Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran

Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran (Indian School Tehran)

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Location
Tehran
Iran
Information
Type Co-educational
Opened 1952
School district Baharestan
Principal P.C Sharma
Grades LKG - XII
Enrollment September onwards
Campus size 5,000sqm
Campus type School
Color(s) Orange, White, Green
Communities served Indian, Bangladeshi, British, Romanian

Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran (Indian School Tehran) Hindi: ('केन्द्रीय विद्यालय संगठन) Persian (مدرسه هندی تهران)' is an Indian co-educational international school in the Baharestan District, Tehran, Iran.[1] Affiliated with the Embassy of India, it serves grade levels LKG (3 years and up) through XII (16 years).[2]

The school has roughly 350 students ranging from three years old to 16 with each class size being approximately 15-20 students. The school's primary taught languages are English, Hindi, and French, Persian is also taught as a means of communications for the students.

The local school hosts children from several countries including the India, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Romania, Thailand Pakistan, and Bangladesh to name a few. Several British children moved to the school when the British Embassy School closed its doors in 2011, after the raiding of the British Embassy Tehran due to the proximity to the British Embassy compound on Ferdowsi Street.

History

KV School Tehran with Indian Ambassador

The original Indian school has been in Iran since the 1930s. It moved to its present location in central Tehran in 1952 and became a Kendriya Vidyalaya in 2004; it currently teaches five languages. On Wednesday, it received a 200,000 rupee boost, the third such grant in the past four years.[3]

The school was originally affiliated first to Panjab University and later to the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

However, following the 1979 revolution, the number of Indian families dwindled to 60-65 and enrollment plummeted. In 2004, the Indian embassy decided to hand it over to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), which has since boosted the number of students of other nationalities, mainly children of diplomats working in the central Tehran.

The school was hit by a financial crisis in 2009-10 and would have gone under but for a Rs.810,000 grant from the External Affairs Ministry, to which visiting Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar added a Rs.200,000 grant in 2011.

“Today, we have 189 students on our rolls from LKG to Class 12. Fifty-one of these are non-Indians. I am happy to tell you that our class 10 and 12 result has been 100 percent in the past two years,” said Mr. Kishore.

The school was visited by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, who agreed to offer funds from the New Delhi government to fund the school.

About Kendriya Vidyalaya

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The Kendriya Vidyalayas are a system of central government schools in India and abroad that have been instituted under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). It comprises over a thousand schools across several continents.

The system came into being in 1963 under the name 'Central Schools'. Later, the name was changed to Kendriya Vidyalaya. All the schools are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Its objective is to educate children of the Indian Defence Services personnel who are often posted to remote locations. With the army starting its own Army Public Schools, the service was extended (but not restricted) to all central government employees.

A uniform curriculum is followed by these schools all over India. By providing a common syllabus and system of education, the Kendriya Vidyalayas are intended to ensure that the children of government employees do not face education disadvantages while their parents are transferred from one location to another. The schools have been operational for over fifty years.[1]

The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, which literally translates to 'Central School Organisation', oversees the functioning of these schools and has its headquarters in New Delhi. The administration of this body is based on levels; the chairman of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan is always the Minister of Human Resource Development of the Government of India, and the deputy chairman is Minister of State of MHRD. The real working power lies with the Commissioner of KVS; there are additional commissioners to accompany Commissioner in the administration of KVS in different fields. The head of a KVS region is Deputy Commissioner accompanied by an Assistant Commissioner. There are individual principals of every KV administering the school.

Features

All the schools share a common syllabus and offer bilingual instruction, in English and Hindi languages. They are co-educational. Sanskrit is taught as a compulsory subject from classes VI to VIII[citation needed] and as an optional subject until class XII. Students in classes VI to VIII could study the German language until November 2014, when the scheme was discontinued. In Moscow, students are given an opportunity to choose French or Russian as their third language.

Tuition fees are charged for boys from class IX onward,[4] and students have to pay the school development fund (Vidyalaya Vikas Nidhi), with the proceeds spent on the development of that particular school. Students from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and children of KVS employees are exempt from tuition fees. Girls who are their parents' only child from class VI onwards are exempt from tuition and school development fund payments.[5] All members of parliament can recommend up to six students from their constituency for admission to a Kendriya Vidyalaya. From the academic session 2016-17, the quota has been increased to 10 students.[6]

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has started seeking quality accreditation for its schools. The Quality Council of India (QCI) has accredited eight schools: KV No. 1 Uppal (Hyderabad), KV AFS Manauri (Allahabad), KV Sector-8 RK Puram (New Delhi), KV Bettiah (West Champaran, Bihar), KV No. 1 (Jammu), KV IIT Powai (Mumbai). KV Ganeshkhind (Pune), and KV No-1 BBSR (Bhubaneswar).[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Contact us" (click button for the section). Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran. Retrieved on June 21, 2016. "LOCATION:KVT is located in the heart of the city, Dirstrict [sic] No. 12, commonly known as: Baharestan" and "OUR ADDRESS: No. 24, Darvish Street, Noor mohammadi Ave, Qayedi (Hedayat) Avenue, Sǎdi Ave, TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of IRAN"
  2. ↑ "Cass strength as on 31-3-2015" [sic]. Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran. Retrieved on June 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ians (2012-08-29). "Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran teaches it all". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
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