Kendriya Vidyalaya wins applause from MPs panel
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 8: A Kendriya Vidyalaya in the heart of the Kerala capital has been hailed by a parliamentary committee as a model for all other schools in the country to follow.
The way the school with 3,650 students is run with the help of 150 teachers “is impressive”, Bharatiya Janata Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu, chairman of the Rajya Sabha Committee on Petitions, wrote in the visitors’ book after his panel inspected the school at Pattom.Dinesh Trivedi, another committee member, wrote that he wished that all schools in the country were like the Pattom Kendriya Vidyalaya.
The 10-member committee comprising three Rajya Sabha members, four officials from the ministry of human resource development, two Central Board of Secondary Education officials and one officer from the National Council for Educational Research and Training inspected the school Thursday.
“We are thrilled with the comments of the members,” school principal Cicy Roy Mathew told IANS.
Established in 1964, the school works in two shifts to accommodate the students. It has an impressive record. In the last academic year (2006-07), out of the 277 students who sat for the Class XII examination, 242 passed with 60 percent and more marks.
In the Class X examination, of the 239 students, 187 came out with 60 percent or more marks.
“We are the only school in India that has 10 students (seven in class XII and three in Class X) on the toppers’ list of the KV Sangathan (Kendriya Vidyalaya Organisation that runs central schools in the country),” Cicy Roy said.
–Indo-Asian News Service — IANS
Courtesy: www.newkerala.com
