PUNE VIDYARTHI GRIHA'S

VIDYA BHAWAN

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The first rays of sunlight shone on PVG’s Vidya Bhawan on 4th March 1977. This was the new brach at Br. Nath Pai Nagar Ghatkopar East.The area was at that time a vast stretvh of marshy lands, far away from vehicular noises of other areas. The site was a perfect serene atmosphere for initiating the teaching learning process for a school.

The vastu pooja of the land was done at the hands of Shri. B. P. Talegiri, architect and engineer of M/s S. H. Godbole firm and in the presence of the life members of the institution, the past students of PVG, donors and well-wishers of Ghatkopar area on 12 June 1977.

Growth of Vidya Bhawan :-

Initially the school started with KG, I and IV standards with few faculty members. Mr Mujumdar, Mr. K. N. Shirkande, Mrs. Taiwade, Mrs Coutinho and Mrs. Subramanium.

The English Medium started with a mere 27 children and 3 teachers under the able leadership of the then Principal Mr. N. S. Mujumdar. Gradually the number of the students and standards increased by the year 1979-1980. The school functioned from Junior K.G. to S.S.C.The first batch of S.S.C. consisting of 14 students appeared for the Board Examination in March1980.Gradually the school developed the three laboratories. The infrastructure of the school steadily developed and in 1988 the school developed the computer laboratory. We can proudly claim that ours is the first school to introduce a subject computer literacy for students and prepare computerized results as early as 1988.

Within ten years the strength of the school increased to 2100 students with a faculty strength of 50 teachers. Now at the end of 35 years we have students strength of more than with about 120 teachers. In the 90’s the school also started Junior College (XI & XII) in the Science Stream

Mrs. Saraswati Ramchandran, our teacher was instrumental in introduction computer literacy for the students of Vidya Bhawan in the year 1988.Thus under the able guidance of our then Principal and now the Chairman Shri K. N. Shirkande the school has made a tremendous progress .And now the school has started the Senior College and the work of its 14 storeyed building construction work is going on war footing.

Year No Of Teachers No Of Students
1977 3 27
1987 50 2100
2002 120 4500
2010 120 4500

The school has a team of a devoted and dedicated qualified teachers.

Student info Is given in a combined table above.

Year No Of Teachers No Of Students
1977 3 27
1987 50 2100
2002 120 4500
2010 120 4500

No. of Student as per the standard

Standard Boys Girls Total
5th 117 76 193
6th 134 78 212
7th 111 90 201
8th 102 81 183
9th 128 74 202
10th 112 79 191
8th D 24 25 49
9th D 33 35 68
10th D 22 23 45

ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY :-

SSC Merit Rankers :-

The SSC examination result was 75% in the year 1979-80. Now the school
brings 100% result.
Year Name of Students Percentage Rank
1988 Miss Buduguru Aparna 92.14 14
1996 Miss. Archana Sridharan Miss Swati Kulkarni Miss Chawla Kothari Miss. Trupti Dhavale 92.26 91.06 90.93 90.93 06 14 16 16
1997 Master. Jatin Asher 89.3 24
2001 Master Nisha Shenoy 91.06 17
Scholarship Merit Rankers :-
 
Year Name of Students
1988 Master Kartik Iyer Master Jayprakash Acharya
1993 Miss Chawla Kothari
1995 Miss Alamelu S. Miss Shruti Patil
1996 Master Abhishek Shirkande Master Sandeep Jayarama
1998 Master Shivkumar Miss Nisha Shenoy Miss Anupama Harolikar Miss Mallika Kulkarni Miss Sheetal Jagtap
1999 Master Vaibhav Kamat Master Dhairya Mehta
2000 Master Karthik Padmanabhan Miss Lakshmi Nayar
2001 Master Mehul Tikekar Master Mukul Tikekar Master Siddesh Subramanian Miss Karishma Kulkarni
2002 Master Rishabh Goyal Miss Ankita Shah
 
High School Scolarship Exam :-

Every year students of VII appear for HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP EXAM conducted by MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT. Many students feature in the MERIT LIST.

Year No. of Student in Merit List
2010 24 Students got MERIT
2009 21 Students got MERIT
2008 18 Students got MERIT

In IPM and IPE and NAVHIND DYANPEETH EXAM for ENGLISH and MATHEMATICS EXAM too many students appear and feature in MERIT LIST every year.

