Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Educational Trust

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational trust. It was founded on November 7, 1938 by Dr. K. M. Munshi, with the support of Mahatma Gandhi.^[1] The trust's programmes, through its 119 centres in India, 7 centres abroad and 367 constituent institutions,^[2] cover "all aspects of life from the cradle to the grave and beyond – it fills a growing vacuum in modern life", as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru observed when he first visited the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1950.^[3]

Organisation

The trust operates a number of primary and secondary institutes in India and abroad. It organizes and runs 100 private schools in India.^[4] The schools are known as Bharatiya Vidya Mandir, Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, or Bhavan's Vidyalaya.

Ideals

The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is a totally apolitical organisation.

Constitution

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's motto is "Let noble thoughts come to us from every side", a quote from the Rigveda. The constitution of the Bhavan lays down the qualities that everyone connected with the Bhavan should develop for the Bhavan's consolidation and sustained growth. They are:

• An understanding of the aims of the Bhavan and a sense of identification with them, expressed in continuous efforts to realise them in every field of activity.
• A spirit of dedication to the Bhavan which will prompt everyone to ask, not "what can I get from the Bhavan?" but "what can I do for the Bhavan?"
• A faith in the culture of our land, particularly in the Epics and in the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.
• The habit of daily prayer, in private and in congregation and the practice of invoking the grace of God before any work is begun and to so do it that it is fit to be offered to Him.
• A passion for the Sanskrit language, to study it oneself and to popularize it among others.
• The development of a healthy mind that is neither petrified by custom nor capering at the call of every fancy, but which is rooted in the past, draws sustenance from the ennobling elements in the present and strives for a more radiant future.

Board members

The current President of the Bhavan is Surendralal G Mehta, and the Vice-President is B. N. Srikrishna.^[5]

Some of the honorary members on the Board (past and present) include His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Prince Charles, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, JRD Tata and Mother Teresa, among others.^[5]

List of institutions

Schools

Andhra Pradesh

• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Rajahmundry 'http://www.bvbrjy.in'
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's International Residential Public School – Vidyashram – Bhimavaram
• Bhavan's Vidyashram – Guntur
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School,Vidyapuri-Palakol
• Bhavan's Varalakshmi Vidyashram – Rajam
• Bhavan's Residential Public School – Tadepalligudem
• Bhavan's Sri Venkateshwara Vidyalaya – Tirupati
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public school, Visakha kendra

Chattisgarh

  Bhavan's R. K. Sarda Vidya Mandir,Raipur   

• website:http://www.bvbraipur.org/

Delhi

• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya
• Bhavan's Sawan Public School
• Bhavan's Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management.

Gujarat

• Bhavan's Seth RA College of Arts/Commerce,Ahmedabad
• Bhavan's Seth RA College of Science,Ahmedabad
• Bhavan's HB Institute of Communication and Management,Ahmedabad
• Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Info Tech.,Ahmedabad
• Bhavan's Vallabhram Mehta Public School – Baroda
• Bhavan's Narmada Vidyalaya – Bharuch
• Bhavan's English Medium School – Dakor
• Bhavan's Nand Vidya Niketan – Hazira
• Bhavan's Shri A.K. Doshi Vidyalaya – Jamnagar
• Bhavan's Smt. Maniben Kashibai Patel School – Nadiad
• Bhavan's GIPCL Academy – Surat

Haryana

• Bhavan Vidyalaya – Panchkula

Karnataka

• Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Kurkunta
• Bhavan's D.G. Broker Vidyalaya – Belgaum
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Shivamogga Kendra
• Bellur Kamalamma Subbananna Vidya Bhavan School – Mysore

