The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System, also familiarly known as the D.A.V. Public Schools System is the single largest non-governmental education

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 society

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 in India

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 . It is based on the ideals of the religious and social reformer, Swami Dayanand Saraswati. The DAV system also comprises colleges offering graduate and post-graduate degrees in various areas of study all over India.

Founded in 1886, in Lahore

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 by the efforts of Lala Hansraj, it manages 667 institutions today, 461 of which are high school level institutions, with an annual budget of more than 2 billion rupees. These schools are run by the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College Trust and Management Society, also commonly known as the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Education Society.. It holds the record for producing the largest number of CBSE ( class Xth and XIIth) toppers as a single institution in the last 10 years . Today, institutional records of the 'D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society' are part of the Archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library

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, at Teen Murti House, Delhi.

English

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 is the primary language of instruction, with students also receiving compulsory education in Hindi

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 and Sanskrit

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 or a regional language.

Affiliated Colleges

• DAV Public School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
• DAV Centenary Public School Amlohri, Singrauli(M.P.)
• DAV Public School, Robertsganj (U.P.)
• DAV College, Jalandhar
• DAV College, Hanumangarh
• DAV College, Kanpur
  DAV College, Kanpur
  DAV College in Kanpur, India established 1919 by Lala Diwan Chand is the second oldest college in the city, and counts among its ex-students revolutionaries like Chandra Shekhar Azad and numerous political figures. The college is situated opposite the Green Park cricket stadium. There are about...
  
  
• GAIL D.A.V. Public School, Gail Gaon, Dibiyapur, Auraiya
• DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology (DAVIET)
  DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology (DAVIET)
  DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology is an engineering institute in Jalandhar City, established by the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College Trust and Management Society....
  
  , Jalandhar
• BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar
  BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar
  The BBK DAV College for Women is a college in Amritsar, India.-Academics:The academic year consists of three terms. The first begins in July and ends in September and the second from October to December while the third runs from January to April, for the annual system. For the semester system it...
  
  
• DAV College, Titilagarh
• DAV College, Chandigarh
  DAV College, Chandigarh
  DAV College in Chandigarh, India was established in 1958.College is situated in one of the posh areas of the city and Hotel Mount View is opposite to it. The college is well-known for its cricket facilities and also dance and dramatics....
  
  
• DAV College, Dehradun
• DAV PG College, Azamgarh
• DAV Engineering College, Daltonganj, jharkhand
• DAV College, Hoshiarpur
• SL Bawa DAV College, Batala
• RR Bawa DAV College, Batala
• DAV College, Ajmer
• DAV International, Ahmedabad

Other DAV colleges and schools

• TATA D.A.V. Public School, WBC, Ghatotand,Ramgarh,Jharkhand
• D.A.V Public School, Koylanagar, Dhanbad(Jharkhand)
• D.A.V. Public School,Sec-6, Bahadurgarh, Haryanadavcpsbahadurgarh.com
• DAV Public School Nerul
  DAV Public School Nerul
  Dayanand Anglo Vedic Public School, Nerul is a self funded private school located in Nerul, Navi Mumbai. The School is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education [Affiliation code: 1130067], New Delhi and belongs to the Dayanand Anglo Vedic College Trust & Management Society, which...
  
  
• DLDAV Model School, BN Block, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi http://www.dldavsb.orghttp://www.dldavsbalumni.org
• DAV Public School, Patiala
• DAV kapildev public school,kadru,RANCHI
• DAV Senior Secondary School (Anna Nagar, Chennai
  Chennai
  Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
  
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• DAV Centenary Public School, Model Town-III, Delhi
• VVDAV Public School, Vikas Puri, New Delhi 110018 http://www.vvdav.ac.in/webaura/index.asp
• mn DAV Dental college and Hospital, Tatul, Solan, Himachal Pradesh
• DAV Model School, Gevra, Korba
• DAV Model School, CFRI, Digwadih, Dhanbad, Jharkhand http://www.davmscfri.jhar.in
• D.A.V. High School, Tandur
  D.A.V. High School, Tandur
  Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School is located in Tandur, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is a high school that is part of the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System....
  
