Development of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Surankote Poonch is On a big horizon moving!
‘Change is the end result of all true learning and education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today!’
‘The idea of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas conceived by former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. The concept of opening a JNV in every district of India was born as a part of the National Policy on Education, 1986 with an aim of providing excellence coupled with social justice. Subsequently, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) was registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.!’
As per the policy of the government, one JNV was to be established in each district of the country. To start with, two Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas were established during 1985–86, at Jhajjar (Haryana) and Amravati (Maharashtra). As of the 2015–16 academic session, JNVs had been sanctioned for 576 districts. In addition, ten JNVs have been sanctioned in districts having a large population of ST population, ten in districts having a large concentration of SC population and two special JNVs in Manipur, bringing the total number of sanctioned JNVs to 598. Out of these 591 JNVs are functional. Surankote was one of them!
-‘In November 2016, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the opening of one JNV in each of the 62 uncovered districts. That will bring the total number of JNVs to 660 once operational.’
-‘The Vidyalaya got its main gate after 22 years of working at a permanent site.The construction work which was also pending since a very long time has now been started by the TCIL agency and very soon Vidyalaya will be able to take admissions of 80 students.
‘Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) is a system of central schools for talented students predominantly from a rural area in India. They are run by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, New Delhi, an autonomous organization under the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education (MoE),[b] Government of India. JNVs are fully residential and co-educational schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, with classes from VI to XII standard.’
-‘JNVs are specifically tasked with finding talented children in rural areas of India and providing them with an education equivalent to the best residential school system, without regard to their families’ socio-economic condition.’
-‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. And this is what Jawahar Narvodya Vidyalayas stresses upon’. In Surankote they are doing exactly the same!
‘Now the Vidyalaya in Surankote has completed the tile work, Net fencing of campus. It is appreciable that recently on 10 Feb 2022 Vidyalaya has demarcated 34 kanal and 18 merla Khasra number 992 of it’s land which was pending since last 22 years and was under the local encroachment.’
-‘Probably this is the best thing that’s happened in Surankote for many years now! Study guys and move ahead. After all, education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.’ The last sentence was said by a geniu with dishevelled hair! Had to be Albert Einstein!’
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you will go’! If learning and being on the move are the humming words that are buzzing and if the administration in District Poonch wants that Jawahar Narvodya school
-‘A huge support from the District Administration and the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti was there for which Vidyalaya staff members will always be in debt. Vidyalaya staff pay gratitude and are thankful from bottom of their heart to Parents association and Dr. S.P Tripathi Principal JNV Poonch!
– DC Poonch Sh. Inderjeet, Chairman VMC, Shreraz Ahmed Tahsildar Surankote,Mohd Afzal, Naiab Tahsildar, SDM Surankote, Patwari and Girdawar, Mukhtar assistant Surankote Forest Department Surankote, Commissioner HQ Noida and DC RO Chandigarh and Assistant Commissioner RO Chandigarh, Municipality Chairman Sh. Mumtaz Bajjar Municipality Surankote and Principal Boy’s Higher Secondary School and also to the Revenue Department Poonch and Surankote and the Police administration Surankote Vidyalaya family have congratulated all the above officers and personnel for their thorough support.’
– ‘The whole list is great but it was Rajeev Gandhi, the former Prime minister, who initiated it!’
-‘He loved education! The computers were brought into India by PM Rajeev Gandhi!’
I will tell you as to what happened after independence as far as education goes! It was all step by step and also stair by stair!
On October 13, 1949, two years after India’s independence (and a few days after the communists had taken over China), Jawaharlal Nehru addressed back-to-back meetings of the House and Senate. Declaring that ‘Nehru puts India on freedom’s side,’ The New York Times noted in a front-page story that “Pandit Nehru expressed pride for India’s past, hope for her future, but acute awareness of her present economic difficulties.’
On June 13, 1985, Rajiv Gandhi, Nehru’s grandson who had won a major electoral victory the previous year, became the first Indian premier to address a joint meeting of Congress. In an above-the-fold story featuring a photo of a smiling Gandhi, Vice President George H.W. Bush and House Speaker Tip O’ Neill, The New York Times particularly remarked on the 40-year-old prime minister’s youthfulness and remarks on Afghanistan.’
On May 18, 1994, a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and after having introduced a wave of economic reforms, P.V. Narasimha Rao addressed Congress. Ten days before that The New York Times featured a story on his finance minister Manmohan Singh and the reforms the two leaders were undertaking. Reflecting the relative disinterest in India in the U.S. at the time, the Times did not, however, cover Rao’s speech.
On September 14, 2000, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s first prime minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) addressed the U.S. Congress. His two years in power till then had seen India conduct nuclear tests, a crisis with Pakistan seen as a turning point in U.S.-India relations because the U.S. called out Pakistan for its actions, and a U.S. presidential visit to India after two decades. A jovial photo of the prime minister and President Clinton made the front page a couple of days later, but the speech itself did not get coverage in the newspaper of record.
On July 19, 2005, Manmohan Singh, who’d just reached a civil nuclear agreement with President Bush, addressed Congress. His visit—and that agreement received front-page coverage, but the speech itself was not covered separately.
Whether to address concerns in Congress, note the similarities between India and the U.S., or stress India’s multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multilingual and multi-religious nature, each prime minister has talked about diversity, equality and freedom.
In their speeches, each of the prime ministers have noted the contributions of the growing numbers of Indian-Americans and non-resident Indians in the United States. Modi has made the diaspora a key focus; expect him to emphasize its role.
A week before his speech to Congress, Vajpayee famously asserted that “India and the USA are natural allies.” He’s not the only one to have noted the “natural” character of the relationship, though there’s been different reasoning behind that assertion or hope. Education wise we should be but are we! The answer has to be with the students of Jawahar Navodaya school Surankote!
