About JNV

Welcome to Navodaya Vidyalaya is a registered Society under Registration of Societies Act, 1860. The Society is an autonomous body under the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resouce Development, Govt. of India, Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development is the Chairman and Hon’ble Minister of State of Human Resource Development (Education) is the Vice-Chairman of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.

JNVs are functioning at the district level through the Vidyalaya Management Committee under the
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an autonomous organization under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education & Literacy, Govt. of India.

As part of the programme of action of the new education policy, 1986, Govt. of India launched the scheme under the pioneer of Shri Rajeev Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India to set up Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in all the districts of the country in order to provide opportunities to the children with special talents to proceed at a faster pace by making quality education available to them irrespective of their capacity to pay for it