disturbed Navodaya students

Strikes, rioting , suicides and disappearing from school have badly shaken the foundation of the Navodaya Vidyalaya.

Overcrowded Hostels , inadequate number of toilets (not cleaned regularly) and what more, students speak freely of poor food and facilities.

There are 20 to 25 students squeezed in room where only 10 can live.  In food, Worms and pebbles in the rice, poor quality wheat in making chapatis and potatoes is the choosen one through the year. There are two bathrooms and four toilets for 90 students in each hostel.

One of the main objectives of the experiment was to bring in talented youngsters from different parts of the country and allow them to grow up together.

like my childhood, students from the Northeast, were put together with students from Jharkhand and Bihar, found it difficult to adjust and got into trouble more than once.

liewise , students from Jammu and Kashmir, who were put up at Mesra, found it difficult to adjust.

The nine students from J&K left for home last April for the summer vacation but never returned. Is the experiment, therefore, being buried?


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Brip

Village empowerment by JNV

Moulding students towards village empowerment

'Santhasa'- a concept for betterment of rural life from the students, teachers and principal of the JNV is initiated,

150 students team from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Aloka in Yelwal are on an endeavour to spread happiness in villages.

Majority of students in JNV are from rural background. The students are conducting a survey on the status of the villagers and also took illiteracy, AIDS and anti-liquor awareness programmes.

Students says that they informed the villagers about the government schemes available for village hygiene and explained them procedures to get the benefits, many do not have their ration cards. Literacy and sanitation are very important for villages to stride.

Principal of the Vidyalaya said that their team would bring the shortcomings in the village to the Deputy Commissioner.
If the administration along with individual departments extends support, our students would co-ordinate with them to carry out development works in backward villages.



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Brip

Tinsukia - Seven boys missing

Seven boys from Haryana, who came to Assam to study at the Navodaya Vidyalaya are missing since Sunday.

The Class IX students from Karnal, who were studying in the Novadaya Vidyalaya in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on an exchange programme, fled from the school at about 1.00 pm on Sunday.

All boys are aged between 13 and 15 years, ran away when the school authorities and teachers were engaged in conducting an entrance test for fresh batches of students.

They were identified as Sonu Singmar, Birvam Pal, Rajesh Kumar, Ratinder Singh, Karana Singh, Amandip Tast and Amit Pal.

FIR was lodged on Sunday at Doomdooma Police Station, and boys' parents were informed and searches were on in places where they could be staying.

School Principal said the boys had come on an exchange programme according to the norms of the Navodaya Vidyalaya system, whereby students go from one school to another in Class IX for a year.
 
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Brip

Gandey Students on hunger strike

Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Gandey were on 24-hour-long hunger strike.
 
The Union government provides enough funds to provide good food and education to the students of the school.
still all the 427 pupils, including 129 girls, think that food and poor dress are of poor quality, not to end here, some teachers allegedly abused them when they raised their voice, adding more heat, a few teachers described a student "mentally challenged" when he tried to spill the beans in front of former chief minister Babulal Marandi.

"Yesterday, I had tried to appraise Marandi of irregularities when he was here, but my teachers trashed my claims saying I have mental disorder. But I am the class topper," sobbed Ram Naresh Kumar of Class X.

Ansari held four hours of parleys with the students, their parents, teachers and the principal of the school, Dinesh Kumar.
Ansari ordered the principal to suspend the storekeeper, Jai Kumar, for consuming liquor during office hours and seized dud clothes supplied to the centre.

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Brip