Govt to open 31 more Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas

               With an aim to increase access to quality education, the Government has decided to open 31 more Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas across the country, with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi slated to inaugurate them on Wednesday.

                            Gandhi is also expected to interact with students of four such schools in the states of Kerala, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh through video conferencing mode from the capital, said sources in the HRD Ministry.
                        

                       The programme is coinciding with the Literacy Day celebrations on Wednesday.
At present, there are over 550 such schools in rural areas across the country providing free education.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) seek to provide good quality modern education to the talented children predominantly from the rural areas.

                              The establishment of the new schools come at a time when the Government is planning to introduce new programmes in the existing schools and widen their appeal.

                               While there are plans to establish ''science magnet schools'' under the ambit of JNVs, sources said deliberations are also on to set up theme based-JNVs.
                                

                              These schools could lay focus on particular disciplines like sports, art or music, they said.
Offering vocational education programmes are also being contemplated, a decision on which is likely to be announced during the inauguration of the new schools.

Sukhbir wants to help the leh girl from Jawahar Navodya Vidyalaya (JNV) Chandigarh

Punjab govt adopts 9-yr-old Skalzang Angmo; on Leh visit, Deputy Chief Minister makes announcement

File photo of nine-year-old girl Skalzang Angmo with her mother Stanzin Dolm

                         The Punjab government today adopted Skalzang Angmo, a nine-year -old girl, who lost her sister, house and entire belongings to the devastating August 6 cloudburst that left over 200 dead in Leh.
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal made an announcement in this regard at the Solar Valley Relief Camp in Choglamsar after visiting the flood-ravaged areas.
The Tribune had first highlighted the plight of Angmo’s mother, Stanzin Dolma, who lost her elder daughter — Denchen Paldon — to the flash floods and had no resources left to educate the other. The Union Government has already decided to sponsor Angmo’s education.
“I have been regularly reading stories on Skalzang Angmo, who has even cleared the test for admission to Class VI at Jawahar Navodya Vidyalaya (JNV) in Chandigarh. But her mother has no funds to send her there. So, the Punjab government has decided to adopt the girl,” said Sukhbir.
                  
                 “As the Union Government has already announced free education for the girl, the Punjab government will pay all other expenses till she completes her Class XII. The family doesn’t need to worry about her now,” said Sukhbir.
                   The girl’s mother was full of gratitude. “I was really worried about my daughter’s future. But now all my troubles are over,” said Dolma, with tears rolling down her cheeks. Denchen was a topper and class VII student of JNV, Chandigarh.

Washed away in Leh floods: A bright future Chandigarh Navodaya topper among victims

                 Thirty-five years old Stanzan Dolma has only memories left of her daughter Denchen, a Class VIII topper from Chandigarh’s Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in Sector 25, where she had been studying since the last two years.
               
              Denchen Paldon is no more. On summer vacations to her native Choglamsar village in Leh, she got washed away in the floods that hit Ladakh on the night of August 6. Her mother and younger sister Skalzang survived, but only to be left as good as dead.

“The children were sleeping when the waters came in gushing around 11.35 pm. I barely managed to wake them up. It was as though the sky had left open all pipes. Denchen went off in seconds. People were flying away into the water. In 20 minutes, everything was razed,” recalls Stanzan, huddled in one corner of Himank relief camp at Choglamsar, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi visited this week.
Until that fateful night, everything was going well for this family, having braved odds for years. Abandoned by her husband, Stanzan took upon herself to educate her daughters. She sent them to Chandigarh Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 29, under the Scheduled Tribe category. Soon, Denchen cracked the CBSE all-India test to enter Class VI at Chandigarh JNV. Her sister followed suit this year and was to return for admissions when the tragedy struck. Ironically, both would have been back by August 1 had their mother not extended the stay.


                           Now, she can’t stop cursing herself as memories come gushing by: “The sisters were so excited. I was also relieved as JNV has a hostel and I would have saved the money I spent on children’s rent in Chandigarh. For their sake, I sold vegetables, did all kinds of odd jobs… Everything is finished now,” Stanzan breaks down, seeking sponsorship for her younger daughter who is in trauma after losing her sibling, her soul mate. Also, she is haunted by a constant fear of the floods. “What if waters take away my mother too?” says the girl, as The Tribune offered to take her back to her school.