Talent Exam Scholarship Winners :-
 
Year Name of Students Name of Exam
  1. Master Kedar Bhole 2. Master Shivkumar 3. Master Harshad Khadilkar 4. Jainesh Joshi 5. Ashika Shetty National Talent Search Examination
2006 1. SANDHYA GANESH 2. MEHTA NAMAN 3. MEHTA NIMIT 4. RAHIL JADHAV (QUALIFIED THE EXAM) 5. KHATU VIRAJA - SELECTED FOR INTERVIEW MTS(MAHARASHTRA TALENT SCHOLARSHIP) BCTS
2007 1. JAINESH DOSHI 2. SRIKANT CHAVARE 3. ADITYA NEGANDHI 4. SHAH RUSHABH 5. ISHWAR HARIHARAN 6. ABHISHEK HULE 7. JAINESH DOSHI MTS-STATE RANK-30TH MTS –DISTRICT RANK-13TH MTS –DISTRICT RANK-16TH QUALIFIED-IN MTS QUALIFIED-IN MTS QUALIFIED-IN MTS SELECTED FOR NTS(NATIONAL TALENT SCHOLARSHIP )
2008 VAIDYA TEJASHREE & DICHWALKAR SAURABH WON NTS SCHOLARSHIP
2009 SHETTY AASHIKA VASUDEVA WON NTS SCHOLARSHIP
 
Elocution/Quiz Competition (Inter School) :-
 
Year ORGANISED NAME OF STUDENT PRIZE
2010 SANSKRIT BHARATHI AND GHATKOPAR BRAHMAN SAMAJ(SKT ELOCUTION COMPETITION)
JR-SURYAVANSHI PRAYATI
NIKOLE ANUSHKA
SR-KHATU VAIDEHI
RAUT SHRUTI
NAZARE AKSHAY
SHETTY KANIKA
 
PAI ASHWIN WAGLE NEENA
1ST
2ND
1ST
2ND
3RD
3RD
 
CONSOLATION
2007 SEPT SANSKRIT BHARATHI AND GHATKOPAR BRAHMAN SAMAJ(SKT ELOCUTION COMPETITION)
KHATU VIRAJA
SHRADDHA INDORE
SANDHYA GANESH
1ST
2ND
3RD
2007-TEACHERS QUIZ N WARD SCIENCE EXHIBITION-EDU DEPT
MRS VIJAYA GANESH
MRS NALINI NARAYAN
3RD
2006-TEACHERS QUIZ N WARD SCIENCE EXHIBITION-EDU DEPT
MRS UMA GOPALAKRISHNAN
MRS SUBHALAXMI V
1ST
2006 V.K KRISHNA MENON ORATORICAL CONTEST
SANDHYA GANESH
SPECIAL PRIZE FOR HER ORATORICAL SKILLS
2006 FATIMA HIGH SCHOOL-TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN JUBILEE
SANDHYA GANESH
1ST
 
Sports Competitions :-
 
Year ORGANISERS NAME OF THE SPORT EVENT NAME OF STUDENT PRIZE
2010 AUG TAEKWANDO ASSOCIATION OF MAHARASHTRA AND JALGAON DIST TAEKWANDO LANDGE OMKAR GOLD MEDAL AT DISTRICT LEVEL AND BRONZE MEDAL AT STATE LEVEL
2008 INDIAN MARTIAL ART ACADEMY DOJO – KARATE CHAVARE SHRIKANT VITTHAL GOLD MEDAL - KATA EVENT SILVER MEDAL-KUMITE EVENT
2008 DSO (DISTRICT SPORTS ASSOCIATION) WEIGHT LIFTING POWAR NINAD MESHRAM PIYUSH 2ND (BOTH QUALIFIED FOR ZONAL LEVEL) AT RAIGAD
2008 GO SHIN KANGOJURYU KARATE DO TRAINING ASSO KARATE ANSHA SANIL MATHRANI 1st
2008 SHRI PATEDAR YOUTH ORGANISATION MUMBAI CRICKET JR GROUP RUNNER UP TROPHY-UNDER 16 YRS
2007 INTERNATIONAL GO-SOKU KARATE KARATE SUKRUT JAWLE SILVER MEDAL-KUMITE EVENT BRONZE MEDAL-KATA EVENT
2007 DSO- CHESS DOSHI BHAUMIK PATEL KALPESH 3rd 4th
 
Drawing Competitions :-
 
Year ORGANISERS EVENT NAME OF STUDENT PRIZE
2007 ICICI-LOMBARD ROAD SAFETY WEEK DRAWING CUM SLOGAN COMPETITION
KOLEKAR PRATIMA
AMBEKAR SHWETA
PATHARE AISHWARYA
FIRST
SECOND
THIRD
2008 BEST - Greater Mumbai Electric Supply Drawing Anagha Dhawan Consolation a cash prize of Rs 300, certificate at the hands of Mayor Mrs Shubha Raul
 
Homi Bhabha Bal Vaigyanik Competition young scientist award was won by :-
1. Miss Archana Terndulkar 2. Master Shailendra Sonar 3. Master Swapni Kore 4. Master Subramanium 5. In the year 2006 Master Saideep Sudi won GOLD MEDAL 6. In the year 2009 Aashika Shetty won SILVER MEDAL

Headmistress :- Mrs. Sarla Narendran from 2003.