  
• DAV Public School, VTPS CAMPUS, Vijayawada
• DAV Public School, VSP TOWN SHIP, JAGGAYYAPETA
• DAV Public School, Sector-14, Faridabad
• DAV Public School, Midnapore, Paschim Midnapore District, West Bengal(An Affiliated High School managed by DAVCMC,NEW DELHI)
• DAV Centenary Public School, Ajmer, Rajasthan
• DAV Institutions, Kolkata
  Kolkata
  Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
  
  , West Bengal
  West Bengal
  West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
  
  
• DAV Public School, Purabsarai Munger, Bihar 811201
• DAV Public School, Ara, Bhojpur (Bihar)
• DAV Public School, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh)
• DAV Public School, KOTA
• DAV College, Bathinda
• DAV Public School, Sector 8, Panchkula (Haryana)
• DAV Public School, Bokaro Steel City
• DAV Model School, Pitampura, Delhi
• DAV Public School, Sector-14, behind chinnaswami basti ,Gurgaon (Haryana)
• DAV Public School, Sector 10-A, Gurgaon (Haryana)
• DAV Public School, Sasaram
• D.A.V A.C.C Public School, Kymore (Madhya Pradesh)
• D.A.V. Centenary Public School, Chander Nager, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
• D.A.V. Public School, Rajender Nager, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
• D.A.V school,hanumangarh
• D.A.V. Public School, Thane
  D.A.V. Public School, Thane
  Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Public School is a private school in Thane, Maharashtra, India. The school was founded in 1995 at Balkum, Thane, but was moved to Tulasidham in 2004. It is one of a number of schools run by the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College Trust and Management Society, and follows the Central...
  
  
• DAV Sr.Sec.School, Abohar
• DAV College, Abohar
• DAV College of Education, Abohar
• DAV Public School, HFC Township Barauni
• DAV BDL Public School, Bhanur
• DAV Public School,Ratwar,BHABUA
• DAV Public School, Pusauli, MOHANIA
• DAV Hr.SEC school,adambakkam,chennai
• DAV Hr.Sec School,Gill Nagar,Chennai
• DAV Matriculation Higher Secondary School,Chennai(Mogappair)
• DAV Sr.Sec School,Gopalapuram,Chennai
  D.A.V. Boys Senior Secondary School
  D.A.V. Boys Senior Secondary School is a secondary school located in Gopalapuram, India. It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. The school is noted for its high results in the CBSE Class 12 Board Exams. The magazines Outlook and Education World rated the school as the best...
  
  
• DAV Public School, Velachery , Chennai
• DAV Public School, Dehradun
• DAV public school Gandhinagar,Ranchi
• D.A.V. Sr. Sec. School,Hamirpur(Himachal Pradesh).
• DAV Public School, Phillaur
• DAV, Durgapur
• BBKDAV College, Amritsar
• DAV College of Education, Amritsar
• DAV Public School, Amritsar
• DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar
• DAV Public School, Airoli
• DAV College, Jalandhar
• Hans Raj Mahila Mahavidyalaya
• DAV Public School, Ludhiana
• Mehar Chand Polytechnique, Jalandhar
• DAV Ayurvedic College, Jalandhar
• Sain Dass School, Jalandhar
• DAV Institute of Management, Faridabad, Haryana (www.davim.ac.in)
• DAV Centenary Public School, Ukkunagaram, Visakhapatnam
• DAV Public School,Sujathanagar, Visakhapatnam
• DAV Public School, Vijayawada, AP
• DAV Safilguda
  DAV Safilguda
  Dayanand Anglo Vedic Public School , Safilguda is a school in Hyderabad, India. It follows the CBSE curriculum. It is situated in Neredmet, Hyderabad and has about 3,200 students.- Academics :...
  
  , Hyderabad
• DAV Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad
• DAV Kukatpally, Hyderabad
• DAV Model School, KTPS Paloncha, Andhra Pradesh
• DAV Public School Kusmunda, Korba
• KB DAV Senior Secondary Public School
  KB DAV Senior Secondary Public School
  KB DAV Senior Secondary Public School is a co-educational secondary school in Chandigarh , India. It is a private school affiliated to India's Central Board of Secondary Education and a member school of the DAV Society, India's largest non-governmental educational body...
  
   Chandigarh
• DAV Public School, Thermal Colony, Panipat
• DAV Centenary Public School, Panipat
• DAV Public School, HEHAL ,RANCHI
• BNS DAV Public School,Giridih(Jharkhand)
• Dr.A.N.K. D.A.V. Public School
  DAV Public School, Rourkela
  DAV Public School also known as Dr. A.N.K. DAV Public School is one of the oldest pre-primary to higher senior secondary school in the steel township of Rourkela.The School was established under pilot project of DAV College Managing Committee,New Delhi in the year of 1966 and is affiliated to...
  
