Objectives And Feature

" OBJECTIVES" 1. To serve the objectives of excellence coupled with equity and social justice. 2. To promote national integration by providing opportunities to talented children, largely rural, from different part of the country, to live and learn together and develop their full potential. 3. To provide good quality modern education, including a strong component of culture, inculcation of values, awareness of the environment, adventure activities and physical education. 4. To ensure that all students of Navodaya Vidyalaya's attain a reasonable level of competence in three language as envisaged in the Three Language Formula; and 5. To serve, in each district, as focal point for improvement in quality of school education through sharing of experience and facilities.

*Salient Features* " JNVST-Entrance on the basis of Merit" Navodaya Vidyalaya draw their students strength from talented children, selected on the basis of a merit test, called the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test, designed, developed and conducted by NCERT initially and now, by the CBSE. The test is held annually on All India basis and at block and district levels. It is objective, class neutral and is so designed as to ensure that rural children are not at disadvantage.