                            In Chandigarh, JNV principal Pawan Kumar Sharma today heard the news of Denchen’s death from this correspondent. He said, “We sent several letters on Denchen’s Leh address wondering where she was. She left in June for holidays. We are shocked to hear this. She was brilliant and very sober. It’s a huge loss to us.”


                             The school has assured that though admission deadline for entry to Class VI expired today, it would write to the CBSE to treat Skalzang’s case with the compassion it deserves. The JNV has sought from The Tribune a letter about the tragedy involving the family.


                           Stanzan is, meanwhile, hoping someone would assume the guardianship of her child till the time she pieces her life together. She can’t leave Leh until land claims are sorted out.

Business Today Coverage of Navodaya - Schools Of Hope

Visiting Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) at Patiala and Shimla, two of the 560 such residential schools run by the central government in as many district of India, one meets pupils who are hugely talented but come from distinctly disadvantaged backgrounds. For schools located in rural areas and serving such children, JNVs seem to be shining, surpassing their more privileged urban counterparts. In terms of pass percentage in CBSE exams conducted for 10th and 12 classes, JNV boys and girls have been beating students of not just other government schools but also the much more privileged children from private schools. M.S. Khanna, Joint Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), the government agency that manages these schools, says that thousands of JNV alumni have excelled in the hardest competitive exams and the got the best jobs. Here are first-person accounts of some of them.

And here are  Some of the Dignities  From Navodaya

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Arjun Singh (29) Vice President, GTS Technology, Citibank, N.A., Jersey City "A lot goes to the JNV for shaping me to what I'm today" I was born in a small village called Amarpur in Meerut district of UP. My father was earning as little as Rs 800 per month from his daily labour." My family was very happy when I joined JNV at Sardhana in Meerut district in 1988 as education was free there. They were confident that the school would give me a much better environment than the village, which was hardly conducive to any worthwhile education. After passing out of JNV in 1995, I got admission in BITS-Pilani from where I was selected by Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd (COSL) as part of campus placement. Located in US, now, I'm the Vice President of global IT projects, Citigroup. A lot goes to the JNV for shaping me to what I'm today.

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Nirmal Prakash(29) Join MD, Smarftech "I'd not have broken free from my circumstances without JNV" "I was born in Barheta village of Darbhanga district in Bihar. It was a life of struggle. In retrospect, making it to JNV was the biggest moment of my life. A couple of other boys who were at JNV with me came from one of the poorest families in our village. These boys were so poor that they didn't have a rupee to spend in all the years of their stay at JNV beyond what they were provided free at the school. We were absolutely astonished to see the facilities at the JNV - well furnished classrooms, labs, mess, and hostels. More importantly, the cross-cultural environment at JNV helped us gain confidence. Our teachers came from various states. Our school merged all caste divisions that characterise our society. In 1998, I cleared IIT. From there I got selected for Muehlbauer, a German RFID technology provider. In 2007, I joined Smarftech as joint MD. I'd not have broken free from my circumstances without JNV.

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Rajendra Meena (32) IRS Officer, Central Excise "The turning pointing in my life was my admission to JNV" I was born in a desert hamlet called Thikariya Bajana in Nagore district of Rajasthan. There were no schools in the vicinity. So I went to live with one of my uncles in Jaipur. The JNVs were considered quality schools as they were run by the central government on CBSE curriculum. More importantly, however, they provided free education. That was a big thing for poor families. So my family rejoiced when I got admission into JNV-Jaipur in 1986. For them it was like a scholarship-free and good education. In those days the amenities and infrastructure at JNV-Jaipur was still in the making. Some old buildings were taken up. Power supply was erratic and even food grants were scanty. Despite these problems, JNV was a great school for us poor rural kids. My school sheltered me from the discriminations and divisions of our society. In 2000, I cleared the UPSC exam for the Railways where I worked for some years. In 2004, I got selected in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). The turning pointing my life was my admission to JNV. So I credit most of my success to JNV.