Kerala

One of the schools in Kerala

• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Eroor
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Puthucode Kendra
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Irinjalakuda
• Bhavan's Senior Secondary School – Kannur
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Elamakkara
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar www.bvm-girinagar.hpage.com
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Tripunithura
• Bhavan's Adarsha Vidyalaya, Kakkanad
• Bhavan's Varuna Vidyalaya – Trikkakara
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Ramanattukara Kendra
• Bhavan's Munshi Vidyashram – Tripunithura
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Ottapalam Kendra
• Bhavan's Bala Mandir – Kochi
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Kodungallur
• Bhavan's Bala Mandir – Chalappuram, Kozhikode
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Chevayur, Kozhikode
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Perumthiruthi, Kozhikode
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Koyilandy
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Palakkad
• Bhavan's Bala Mandir – Palakkad
• Bhavan's Vikas Vidyalaya – Malappuram
• Bhavan's Vidyashram – Malappuram
• Bhavan's Bala Mandir and Vidya Mandir – Taliparamba
• Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Thirunavaya
• Bhavan's Jawaharlal Bala Vihar Nursery School – Thirunavaya
• Bhavan's Kulapati K.M. Munshi Memorial Vidya Mandir – Thiruvananthapuram
• Bhavan's Vivekananda Vidya Mandir – Thiruvananthapuram
• Bhavan's Senior Secondary School, Kodunganoor
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Thrissur
• Bhavan's School – Valanchery
• Bhavan's Bala Vidya Mandir – Wayanad
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Palakkad
• Bhavan's Newsprint Vidyalaya – Kottayam
• Bhavan's Munshi Vidyashram – Tripunithura
• Bhavan's School – Kozhikode
• Bhavan's S. Ramakrishnan Memorial Public School – Thrissur
• Kulapati Munshi Bhavan's Vidya Mandir
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Thrissur
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Wayanad
• Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Pathanamthitta

Madhya Pradesh

• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Prism School – Satna

Maharashtra

• Bhavan's A. H. Wadia High School – Mumbai
• Pre School (Little Buds) – Jalgaon
• Bhavan's Buds Play & Primary School – Kolhapur

• Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Sri Krishna Nagar, Nagpur
• Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Ashti, Nagpur
• Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Civil Lines, Nagpur
• Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Trimurtinagar, Nagpur
• Bhavan's CIPL Public School – Nagpur
• Bhavan's Sulochana Natu Vidya Mandir – Pune
• Bhavan's Lloyds Vidya Niketan – Wardha
• Bhavan's Paranjpe Vidya Mandir – Pune

Orissa

• Bhavan Center for Communication and Management (BCCM)- Bhubaneswar
• http://www.bvbbhubaneswar.org/

Punjab

• Bhavan's Sohan Lal Public School – Amritsar

Rajasthan

• Bhavan's Vidyashram Jaipur Kendra – Jaipur
• Bhavan's Vidyashram Pratapnagar – Jaipur
• Bhavan's Balwadi – Jaipur
• [Bhavan's Kesari Devi Gyan Mandir – Jhunjunu]

Tamil Nadu

• Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram – Chennai
• Bhavan's Matriculation Higher Secondary School – Coimbatore
• Bhavan's Gandhi Vidyashram – Kodaikanal

Telangana

• Bhavan's Atmakuri Rama Rao School – Hyderabad
• Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Hyderabad
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School – Vidyashram, Hyderabad
• Bhavan's Vidyashram – Hyderabad
• Bhavan's Public School – Ramachandrapuram, Hyderabad^[6]
• Bhavan's Kamala Rani Sanghi Public School – R.R. District
• Bhavan's Sri RamaKrishna Vidyalaya – Sainikpuri

Tripura

• Bhavan's Tripura Vidya Mandir – Agartala

Uttar Pradesh

• Bhavan's Mehta Bal Vidya Mandir – Allahabad
• Bhavan's Mehta Vidyashram – Bharwari
• Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Lucknow
• Bhavan's Kesari Devi Kanoria Vidya Mandir – Renukoot

West Bengal

• Bhavan's Gangabux Kanoria Vidyamandir – Kolkata
• Bhavan's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Vidyaniketan – Haldia

Chandigarh (Union Territory)

