Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Kanpur (also known as JNV Kanpur or JNVK) is a boarding school, set up in Kanpur, India

India

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, in 1987. It is an autonomous body which works under the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)

Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)

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. The concept of opening a boarding school, called Navodaya Vidyalaya, in every district of India was born as a part of the section 5.15 in New Policy on Education(NPE86). Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Kanpur has a campus of 35 acres, close to national highway (NH-2) (GT Road) near Navodaya Nagar, Sarsaul, Kanpur. It is a fully residential boarding school which provides accommodation to students, faculty and staff.

History

JNV Sarsaul Kanpur Nagar was established in 1987. The school sprawls over 35 acre of land, full of lush green trees. It educates children mainly from a rural background. Affiliated with the CBSE the school imparts education in the streams of Science

Science

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 and Commerce

Commerce

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. The third language of the school is Kannada and migration linkage is with the JNV Bijapur Karnataka

Karnataka

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 state.

Academics

The results of class X and XII examinations of the Vidyalayas have been consistently better than the overall CBSE national averages.

Objectives

• To impart good quality modern education to talented children (selected on the basis of a written merit test) predominantly from rural areas, without regard to their family's socio-economic condition.
• To ensure that all students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas attain a reasonable level of competence in three languages as envisaged in the Three Language Formula.
• To serve, in each district, as focal points for improvements in quality of school education in general through sharing of experiences and facilities.

Infrastructure

The campus is on 35 acre of land, with one boys hostel, one girls hostel, 42 staff apartments, administrative block, academic building, one multipurpose hall and two dining halls where more than 500 students take their breakfast, lunch and dinner, a library with approximately 6500 books and magazines, including magazine and news papers in Hindi

Hindi

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, English

English language

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 and Kannada languages. The Career Corner has books for exams and professional courses.

• There is a Computer
  Computer
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   lab having 25 computers with one server connected with LAN
  Län
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   also including broad band Internet facility.
• There is a playground with a 400 metre 8 lane track, two basketball grounds, one handball ground, five volleyball grounds, two Kho-Kho grounds, two Kabbadi grounds, one football ground, multiple TT tables and a gymnasium.
• Physics
  Physics
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  , Chemistry
  Chemistry
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   and Biology
  Biology
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   laboratories.

External links

• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Sarsaul Kanpur
• Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
• All India Navodaya Alumni Association ( AINAA)
• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
  Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
  Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya known as JNV are Indian schools for talented children and form a part of the system of gifted education. The objectives of the scheme are to provide good quality modern education to the children predominantly from rural areas, without regard to their family's...