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Flight Lieutenant Rajani Boyapati (27) Project Manager, Goldstone Tech "JNV turned me into a smarter, more self-confident person" I was born in Ghanatasala village of Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district in a lower middle class family. My father was a farmer and mother a housewife. I have one sibling. When I was in fifth class, one of my teachers told me about JNV, which were considered quality schools. One of their merits was the CBSE curriculum, which was regarded as more rigorous than the state board curriculum. The greatest advantage of these schools was that they provided free education, boarding and lodging. My father could never have been able to afford the kind of education I got at JNV. So my parents were happy when I got selected. It was indeed a process of continuous improvement at JNV. I was at 3rd position in the 12th class. I secured a great academic foundation for higher education. I later did BTech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from S.V. Hindu College of Engineering at Machilipatnam ( Krishna district). By the time I completed my BTech, I got selected in Short Service Commission and joined the Indian Air Force (IAF) as an engineer and was designated as a flight lieutenant. I worked at IAF from July 2001 to July 2007 and then joined the Hyderabad-based Goldstone Technologies as a project manager. JNV turned me into a smarter, more self-confident person. That was the turning point.

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Rahul Mehta (12) 7th grade student, JNV Patiala "Rural kids shine at Navodaya Vidayalayas" Rahul Mehta (12) looks like a normal school kid except that his family background will make a sociologist very interested. This seventh-class student of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Patiala (Punjab), who comes across as intelligent and sincere, belongs to a family that most Indians never associate with the ones whose boys go on to become IAS officers. (That's what Rahul wants to become.) Rahul's father runs a fruit juice stall and mother is a housewife. One of his two brothers studies in a government-run local school and the other works as 'compounder' in a doctor's clinic in a semi-urban area in Zirakpur (Punjab). Rahul, however, has the heart and mind to remain focussed on his studies. In sixth class - his first year at JNV-Patiala - he secured 95.3 per cent marks in aggregate. His scores in both science and maths: 100 per cent.

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Navodayas on Culture Course

Navodaya Vidyalayas, the chain of Centre-run residential schools, will diversify from regular courses and start cultural schools to help students develop and nurture their skills in music, dance and drama. Four such schools focusing on the performing arts will be set up. The training will enhance the aesthetic sensibilities of students and make them self-sufficient. After the courses, they can take up jobs or pursue further studies.              The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti’s executive body, headed by Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal, has approved the plan and has asked the organisation to submit a detailed proposal, ministry sources told. Under the proposal drawn up so far, there will be four years of schooling starting from Class IX. Students will study parts of general courses such as math, science and literature in Classes IX and X. But in Classes XI and XII, they will focus on culture.                 The students will organise exhibitions and programmes. Another key objective behind such schools is that they will help strengthen the cultural roots and preserve national heritage.                     The schools will encourage children to develop a taste in classical music, dance, folk forms, theatre and art. Students who are good in music will be given admission through a talent search.                     The diversification does not end with culture. The Navodaya Samiti has also decided to start what are now being described as “10 science magnet schools” which will be dedicated to science subjects.                These will be located near the scientific institutions and research laboratories. Students passing out from these schools will pursue advanced scientific research. This proposal is set to go to the Union cabinet soon.               The 594 Navodaya schools, which mainly target the rural poor, are regarded as islands of excellence. About 97 per cent students of these schools pass the board exam every year. About 74 per cent are from families with an annual income less than Rs 48,000.                           The Navodaya samiti has argued that about 4 to 5 per cent children in every community are gifted students who need to be identified and provided with quality education.

IAS Exam Success: This Guys from NAVODAYA did it - so can you

                Ten days after making the grade, Vinod's eyes still well up every time his illiterate father talks to visitors or telephone callers about his son's hard won success in clearing the Indian civil services exam.

                 Every time the retired unskilled labourer Janardan praises his son - an MBBS doctor who will now be an IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer - for his perseverance and toil, the grateful son says his success is nothing compared to the backbreaking labour his father put in all his life to educate his sons. 

