Hansraj Morarji Public School is a combined primary, junior and senior school in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, India

India

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. It was founded in 1939 by the Bai Kabibai and Hansraj Morarji Trust. The foundation stone was laid by the Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Patel

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India...

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Campus

The school campus of around 50 acres (202,000 m²) is located at the foot of Gilbert Hill

Gilbert Hill

Gilbert Hill is a monolith column of black basalt rock in Andheri, in Mumbai, India. The rock has a sheer vertical face and was formed when molten lava was squeezed out of the Earth's clefts during the Mesozoic Era about 65 million years ago. During that era, molten lava had spread around most of...

, near Juhu Beach. It is set up in a huge educational campus set up by Late Shri Kanhaiyalal Munshi. Munshi Nagar now has many educational institutes.The Hansraj Morarji Public School campus includes the main school buildings, one hostel, dispensary, music room, staff quarters, library, theater hall and a science laboratory. The campus has Rajhans Vidyalaya

Rajhans Vidyalaya

Rajhans Vidyalaya is a CBSE Board, private unaided, independent,for profit, day boarding co-educational school located in Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India....

 a CBSE affiliated senior secondary school, and Rajhans Balvatika

Rajhans Balvatika

Rajhans Balvatika or Baikabibai Balvatika is a reputed CBSE preprimary school attached to Rajhans Vidyalaya situated in Andheri West, Mumbai, India. It acts as the feeder school to Rajhans Vidyalaya and Hansraj Morarji Public School....

 the feeder preprimary school for Hansraj and Rajhans. The school has huge cricket ground, basketball courts, football ground, tennis courts and gymnasium.

The Principal is Mrs Anjana Prakash, and the Rector is Mr. B.C.Kumawat. The Supervisor of college is Mr.Radhe Shyam Yadav, and the Supervisor of school is Mrs.Jayshree Desai.

The school started a Junior college in July 2008. The college provides Science and Commerce based streams along with vocational course for Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

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Affiliation

The school prepares students for Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCs) held by the Mumbai Divisional Board of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. Both Gujarati language

Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...

 also french language has been taught,streams and English language streams were available earlier but today the school is a completely English Medium School. Apart from the subjects defined in the curriculum, many other activities like Maths Club, Drama Club, Environment Club etc are a part of the student life.

The Green Brigade Club is the school's Environment Club. Mrs. Satjot Kaur Duggal (a French and Science teacher) founded the club. However she left the school in 2005. Since then the club is led by Mrs. Mitali Mehta (a Mathematics, Science and E.V.S. teacher) in the faculty. The club won the Green School Awards in 1996. The club won the third prize in 2006-07 in an inter-school competition of KP West Ward which included schools from all over the suburb.

Notable alumni

• Amol Gupte, Bollywood
  Bollywood
  Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
  
   screenwriter
  Screenwriter
  Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
  
  
• Shahid Kapoor
  Shahid Kapoor
  Shahid Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He is also a trained dancer.Starting off his career by working in music videos and advertisements, Kapoor made his Bollywood debut as a background dancer in Subhash Ghai's Taal . Four years later, he made his acting debut in Ishq...
  
  , actor
• Harish Bhimani
  Harish Bhimani
  Harish Bhimani is a noted voice-over artist and Master of ceremonies / presenter in India. He is most known as the voice of Samay, the narrator in the TV series, Mahabharat . He is the leading voice in many movies, TV & Radio commercials, Games, music album and documentary voice overs, apart from...
  
  , TV and dubbing artiste
• Viren Shah, Governor of West Bengal and Managing Director, Mukand Iron
• Upendra Patel, Managing Director, Dinesh Silk Mills
• Rahul Vaidya
  Rahul Vaidya
  -Life before fame:The son of an engineer with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Vaidya grew up in Mumbai, where he studied music under Suresh Wadkar and entered various child talent competitions. While he was a Second Year Junior College student in Mithibai College, he participated in Indian...
  
  , singer

External links

• http://www.hansrajeducation.org/Official website
• http://www.rajhansvidyalaya.in/inner.asp