Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran

Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran (Indian School Tehran)
Location
Tehran
Iran
Information
Type Co-educational
Motto Seekers of True Knowledge
Opened 1952
School district Baharestan
Principal P.C Sharma
Grades LKG - XII
Enrollment September onwards
Campus size 5,000sqm
Campus type School
Color(s) Orange, White, Green
Communities served Indian, Bangladeshi, British, Romanian

Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran ("Indian School Tehran"; Hindi: केन्द्रीय विद्यालय संगठन; Persian: مدرسه هندی تهران‎‎) was an Indian co-educational international school in the Baharestan District, Tehran, Iran.[1] Affiliated with the Embassy of India, it serves grade levels LKG (3 years and up) through XII (16 years).[2] It is now closed due to political issues The school, one of several Kendriya Vidyalaya institutions, has roughly 350 students ranging from three years old to 16 with each class size being approximately 15-20 students. The school's primary taught languages are English, Hindi, and French, Persian is also taught as a means of communications for the students.

The local school hosts children from several countries including the India, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Romania, Thailand, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to name a few. Several British children moved to the school when the British Embassy School closed its doors in 2011, after the raiding of the British Embassy Tehran due to the proximity to the British Embassy compound on Ferdowsi Street.

History

KV School Tehran with Indian Ambassador

The original Indian school has been in Iran since the 1930s. It moved to its present location in central Tehran in 1952 and became a Kendriya Vidyalaya in 2004; it currently teaches five languages. On Wednesday, it received a 200,000 rupee boost, the third such grant in the past four years.[3]

The school was originally affiliated first to Panjab University and later to the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

However, following the 1979 revolution, the number of Indian families dwindled to 60-65 and enrollment plummeted. In 2004, the Indian embassy decided to hand it over to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), which has since boosted the number of students of other nationalities, mainly children of diplomats working in the central Tehran.

The school was hit by a financial crisis in 2009-10 and would have gone under but for a Rs.810,000 grant from the External Affairs Ministry, to which visiting Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar added a Rs.200,000 grant in 2011.

“Today, we have 189 students on our rolls from LKG to Class 12. Fifty-one of these are non-Indians. I am happy to tell you that our class 10 and 12 result has been 100 percent in the past two years,” said Mr. Kishore.

The school was visited by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, who agreed to offer funds from the New Delhi government to fund the school.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Contact us" (click button for the section). Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran. Retrieved on June 21, 2016. "LOCATION:KVT is located in the heart of the city, Dirstrict [sic] No. 12, commonly known as: Baharestan" and "OUR ADDRESS: No. 24, Darvish Street, Noor mohammadi Ave, Qayedi (Hedayat) Avenue, Sǎdi Ave, TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of IRAN"
  2. ↑ "Cass strength as on 31-3-2015" [sic]. Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran. Retrieved on June 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ians (2012-08-29). "Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran teaches it all". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
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