JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA LIBRARY

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 socio-economic condition.

They are located all over the country, except Tamil Nadu. There are approximately 593 JNVs across India as of 2010. They offer quality education to all students who get selected through the admission process which includes an All India Entrance Exam, held at district le

History

First established in 1985 at Rohtak, Haryana and Amravati, Maharashtra, they are the brain child of P. V. Narasimha Rao.^[1] They were started during Prime Ministership of Rajiv Gandhi to find and foster talented children from the rural parts of India.^[2] They started with the name Navodaya Vidyalayas and renamed later as Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in the birth-centenary year of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.

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.
• The motto of these schools is come in to learn and go out to serve.