JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA
HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Navodaya Vidyalaya Scheme was started during the year 1985-86 and is managed by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an autonomous organization under the department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development.
As part of the programme of action of the new education policy, 1986, Govt. of India launched the scheme under the pioneer of Shri. Indhra Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India to set up Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in all the districts of the country in order to provide opportunities to the children with special talents to proceed at a faster pace by making quality education available to them irrespective of their capacity to pay for it.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Karaikal was started on 15-12-1986 with 72 students both boys and girls. The school is now functioning in its own site from 1989 onwards at Rayanpalayam.
First Principal : Thiru K.S.
Muniappan
Present Principal : Thiru N. Ramalingam
FUNCTIONS
/ OBJECTIVES
To promote National integration among students through a
policy of migration
To encourage and promote talent predominantly from rural
areas & weaker sections
To provide quality CBSE education for all round
development of the students
To function as pace setter institution in the district and to be resource centre for promotion of excellence