With his parents in their thatched house in village Visapur near Chandrapur, 160 km from here, Vinod Bahade recalls all his yesteryears - in the Zilla Parishad school in his village, then the Navoday Vidyalaya in Talodhi Balapur nearby, and then the junior college in the bigger colliery township of Ballarpur .

"As I pored over my books in dim lantern light every night, my father would say he would do anything to see me become a doctor or an engineer. I wondered where he was going to bring the money from for my education," Vinod reminisced.

"When I actually passed my school exam with marks enough to secure admission to a medical college, my father, who was a labourer in BILT (Ballarpur Industries Ltd) sought voluntary retirement and reserved his Provident Fund for my education," Vinod told IANS with an unmistakable lump in his throat.

Even while studying medicine, Vinod did not entirely give up the idea of becoming an IAS officer (that he had toyed with while in junior college) though he thought he could serve the society as a doctor as well.

"But the stark poverty and backwardness I saw as an intern in the rural hospital in Narkhed (in Nagpur district) and as a medical officer in Jimalgatta, an inaccessible tribal village in Gadchiroli district, firmed up my resolve to operate on a larger canvass. I started preparing for the civil services exam," he said.

Vinod passed the prelims and mains in the very first attempt in 2004 but lost out by a whisker in the personal interview.

In the second attempt, which he could take only after another stint as an medical officer, he failed again but persevering still, he had yet another go at it - and was through this time.

Gratefully acknowledging the valuable guidance he received from the P.N. Rajbhoj Institute for IAS Coaching, run by a retired bureaucrat Mumshilal Gautam in Nagpur, and the government IAS coaching centre in Mumbai, both meant for poor and backward class students, Vinod says the time has come to repay the debt.

                         They have stars in their eyes, compassion in heart
 

Question over Navodaya Entrance Test -Which said to violate the RTE Act..

         JNV Schools were first to hit by Right to Education Act.RTE act mandates that there should be no screening or entrance exam for admissions in the exams.Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), is said to be the first one to violate this rule.


         National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) posted a notice to NVS for holding an all-India entrance test earlier this year for admission to 500-odd Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalyas.
NVS.NCPCR is looking for an explanation, worst case NVS will need to look for exemption of itself from RTE act.
                           
                शिक्षा के अधिकार कानून में रोक के बावजूद प्रवेश परीक्षा के जरिए नवोदय विद्यालयों में दाखिले पर राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार संरक्षण आयोग भले ही सख्त हो गया हो, लेकिन नवोदय विद्यालय समिति इस मामले में पीछे हटने को तैयार नहीं है। उसने दो टूक कह दिया है कि नवोदय विद्यालयों में दाखिले की इस प्रक्रिया में बदलाव संभव ही नहीं है। इतना ही नहीं, उसने सरकार से भी कह दिया है कि नवोदय विद्यालयों को शिक्षा का अधिकार कानून के दायरे से बाहर रखा जाना चाहिए।

                     प्रवेश परीक्षा के आधार पर नवोदय विद्यालयों में हुए दाखिले पर राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार संरक्षण आयोग [एनसीपीसीआर] का नोटिस मिलते ही नवोदय विद्यालय समिति ने अपना जवाब भी उसे भेज दिया है। समिति के आयुक्त मनोज सिंह ने एनसीपीसीआर को साफ कर दिया है कि 75 प्रतिशत ग्रामीण और 25 प्रतिशत शहरी बच्चों की दर्जनभर अलग-अलग श्रेणियों के तहत नवोदय विद्यालयों में छठवीं कक्षा में होने वाले इन दाखिलों के लिए प्रवेश परीक्षा के अलावा दूसरा रास्ता अख्तियार ही नहीं किया जा सकता। उन्होंने कहा है कि दाखिलों में अनुसूचित जाति, जनजाति, लड़कियों, शहरी और ग्रामीण जैसी श्रेणियों के साथ ही हर जिले के नवोदय स्कूल की सभी सीटों को ब्लॉक स्तर तक बांटकर प्रतिनिधित्व दिया जाता है।

