Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya, or Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi or BVB Delhi or Bhavans, is a private senior

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

run by an Indian Educational trust known as the

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational trust. It was founded on 7 November 1938 by Dr K.M Munshi, with the support of Mahatma Gandhi. The trust programmes through its 119 centres in India, 7 centres abroad and 367 constituent instit ...

. It is a co-educational school with a student strength of around 2000 and staff strength of about 500. The school is recognized by the Delhi administration and is permanently affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. It has classes from Nursery To XII and prepares pupils for the All India Senior School Certificate Examination, conducted by CBSE. The school provides instruction in Humanities, Science, Commerce and Fine Arts.

History

Bhavan's Delhi Kendra is one of the first public schools in Delhi.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician, lawyer, Indian independence activist, journalist & scholar who served as the first president of Republic of India from 1950 to 1962. He joined the Indian Nationa ...

, the first President of India, laid its foundation. The school was started in April, 1954. Its management was taken over by the

after the Delhi home of the Bhavan was inaugurated by

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat— * * * * and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20t ...

on 18 May 1957.

Campus

The campus is spread over 4.8 acres. Started with one building, the school now has four buildings in its campus. These are known as - * Mehta Sadan * Hathi Sadan * Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management * Madhav Prasad Priyamvada Birla Sadan The school has over 75 classrooms, two canteens, five computer labs, science labs, an open-air auditorium, basketball courts, volleyball courts, table tennis rooms, and football ground. The first netball court among Delhi schools belongs to BVB Delhi. The School offers a wide array of courses in management, which is governed by a separate entity, but the building, known as Usha & Lakshmi Mittal is located in school premises. It also offers some notable language courses and few tour and travels related diplomas. Also they have a very good faculty in animation related courses.

Notable alumni

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* Dewang Mehta * Ajay Jadeja *

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* B. V. Nagarathna * * *

References

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External links

* http://www.bvbdelhi.org * https://www.bvbmehtavidyalaya.org/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20130811092752/http://www.bhavanites.com/ https://www.bhavans.info 1950 establishments in India Educational institutions established in 1950 High schools and secondary schools in Delhi Buildings and structures in New Delhi Schools affiliated with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Private schools in Delhi