको सिखा देना
दया कर दान विद्या का हमें परमात्मा देना।
ओ३म् सहनाववतु
सहनोभुनक्तु
सहवीर्यम् करवाबहै
तेजस्विनामबधीतुमस्तु
मा विदुषावहै
ओ३म् शान्ति..... शान्ति..... शान्ति....।
Asatomaa sad gamaya
(From Untruth to Truth lead us!)
Tamasomaa jyotirgamaya
(From Darkness to Light lead us!)
Mrityormaa amritam gamaya
(From Death to Deathlessness lead us! )
Daya kar daan vidya ka hame parmatma dena
Daya karnaa hamari atma mein shuddhata dena
Hamare dhyaan mein aao, Prabhu! aakhon mein bas jaao
Andhere dil mein aa karke, param jyoti jaga dena
Baha do prem ki ganga, dilon mein prem ka sagar
Hame aapas mein mil-jul kar, prabhu rehna sikha dena
Hamara dharm ho seva, hamara karm ho seva
Sada eeman ho seva, va sevak jan bana dena
Vatan ke vaaste jeena, vatan ke vaaste marna
Vatan par jaan phida karna, prabhu humko sikha dena
Om SahanaVavatu
Sahnau-r-bhunaktu
Sahviryam karavavaheh
Tejasvina-m-vadhitamastu
Maa vidvishavahe
Om shantih!!! shantih!!! shantih!!
[edit] School Pledge
"India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters. I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage. I shall always strive to be worthy of it. I shall give respect to my parents, teachers and elders and treat everyone with courtesy. To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion. In their wellbeing and prosperity alone, lies my happiness. Jai Hind"
[edit] Schools Abroad
There are 4 K. V. schools abroad: in Kathmandu, Moscow, Tehran and Kuwait.
[edit] External links
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan BHOPAL (R.O.)
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools Details Statewise
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Kahalgaon
[edit] See also
[edit] Applause
- Due to the very varied backgrounds from which K. V. students hail, the culture here is also very colourful. The proven superiority of CBSE syllabus not only makes students on an average analytical and competitive, the down to earth culture breeds qualities of simplicity and flexibility. K. V. students usually don't just adapt well with higher economic circles, they are good in mixing comfortably with people of lower economic classes. That gives them a strong advantage in involving in careers of social responsibility.
- Hindi, the National language, is taught well in K. V.'s, even in the southern parts of the country. That binds the students with a majority of Hindi speaking portion of Indian population. English is given due importance. K. V. students are usually more masterful of Hindi, but they are quite comfortable with English.
- There is tremendous emphasis on patriotism and social awareness. While students grow in a language-, region-, religion-, and culture-neutral environment, they stand the highest chances of growing into worthy Indians, aware of its rich culture, adept in the national language making them one with the populace, and with scholastic powers to serve their nation to a prosperous future.
[edit] Criticisms
- There is a huge discrepancy among the K. V.'s in terms of academic focus and results. Whereas in the south K. V.'s are good educational institutions, in the north (especially north-east), K. V.'s are usually not very good with academic results. Also, the near-purely academic focus along with lax controls to curb unfair means leads to a very lopsided development as well as exposes children to cheating in exams from an early age.
- As the education is largely subsidized by the central government at the Indian taxpayer's expense, many private schools affiliated to the C.B.S.E. and the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations indirectly complain of unfair advantage of its students when compared to theirs in Indian standardized tests.
- Corporal punishment, widely believed to have disappeared in KVs and other government and government aided schools in India since the Supreme Court declaration several years ago, is still widely prevalent. Many teachers, aware of their comfortable position as government officials and immunity to student assessment, take advantage of this to abuse students, physically and mentally.
