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Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Vidhya Sarvatra Shobhate
Location
India
Information
Established	1965
School board	Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
Authority	Ministry of Human Resource
Website	http://www.kvsangathan.nic.in

Kendriya Vidyalaya, (Hindi: केन्द्रीय विद्यालय) (Hindi for Central School) is a system of central government schools under the Human Resources ministry of the Government of India.

The system came into being in 1965, named "Central Schools", and has been affiliated with CBSE since then. It serves the children of people in the defence services who are 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 by these schools all over India ensures that the children of government employees do not face educational difficulties when their parents are transferred.

The name was later changed from "Central School" to "Kendriya Vidyalaya".

There are 981 Kendriya Vidyalayas including four outside India, having 10,18,581 students (as of the end of August 2008) and 48,262 employees (including outsourced) on rolls (as of 1 March 2009). These have been divided amongst 21 regions each headed by an Assistant Commissioner.

A body known as the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (Central School Organization) oversees the functioning of these schools.

The objective is to cater to the educational needs of the children of transferable Central Government employees including Defence and Para-Military personnel by providing a common syllabus and system of education.

Contents 1 Common features 2 Schools outside India 3 Lessons against corruption and terrorism 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Common features

• Common text-books and bilingual medium of instructions.

• Affiliation with the Central Board of Secondary Education.

• Co-educational, composite schools.

• Sanskrit is taught from class VI to VIII and optional as a main subject in IX and X.

[edit] Schools outside India

There are four KV schools outside India: in Kathmandu, Moscow, Tehran and Kuwait. These are intended for children of Indian Embassy staff and other expatriate Indian central government employees.

One KV in Tshimalakha, Bhutan, was transferred to the Bhutanese government, thus ceasing to be a Kendriya Vidyalaya (then known as Indo-Bhutan Central School (IBCS)) in 1989, after one of the major Indo-Bhutan projects (The Chukhha Hydal power project) was near completion and Indian government employees were gradually transferring back to their home country.

[edit] Lessons against corruption and terrorism

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan has directed all the 931 Kendriya Vidyalayas in 18 districts across the country to introduce the Integrity Club, which was first introduced on a pilot basis in New Delhi in October 2008. Some values highlighted are love, compassion, respect and non-violence.

[edit] See also

• List of Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools
• List of Kendriya Vidyalaya Alumni Associations

[edit] External links

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