25/11/2014
Opening Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in every district of India was born as a part of section 5.15 in New Policy on Education (NPE86).
5.15 [Pace-setting residential schools, Navodaya Vidyalayas, intended to serve this purpose have
been established in most parts of the country on a given pattern, but with full scope for
innovation and experimentation. Their broad aim will continue to be to serve the objective of
excellence coupled with equity and social justice (with reservation for the rural areas, SCs and
STs), to promote national integration by providing opportunities to talented children from
different parts of the country, to live and learn together, to develop their full potential, and, most
importantly, to become catalysts of a nation-wide programme of school improvement.]*
Read full -> NPE86http://www.ncert.nic.in/oth_anoun/npe86.pdf
