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In 1986, Rajeev Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, announced a National Policy on Education to modernise and expand higher education programs across India.In 1986, he founded the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya System, a Central government-based education institution providing rural populations with free residential education from grades six to twelve.
Rajiv Gandhi [a] (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [1] [2] [3] was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister.
Navodaya Vidyalaya is the dream child of late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the Ex-Prime Minister of India. Later the school shifted to its own 30 acres (12 ha) campus in hilly area of Gajanur in 1990. The founder Principal Shri. H. N. S. Rao Ex. Deputy Commissioner (Academics), NVS, New Delhi had formatted the school in such a way that it continues to be ...
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kozhikode or locally known as JNV Calicut is a boarding, co-educational school in Kozhikode district of Kerala state in India. Navodaya Vidyalayas are funded by the Indian Ministry of Human Resources Development and administered by Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti, an autonomous body under the ministry. [ 1 ]
The Navodaya Vidyalaya Scheme was started in 1985 as part of the new education policy of the Government of India under Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to set up schools for children with special talents to progress at a faster pace irrespective of their capacity to pay for it.
But from a few years, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti has started taking online applications. While applying for admissions in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, the student must be studying in 5th standard in a school affiliated by central or state government. There is also a provision of lateral entry for students who want to join JNV's from 9th standards.
There are 661 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools in India. [1] These JNVs are governed by eight different regions. These Regional Offices are at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Pune and Shillong which have jurisdiction over different states and union territories of India. [2]
AskIITians is in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand to provide "three-month free coaching for preparing engineering and medical examinations" to students, utilising an "online base [with] live, interactive classrooms by the institute."