• Bhavan's Devraj Aggarwal Vidyalaya – Chandigarh

Colleges

• Bhavan's College of Communication And Management -Jaipur (BCCM)
• Bhavan's Sardar Patel College of Engineering – Mumbai (SPCE)
• Bhavan's Royal Institute of Management (Kochi, Kerala)
• Sardar Patel Institute of Technology – Mumbai (SPIT)
• Bhavan's College, Andheri, Mumbai (includes Bhavan's Megji Mathradas College of Arts, Narrondass Manordass Institute of Science and Haji Rashid Jaffer College of Commerce)
• Bhavan's College, Chowpatty – Mumbai (includes Bhavan’s Hazarimal Somani College of Arts & Science, Shri Manubhai Maneklal Sheth Junior College of Arts & Science and Jayaramdas Patel College of Commerce and Management Studies, Mumbai)
• Bhavan's Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Studies, Mumbai
• Bhavan's New Science College, Hyderabad..
• Bhavan's Sri Aurobindo Junior College, Secunderabad
• Bhavan's Vivekananda College of Science, Humanities & Commerce, Secunderabad
• Bhavan's Sheth Ranchhodlal Acharatlal College of Science, Ahmedabad
• Bhavan's Sheth Ranchhodlal Acharatlal College of Arts & Commerce, Ahmedabad
• Bhavan's I.L. Pandya Arts, Science & Jashodaben Shah Commerce College, Dakor
• Bhavan's Shri Amrutlal Kalidas Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar
• Bhavan's Nursery Teachers' Training College, Kochi
• Bhavan's Mehta Mahavidyalaya (V.S. Mehta College of Science), Kaushambi
• Bhavan's Tripura College of Teacher Education, Tripura
• Bhavan's Tripura College of Science and Technology, Agartala

Other institutions

• Bhavan Center for Communication and Management (BCCM)- Bhubaneswar^[7]
• S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
• MP Birla Institute of Management, Bangalore
• Bhavan's Priyamvada Birla Institute of Management, Mysore
• Film & Television Studies at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi^[8]
• Mungalal Goenka Institute of Post-Graduate Studies & Research, Mumbai
• Bharatiya Kala Kendra, Mumbai
• Sant Jnaneshwar Harikatha & Kirtan Mahavidyalaya, Mumbai
• Bharatiya Sangeet and Nartan Shikshapeeth, Mumbai
• Bhavan's Gandhi Centre of Science and Human Values
• Bhavan's Dharma Seva Pratishtan, Mumbai
• Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education & Information Technology, Amritsar^[9]
• Bhavan's P.D Kumar Memorial Gyandeep School (Free Educational Centre for underprivileged children), Amritsar
• Bhavan's Muskaan (A school for mentally challenged, autistic down syndrome children), Amritsar
• Bhavan's Rajaji International Institute of Public Affairs and Administration
• Bhavan's Sarada Devi Hospital Sainikpuri
• Bhavan's Usha and Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management, New Delhi^[10]
• Jawaharlal Nehru Academy of Foreign Languages, Delhi
• Lilavati Munshi Catering Institute, Delhi
• Institute of Astrology, Delhi
• Bhavan's Atmakuri Rama Rao School,Hyderabad
• Institute of Yoga, Delhi
• Bhavan's Institute of Management Science, Kolkata^[11]
• Bhavan's Centre for Communication & Management, Bhubaneshwar^[12]
• Shri C.T. Sutaria Industrial Training Institute, Dakor
• Shri Swaminarayan Technical Institute
• Trivedi K.M. Mahila Technical Institute
• Bhavan's Farm, Dakor
• Bhavan's Day Care Centre, Kochi
• Bhavan's Special Education Centre, Kochi
• Bhavan's Rehabilitation Centre – 'SUMAN', Kozhikode
• Bhavan's Institute of Tribal Welfare and Development of Tribal Culture, Agartala
• Bhavan's Tripura Study Circle, Agartala
• Bhavan's Institute of Astrology, Allahabad
• Bhavan's Sangeet Shikshapith, Aurangabad
• Institute of Vocational Studies, Aurangabad
• Bhavan's Girls Polytechnic, Aurangabad
• Bhavan's Muktangan Exploratory Science Centre, Pune
• Computer Institute, Pune
• International Institute of Information Technology, Pune
• Bharatiya Sangeet and Nritya Kala Kendra, Pune
• Personality Development Unit, Pune
• Paranjape Pre-Primary Teachers' Training College, Pune
• Bhavan's School of Visual and Performing Arts, Bangalore
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Karnataka
• Bhavan's Post-graduate Executive Management Program, Bangalore
• Bhavan's Institute of Management, Mysore
• Bhavan's Savitriamma Akkihal Institute of Management, Dharwad

Institutions outside India

• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute for Indian Art & Culture – London, UK
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Manchester, UK
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute for Indian Art & Culture – New York, USA
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Sydney, Australia
• Indian Educational School – Jleeb, Kuwait
• Private International School Abudhabi
• Modern International School
• Bahrain Indian School^[13]

See also

• Universities and colleges affiliated with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

References

External links

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