                 आयुक्त का कहना है कि नवोदय विद्यालयों में छठवीं कक्षा की कुल 38 हजार सीटों के लिए लगभग 16 लाख बच्चे प्रवेश परीक्षा में बैठते हैं। मतलब एक सीट के लिए औसतन 42 आवेदक होते हैं। इन स्कूलों की स्थापना का उद्देश्य सभी समुदायों के प्रतिभाशाली बच्चों को सामान्य पढ़ाई से अलग गुणवत्तापूर्ण शिक्षा मुहैया कराना है। ऐसे में यह संभव ही नहीं है कि नवोदय विद्यालयों में दाखिले के लिए आवेदकों में से औचक चयन किया जाए, जैसा कि शिक्षा का अधिकार कानून में प्रावधान है।

                        इस बीच, नवोदय विद्यालय समिति ने मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्रालय को भी पत्र लिखकर इन स्थितियों के मद्देनजर नवोदय विद्यालयों को शिक्षा का अधिकार कानून के दायरे से बाहर ही करने की मांग कर दी है। गौरतलब है कि एनसीपीसीआर ने पहली अप्रैल से लागू हुए इस कानून के प्रावधानों को नजरअंदाज करने पर उससे हफ्ते भर में न सिर्फ जवाब तलब किया है, बल्कि नवोदय विद्यालयों में हुए दाखिलों को रद करने का भी निर्देश दिया है। ऐसा न होने पर उसने कार्रवाई के लिए भी चेताया है।

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Success in Civil Services, JEE fires Navodaya Vidyalaya schools

                             With 16 of its alumni having made it to the Civil Services this year and another 152 having cracked the IIT-JEE, the government-run Navodaya schools have set their aim higher, at a figure of 10,000. Tying up with coaching institutes and tutorial centres, the chain of 560-plus Jawahar Navodaya schools spread across the country plans to help that many of its Class XII students clear national- and state-level competitive entrance examinations annually.

Under the new scheme tentatively christened ‘Mission-Ascribed Career’, the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) will chart out everything from coaching to loans at concessional rates for its students.

The 16 alumni who cleared the UPSC Civil Services exam made it to the Indian Revenue Service and Indian Forest Service, apart from other allied services.

                  If some cleared the IIT-JEE, other students secured admission to regional engineering colleges through high scores in the AIEEE and other examinations. Still others cleared medical entrance exams to prestigious collegesSet up in the 1980s, Navodaya schools aim at providing quality modern education to talented children, predominantly from rural areas.

                    With Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal putting his weight behind the scheme, the aim is to get at least 10,000 students to clear either national-level or state-level entrance examinations, which will guarantee them admission to professional courses, say sources.

             “Besides partnering with coaching centres essentially for a free training module for Navodaya Class XII students, progressive discussions are on with the Union Bank of India to help with funding if students do secure admission to these courses. With 20,000 students in Class XII across all Navodaya Vidyalayas, aiming at a 50 per cent admission score is quite do-able,” said a senior officer.While in 2007 the NVS signed an MoU with NGO Dakshana Foundation to provide free Internet-based IIT-JEE coaching to its students, this time they are getting into partnerships with many more such institutes, like Narayana Educational Institutes. Also keen to make a mark in the PMT exams, the NVS is in discussions with Delhi-based Akash Institute.

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Honours

On behalf of JNV Sehore Alumni and  Navodaya pariwar I congratulate the Following students selected in the AIEEE 2010 from JNV Sehore :-


   Name                  College Alloted                     Batch                Contact No.

1.Ravi Patidar          MANIT Bhopal                   2002-09             9691791858  

2.Balram Jat            Jodhpur Univ.                      2003-10            7828903609

3.Lalit Kushwah      Jodhpur Univ.                       2002-09             9165731243

for any query regrading AIEEE contact at above given nos.And if any  student who has been selecetd but not in the list plz send your detail at :-ballunavodaya@gmail.com

Congrates !!!!Cheers Navodians!!!!

Balram Parmar