Telangana state Residential School, Sarvail is the first residential school set up by a state government in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. The school was established on 23 November 1971 by the

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

now Telangana state government under supervision of then Chief Minister of the state Shri. P V Narasimha Rao, in the small village Sarvail in

Nalgonda District Nalgonda district is a district in the Telangana state of India. Nalgonda district has the highest number of mandals in the state with 31 mandals. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Rangareddy, Yadadri and Nagarkurnool districts ...

. The same were later on conceived as Navodaya Vidhyalaya when P V Narasimha Rao became Minister for HRD under Rajiv Gandhi government.

History

The former

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, P.V. Narasimha Rao and the benevolence of

Sarvodaya Sarvōdaya ( hi, सर्वोदय '' sarv-'' "all", '' uday'' "rising") is a Sanskrit term which generally means "universal uplift" or "progress of all". The term was used by Mahatma Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin ...

leader, Maddi Narayana Reddy, led to the donation of 44 acres of land for the school. "It was a place for thousands of parents in this economically and educationally backward region to look forward to educating their children," recalls

Chukka Ramaiah Chukka Ramaiah (born 20 November 1925) is an Indian educationist and member of the Telangana Legislative Council. He is famously known as "IIT Ramaiah" for teaching at IIT Study Circle, an IIT JEE coaching centre at Nallakunta, Hyderabad. He was ...

, noted

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and MLC.

Dormitories

*Tagore *maddi narayana reddy *Jcbose *Cvraman *Ramanujam *kcr *Nagarjuna *Netaji *Bhagat singh

Principals

* First principal: Sri. P.V. Adinarayan Sastry 1971–1976. * Second principal: Sri. D. Damodar 1976–1977 * Third principal: Sri. Srinivas Reddy ( 1977-1979) * Sri. V. Raghunatha Chary (1979-1979) * Sri. K. Damodar ( 1979-1981) * Sri. V.V Sathya Narayan Rao (1981-1985) * Sri. M. Sathyanarayana (FAC) (1985-1986) * Sri. Battula Shyam Prasad (1986-1990) * Smt. G. Vijaya Laxmi (1990-1993) * Sri. Venkata Narsaiah (1993–1997) * Sri. C.S.Prasad (1997-1999) * Sri. Prabhakar Reddy (1999-2001) * Sri. P. Dananjaya (2001-2005) * Sri. N. Balabrahma Chary (2005-2012) * Sri Achary (FAC) (2013-2015) * Sri. Upendar Reddy (2015 - 2016) * Sri. KVN Acharya (2016 - 2020) * Sri. G.Anjan Reddy (present)

References

External links

APRSS Alumni Association's website

Article in The Hindu about Ruby Jubilee event
Educational institutions established in 1971 Nalgonda district 1971 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Boarding schools in Telangana {{Telangana-school-stub

History

Dormitories

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