JNV Kottayam
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kottyam is a co educational pace setting residential institution governed by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti,an autonomous body under Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.It is situated at Vadavathoor, in Vijayapuram panchayath of Kottayam District of Kerala State.
Right to Information
NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI
THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT 2005
[Information under Sec.4 (1)(b)]
ORGANIZATION
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) is an Autonomous Organization under theMinistryof Human Resource Development, Department of Secondary & Higher Education,Government of India. It has been set up to establish and manageco-educational, residential schools known as Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNVs) covering VI to XII classes affiliated to CBSE throughout the country. The Samiti has established eight Regional Offices at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Pune and Shillong for the smooth functioning of its Vidyalayas across the country. Apart from this, five Navodaya Leadership Institutes have been established at Goa, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), Chandighar (U.T.) and Ranga Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) for imparting in-service training and professional growth of its staff. As a policy one Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya is to be established in each district of the country. So far 507 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are functional out of 534 JNVs sanctioned in different States/UTs except the State of Tamil Nadu. As many as 48 Districts are still uncovered across the country :-
ORGANOGRAM
The Region wise break-up of functional JNVs is illustrated as under:-
No. of JNVs |
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Sanctioned |
Functional |
Non-functional |
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1. |
Bhopal |
88 |
82 |
6 |
Madhya Pradesh (46), Chatisgarh (12), Orissa (24 |
2. |
Chandigarh |
44 |
44 |
- |
Punjab (17), Himachal Pradesh (12), J&K (14), & Chandigarh U.T. (1) |
3. |
Hyderabad |
70 |
70 |
- |
Andhra Pradesh (22), Karnataka (27), Kerala (14), Pondicherry (4), A&N islands (2) & Lakshadweep (1) |
4. |
Jaipur |
53 |
52 |
1 |
Rajasthan (32), Haryana (18+1), Delhi (2) |
5. |
Lucknow |
82 |
76 |
6 |
Uttar Pradesh (64), Uttaranchal (12 |
6. |
Patna |
69 |
65 |
4 |
Bihar (35), Jharkhand (20), West Bengal (10] |
7. |
Pune |
56 |
54 |
2 |
Maharashtra (31), Gujrat (18), Goa (2), Daman & Diu (2), Dadra & nagar Haveli (1) |
8 |
Shilling |
72 |
64 |
8 |
Meghalaya (7), Manipur (9), Mizoram (2), Arunachal Pradesh (13), Nagaland (6), Tripura (3), Sikkim) (4), Assam (20) |
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total |
534 |
507 |
27 |
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OBJECTIVES
To promote national integration by providing opportunities to talented children, largely rural, form different parts of the country, to live and learn together and development their full potential.
- 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 ensure that all students of Navodaya Vidyalayas attain a
- reasonable level of competence in three languages as envisaged
- in the Three Language Formula; and
- To serve, in each district, as focal points for improvement in
- quality of school education through sharing of experiences
- and facilities.
FUNCTIONS OF THE NVS
The Samiti functions through an Executive Committee under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Minister of HRD. It is responsible for the management of all affairs, funds and has theauthority to exercise all powers of the Samiti. TheExecutive Committee is assisted by two Sub-Committees,Finance Committee and Academic Advisory Committee,in its functions.The executive head of the administrative pyramid is theCommissioner who executes the policies laid down bythe Samiti’s Executive Committee. He/She is assistedat the headquarters level by Joint Commissioners,Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners.For each Vidyalaya there is a Vidyalaya Advisory Committeeand a Vidyalaya Management Committee for the generalsupervision of the Vidyalaya. District Magistrate of theconcerned district is the Chairman of Vidyalaya levelCommittee with local educationists, public representativesand officers from the District as members. The VidyalayaManagement Committee has two sub-committees i.e.Vidyalaya Purchase Advisory Committee and VidyalayaAppointments Committee. Further details are availablein Memorandum of Association, Navodaya VidyalayaScheme, the copies of which are available on facilitationcounter of NVS Headquarters.
DELEGATION OF POWERS
The Commissioner is the Principal Executive Officer of theSamiti who is responsible for the proper administration ofthe affairs of the Samiti and to co-ordinate and exercisegeneral supervision over all educational training, residential, financial and other activities under the direction andguidance of the Society and the Executive Committee.The Commissioner with the concurrence of the Committeedelegates in writing any of his powers and functions to anyother officer or authority appointed or established under therules of the Samiti. Powers delegated to various authoritiesin the Samiti are available at Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti(Hqrs.)
