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Balika Vidyapeeth is an English medium residential public school for girls, located in

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. The school was founded in 1941. It started with 25 girls and now has 900 students. It is affiliated with the CBSE. The school band has been a part of the RDC Parade at New Delhi which is led by Mr.Rajumar since India became a republic in 1950.

Memberships

Birla Balika Vidyapeeth is a member school of: * Indian Public Schools' Conference, * United Schools Organisation, * Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan, * National Progressive Schools' Conference.

Activities

Fine Arts Department

The Fine Arts Department trains students in dance,

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and

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Guidance and Counseling

The Counseling Cell has a Psychologist and a Counselor. They solve problems like adjusting to the new environment for new students, coping with studies, personal problems, and developing study habits. Career counseling is provided by counselors from professional agencies.

National Cadet Corps

Each year the school NCC troop goes to an ATC Camp where the students are given training as an army cadet, an adventure camp gives them exposure to adventurous activities like parasailing, mountaineering, bouldering, and rock climbing. The school has two troops under 1 RAJ CTR Jr. wing with 150 cadets and one troop under 1 RAJ CTR Sr. wing with 52 cadets taken care of by three ANOs.

School Band

The NCC Band has participated in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi for the past 78 consecutive years.

Sports and games

* The school has playing fields and a gymnasium. * The students play sports and games like football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, badminton, roller skating, skating, table tennis,

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, and

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. * A

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nasium and a

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

pool are available. *

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is taught by expert coaches. * The school provides

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and

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Alumni

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(Former Lt. Governor Puducherry, Dr. Suneetha Mittal(Director & HOD Fortis Memorial Research Institute Gurugram, Ms. Pawan Surana (Former Head of Rajasthan University Women's Association Jaipur), Dr. Malti Goel (Former Advisor DST & CSIR Emeritus Scientist, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India), Mrs. Kritika Kulhari (IAS), Mrs. Pratiksha Godara (IPS), Mrs. Anita Gopalan (Heim, PEN America Awardee),

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(Bollywood Celebrity),

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(Bollywood Celebrity),

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(Bollywood Celebrity)

Clubs

* Science Club * Eco Club * Mathematics Club * Literary Club (Hindi and English) * Health and Wellness Club * Creativity Club * Social Science Club *. Civil Services Club *. Robotics Club . . . . . . .

SUPW

For Socially Useful Public Work the students have adopted nearby villages and through

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processions A procession is an organized body of people walking in a formal or ceremonial manner. History Processions have in all peoples and at all times been a natural form of public celebration, as forming an orderly and impressive ceremony. Religious ...

, Nukkad Nataks,

posters A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. Typically, posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text ...

and

collages Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an Assemblage (art), assemblage of different forms, thus creat ...

they spread awareness regarding social issues like

dignity of labour The dignity of labour is the philosophy that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior and none of the jobs should be discriminated on any basis. Regardless of whether one's occupation involves physical wor ...

, women empowerment,

youth empowerment Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciou ...

, self employment generation,

female foeticide Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant. The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common where male children are valued over female children, especially in parts of Eas ...

, child labour, and drug abuse.

School websites

bbvpilani.edu.in
* Birla Balika Vidyapeeth reference in India Today list of top 10 boarding schools

References

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