  , Rourkela
• DAV Velankar College, Solapur (A part of Dayanand Institutions, Solapur)
• DAV Public School, Bilaspur(CG)
• DAV Public School, Bacheli (CG)
• DAV Sr.Sec.School, Shahabad (Markanda)
• DAV Public School, Sreshtha Vihar (Delhi)
• DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali
  DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali
  Jawahar Vidya Mandir previously known as DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir is an educational institute in Jharkhand located at Shyamali Colony, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.The school features education from the Prep to the Senior Secondary levels...
  
  
• DAV Public School, Gaya
• DAV Public School, Rotary Campus (Gaya)
• DAV Public School, BSEB Colony, New Punaichak, (Patna)
• DAV Public School, WALMI (Patna)
• DAV Public School, Khagaul (Patna)
• KL Arya DAV Public School, Hisar (Harayana)
• DAV Public School, CDA, Bidanasi, Cuttack
• Hans Raj Model School Hans Raj Model School
  Hans Raj Model School
  Hans Raj Model School is a school in Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, India, which was started in 1966 with Mr. T. R. Gupta as the Principal. It is based on the ideals of the DAV movement whose creed and guiding spirit are the words of Maharishi Swami Dayanand....
  
  
• Kulachi Hansraj Model School
  Kulachi Hansraj Model School
  Kulachi Hansraj Model School, India, was established in 1972 by the late Shri Darbari Lal. It is a D.A.V. school which educates students from kindergarten to senior secondary school grades....
  
  
• Dhirubhai Ambani DAV School, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai
• D.A.V. Public School, Unit-8, Bhubaneswar
• D.A.V Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar
• D.A.V. Public School, Pokhariput, Bhubaneswar
• D.A.V. Public School, Berhampur
• D.A.V. Centenary Public School, Ukkunagaram, Visakhapatnam
• D.A.V.Public School, sujathanagar,Visakhapatnam
• D.A.V. Public School, Canary Hill, Hazaribag, Jharkhand.
• Atreyee D. A. V. Public School, Balurghat
• H.M.D.A.V. Sr. Sec. School, Daryaganj, Delhi
• D.A.V. Public School,Barkakana,Hazaribagh(Jharkhand)
• D.A.V. Public School, Daltonganj, Jharkhand
• Adani D.A.V. Public School, Mundra, Gujarat
• D.A.V. Public School, Kathara, Jharkhand
• Dr D.R.Bhalla D.A.V. Centenary Public School, Batala, Punjab
• D.A.V. Centenary Public School, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
  Himachal Pradesh
  Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
  
  
• D.A.V. Model School, Durg (Chhattisgarh)
• D.A.V. Public School, Hudco, Bhilai District DURG (CG)
• D.A.V. Public School, Vasant Kunj
• D.A.V. Public School, Bikram Ganj,Bihar
• S.R.D.A.V. Public School, Dayanand Vihar, Delhi
• Agrasen D.A.V. Public School, Ramgarh, Jharkhand
• D.A.V. Public School, Rajrappa Project CCL, Ramgarh, Jharkhand
• CCL, D.A.V Public School, Beniyadih, Giridih, Jharkhand
• DAV Public School Kansbahal
• DAV INternational School, Ahmedabad
• DAV High school tandur,andharapradesh
• DAV High School Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh
• MBDAV Public School, Lohardaga, Jharkhand

DAV Colleges outside India

• DAV Girls College, Suva Fiji
• DAV College, Ba, Fiji
• DAV College, Port-Louis, Mauritius
• DAV College, Morcellement Saint André, Mauritius
• DAV College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

External links

• Official Website of DAV Public School, Pushpanjali Enclave, Delhi
• Official website of DAV College Managing Committee
• http://www.dldavsbalumni.org Official Alumni website of DLDAV Model School, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi
• http://www.dldavsb.org Official website of DLDAV Model School, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi
• http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=51662890
• website of DAV Model School, CFRI, Digwadih, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
• Official Website of DAV Public School Gevra,Korba
• Official Website of DAV Public School, Sector-14, Gurgaon (Haryana)
• Webpage of D.A.V. Public School,Sector-6,Bahadurgarh(Haryana)
• http://www.davvasantkunj.org