THE NORMS SET BY NVS FOR THE DISCHARGE OF ITSFUNCTION AND DECISION MAKING AT VARIOUS LEVEL
1 |
Headquarter level: |
Chief Functionary – Commissioner, Assisted by General Manager (Construction), Joint Commissioners, Deputy CommissionerS, Assistant Commissioners and Section Officers. |
2 |
Regional level |
Chief Functionary – Deputy Commissioner assisted by Assistant Commissioners, Executive Engineers, Accounts Officers and Section Officers |
3 |
Vidyalaya Level |
Chief Functionary - Principal |
Regulations/ Instructions/ Manuals/ Records held by it or under its control
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti has adopted mutatis mutandis Central GovernmentRules for its employees till formation of its own Rules & Regulations. However,Samiti has framed Recruitment Rules for the appointment of its employees.A set of said Rules is available at the Facilitation Counter in NVS Headquarters.
Statement of categories of documents held by it or under its control:
The following Documents pertaining to Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti dealing withAcademics, Administration, Personnel, Finance, Vigilance are available inNVS (Hqrs). However, Some of the Documents are of confidential andclassified nature pertaining to employees of NVS and therefore cannotbe made available for public circulation. They are: Annual Confidential Reports of NVS (Hqrs.)/ Regional Office Staff up toDy. Commissioner level.. Personal files and Service Books of the employees of the Samiti.
THE CATEGORIES OF THE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE WITH THEOFFICERS OF THE SAMITI ARE AS FOLLOWS:
DESIGNATED OFFICER |
NATURE OF DOCUMENT |
General Manager (Constn.) |
All documents relating to land, buildings, construction activities and allied matters |
Joint Commissioner (Admn.) |
All matters related to Administrative issues and allied matters. |
Joint Commissioner (Pers) |
All matters relating to appointment, Transfers and promotions etc. including service matters of all teaching and non-teaching employees of the Samiti (including staff working at Headquarters and Regional Offices.) |
Joint Commissioner (Acad) |
All matters relating to Academic and allied matters. |
Deputy Commissioner (Admn/ Pers) |
Administration and allied matter |
Deputy Commissioner (Fin.) |
Financial matters including Audit, Budget etc. |
Deputy Commissioner (Acad) |
Academic matters |
Deputy Commissioner (Trg.) |
Training of teachers and staff |
STATEMENT OF BOARDS/ COUNCILS/ COMMITTEES/ OTHER BODIES(HAVING MORE THAN ONE MEMBER)
In order to ensure smooth functioning of Co-educational, Residential JawaharNavodaya Vidyalayas, various committees as mentioned below are constituted: -
HEADQUARTER LEVEL
Samiti (Governing body)
Executive Committee
Academic Advisory Committee
Finance Committee
Construction Co-ordination Committee
REGIONAL OFFICE LEVEL
Regional level Mess Committee
Committee for prevention of gender harassment
VIDYALAYA LEVEL
Vidyalaya Management Committee
Vidyalaya Advisory Committee
Purchase Advisory Committee
Appointment Committee
Parents Teachers Council
Details of composition of above Committees, their powers, functions andpublic representation in each of the Committee are available at the FacilitationCounter in NVS (Hqrs.) for ready reference.
Budget allocation proposed expenditure and disbursement
1.Budget allocation (non-plan & plan separately) for the financial year 2005-06 in respect of field units of NVS 2.Norms for incurring direct expenditure on students every year |
Available on facilitation counter in NVS Hqrs. |
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S. No |
Item |
Rate |
Total |
I |
Mess Expenditure |
Rs.600/-per month per child for 9 months |
Rs.5,400/- |
II |
Uniforms |
)Summer bound areas Rs.900/- per annum |
Rs.900/- |
III |
Text books |
Rs.150/- per student per annum |
Rs.150/- |
IV |
Daily Use Toilet items |
Rs.350/- per student per annum |
Rs.350/- |
V |
Other expenditure on students including Stationery, Travel, Medical, CBSE fees |
Rs.550/- per student per annum |
Rs.550/- |
Total Rs. 7350/-Per student per annum for summer bound areas. |
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3 |
Proposed Expenditure |
Anticipated at BE 2005-06 |
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Disbursements of funds : |
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Manner of Execution of subsidy programme with details of beneficiaries
NIL
Recipients of concession/ permits/ authorization
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti provides free education including boarding, lodging as well as expenses on uniform, textbooks stationery etc. to the students belongs to Sc/ST and girls category. However, children from general category are also provided such facilities but a fee of Rs.200/- per child per month is charged from students of Class IX to XII as Navodaya Vikas Nidhi. The student belonging to SC, ST, Girls, Disabled category and children of the families below poverty line are exempted from the payment of fee.
Reservation for Sc/ST, Girls, Disabled and Rural Children in admission of students at class VI are as follows:
SC 15%, ST 7.5%, Disable Children 3%, Girls 33% Rural 75%
Special concession & incentives for staff posted in North-East region, A&N Islands & Lakshadweep. Details in this regard are readily available at Facilitation Counter in NVS (Hqrs)
