About JNV Raichur

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kannapurhatti, Raichur (JNVK) is a co-educational residential school near Mudgal,Raichur, India. JNVK is run and financed by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India. JNV Raichur is affiliated to the Central Board for Secondary Education.

The school provides education to the talented children predominantly from rural areas. It functions under a scheme evolved by the government of India under which residential co-educational Navodaya Vidyalayas are being established on an average one in each district.

The classes run from VI to XII standard as per CBSE syllabus. The medium of instruction is English for Social Studies and Humanities, and English for Mathematics and Science.

Navodaya Vidyalaya Scheme

The National Policy on Education-1986 envisaged setting up of residential schools, to be called Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, that would bring out the best of rural talent.

It was felt that children with special talent or aptitude should be provided opportunities to progress at a faster pace by making good quality education available to them irrespective of their capacity to pay for it. Such education would enable students from rural areas to compete with their urban counterparts on an equal footing; seamlessly assimilating and intefrating them into the mainstream of the society.

Objectives of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti

• To establish ,endow, maintain, control,and manage schools(hereinafter called the 'Navodaya Vidyalaya') and to do all acts and things necessary for or conducive to the promotion of such schools which will have the following objectives:
• To provide good quality modern education-including a strong component of culture inculcation of values, awareness of the environment, adventure activities and physical education- to the talented children predominantly from the rural areas without regard to their family's socio-economic condition.