Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV) , Gwalior

Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya is an all-girls' residential school - located in Gwalior- a historical city of Madhya Pradesh. About 300 Km south of Delhi, it is well connected with all major cities of the country.
The school was founded by Late Rajmata of Gwalior Srimant Vijaya Raje Scindia in 1956 with a view to educating the girl child in the context of newly independent India. It embodies her dream of providing progressive modern education and equipping young girls to be good citizens. Inaugurated by the then President of India, H E Dr Rajendra Prasad, the school took off on its mission to stay grounded to roots of tradition and to take wing in the exhilarating air of freedom.
The entry level class at SKV is standard VI. In today's competitive world, the need of the hour is to reduce the stress level of the students and at the same time increase their creativity. The school tries to develop in our students the ability to 'create' as against 'copy' by providing an experiential learning curriculum in the formative years. It not only enhances their learning potentials but also brings them to the center stage of learning. It facilitates the students taking charge of their own learning as well as making the content relevant to them.
The school is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education New Delhi. The medium of instruction is English. The subjects taught at +2 level include English, Hindi, Sanskrit, History, Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Painting, Music -Vocal as well as Instrumental, Dance- Kathak and Manipuri style, Psychology, Physical Education, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Bio-Tech, Home Science, C++, Web Page Media, Business Studies, Accountancy, Economics and Entrepreneurship. The school follows a system of CCE - Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation for classes VI - X where student's performance is assessed throughout the academic session on the basis of Formative and Summative assessments.

Vision

"SKV will be a World Class School - a tranquil haven of highest quality education. Driven by honesty, mutual respect, industry and a search for individual identity, all stakeholders will aspire to prepare girl children to become intelligent, sophisticated, compassionate, cultured and discerning young women of substance and integrity. They will be harbingers of positive change in society. World class facilities will be available for the genesis of outstanding achievers, inspired communicators, involved leaders, compassionate citizens and courageous women. The students will be facilitated by sensitive staff who are proficient leaders in their own fields and who freely share of themselves and their knowledge with their students. Being a residential school, a close bond is forged between teacher and taught making both have a justifiable pride in their school."

Mission

"SKV will ensure a safe campus for the physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being of our students. High quality training and orientation programs for faculty will be made available so that the quality of curriculum transaction is enhanced. All effort will be made in the areas of maintaining traditions while encouraging creativity and training in global citizenship and community service".

History

The first President of India, His Excellency Dr. Rajendra Prasad, in the presence of His Highness Maharaja Jiwaji Rao Scindia, Her Highness Maharani Vijaya Raje Scindia and first lady Mrs. Rajvanshi Devi Prasad, officially declared Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya open. The year was 1956. The group photograph taken on this occasion shows about 40 students, including some boys and day scholars, and an impressive strength of about a dozen teachers.The admissions Register lists the two older Scindia Princesses, Padma (Akka) Raje and her younger sister, Usha Raje as the first two students to enroll on 1 August 1956 when classes started, followed by 29 others. Of the total of 31, only six were boarders. Two grand-daughters of President Rajendra Prasad, Shobha and Padma, were also among the earliest students.In 1956 when SKV, as the school is fondly known, was established, premier all-girls' boarding schools were restricted primarily to the convents run by Irish or German nuns.In post-independence India, education for girls entered a new phase. It was to meet this need for an all-rounded Indian education stressing on Indian values, religions and culture, that H H Maharani Vijaya Raje Scindia founded Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya.It automatically became the sister institution to The Scindia School for boys, founded in 1897 by HH Maharaja Madhavrao Jayajirao Scindia in the Fort above the historic city of Gwalior.Her Highness Vijaya Raje Scindia once said, " I felt the Indian woman was drifting away from her valuable heritage. The progress of science along with industrialization it brought, changed the old pattern of family life. Because of economic conditions, Indian women had to come out, (and) also add to the family income. I believe in the old adage, 'the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world'. I wanted a school to strengthen those hands. My dream was to start a school which would serve both these ends"