Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior

Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior is a nationally top-ranked all-girls legacy boarding school offering contemporary education rooted in Indian traditions and values – Autar Nehru Founded in 1956 by Rajmata (Queen mother) Vijaya Raje Scindia (1919-2001) of the princely dynasty which ruled the principality of Gwalior incorporated into the state of Madhya Pradesh in 1956, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV) is a top-ranked girls™ legacy boarding school offering contemporary education rooted in Indian traditions and values to 550 class VI-XII students. In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2014, the CBSE-affiliated SKV is ranked among the country™s Top 3 all-girls boarding schools and #1 in Madhya Pradesh (pop. 73 million). Sixty years ago when girls education was relatively neglected, the Rajmata envisioned an institution which would provide girl children of this country modern education to enable them to develop into leaders who would play an important role in building a strong, independent India. Over the years, we have designed a unique pastoral care programme defined by peer and teacher support groups, and expert counselling care to enable students to discover and develop their latent talents and potential. Our highly-qualified 48 teachers offer individual attention and superior pastoral care to every girl child to ensure their all-round development, empowering and preparing them to assume leadership positions in society, says Nishi Misra, an alumna of Allahabad University who acquired valuable teaching and administrative experience in Nainital’s St. Mary’s, All Saints and Sherwood College and served as headmistress of the top-ranked Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hisar, before being appointed principal of SKV in 2010. A member of the prestigious Indian Public Schools Conference (estb.1973), an association of the country’s top legacy boarding schools, SKV students have consistently topped the all-India CBSE class XII board exams. In the 2014 class XII board exam, SKV girls averaged 87.3 percent with 75 percent of them scoring over 90 percent. The school’s alumni roll includes Madhya Pradesh state cabinet minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Union women and child welfare minister Maneka Gandhi, author Anjana Appachana and Jyotsna Brar, principal of Welham Girls, Dehradun. Sited in the heart of Gwalior on a 35-acre neat, lush green campus which once hosted a forest, and formerly part of the Scindia palace grounds, SKV is managed by the Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya Society presided by Rajmata Madhvi Raje Scindia and other members of the Scindia clan. Its brother school ” the all-boys Scindia School, Gwalior (estb. 1897)” is administered by the Scindia Education Society headed by Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia. A labour of love of the legendary Rajmata, who in a tumultuous 23-year political career transformed into a popular BJP leader, SKV hosts several heritage buildings including Kamla Bhawan, built in 1880 AD as a VVIP lounge with an elaborate ballroom adorned with paintings of the Nandlal Bose school, and Vijaya Bhawan, which boasts a Romanesque Colonnade. A centuries-old banyan tree under which Maharaja Jivarao Scindia and his wife spent many leisure hours studying peacocks ” still popular inhabitants of the campus ” is now…