The school runs 14 standards and 71 divisions that is from Junior KG to Junior College.

• The school started with a computer lab with 40 colour monitor computers in the year 1988 due to the generous donation By the State Bank Of India

• The school took over Elizabeth High School which was closed down in the year 1996 due to the foresightedness of Principal K.N. Shirkande.

The students also appear for the examinations in maths, science and languages conducted by IPM and IMS.

 

Nav Hind Vidyapeeth examination and Pravinya Pradnya Examination in mathematics for std.5 and 8 receive tremendous response.

Co-Curricular Activities :-

• Bhagwat Geeta, Shloka, monoacting, music, quiz, drawing, Elocution etc. competitions are held every year. The students have also won many prizes in inter school competitions.

• RSP training is given to students from std. 8th.

• The school has won many prizes at interschool level.

• In the N-ward science exhibition the school won 1st prize for earthquake indicator project in the year 2001-02.

• The school has own Lezhim tournament for 2 consecutive years.

• Exhibition of historical ornaments was held in the school.

SPORTS :-

1. Table Tennis training is given to the students by the experienced coach.

2. The school conducts sports camp in the vacation.

3. Kho-Kho and Kabaddi competitions are held every year. Students bring laurels to the school by winning various inter-club and inter school kho-kho and kabaddi competition.

4. Chess and Swimming are the favourite games of the students and they have fetched many prizes in it.

5. Personality Development camp was a grand success due to the enthusiastic parents and students participation.

It was between the year 1952 and 1958 that Kula guru Annasaheb Ketkar of PVG was elected as a member at Legislative Council from Teachers Constituency. His frequent visits to Mumbai resulted into a desire to start a branch of PVG in Mumbai, the commercial capital. On one of his visits he spoke his mind to the members of past students association of PVG, settled in Mumbai. Accordingly, the past student organization proposed for the existing land at Nath Pai Nagar, Ghatkopar to Shri. Vartak, the then Revenue Minister of Maharashtra. The proposal for this land was immediately approved because it was situated at the fast growing location then. Thus on 4th March 1976 the foundation stone was laid at the hands of Past student of PVG, Honourable Industrialist Shri. Annasaheb Savarkar. Vaastu pooja was done at the hands of Mr. & Mrs. Telegiri, an architect of PVG. Since it was a reclaim land the water from the nearby Nallha use to reach till te school building.

On 13th June 1977, when the school actually started functioning there wqere 5 and 12 students for 5th and 8th standard respectively. The year 1978 saw the opening of 1st standard and pre-primary English and Marathi medium. There were only 23 students in pre primary and 11 students in 1st standard.

Yet the building construction work was not over and thus classes were held in the hall (Appasaheb Gargate Sabhagriha – now) by putting partitions. The construction work didn’t hamper the teaching learning process at all. The school was very keen about discipline. There was a competent staff that took efforts for the physical and the mental development of the children. The school soon gained reputation, the no. of students increased rapidly and there were full fledged classes from 1st to 10th standard in a due course of time. The distinguished feature of the school is that, it is a unique example where both English and Marathi medium schools go hand in hand under the same roof.

Year No Of Staff
1977 4
2010 30

Most of the teaching staff is teaching as well as studying. They also carry out educational activities to give quality education. Teachers have participated in interschool competitions at ward level and won prizes too.Many senior teachers work as the Moderators for SSC Examination.

Mrs. Anuradha Mehendale has bagged best teacher’s award from the State Govt. for the year 2010-11.

Student Information :-
Year No Of Students
1977 17
2010 1026

No. of Student as per the standard

Standard Boys Girls Total
5th 88 75 163
6th 98 81 179
7th 111 68 179
8th 103 77 180
9th 90 79 169
10th 88 46 157
Excellent performance in SSC examination :-
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Year Name of Students Total Percent Merit Rank
1986 Soman Yogesh Sudhakar 92.00 4
1989 Soman Swati Sudhakar 93.00 7
1989 Mane Geetanjali V. 91.57 16th Stood 1st in Backward in state
1989 Kothavade Bhavana A. 76.14 16th
1990 Bhabal Archana Jaywant 91.85 7th
1991 Dixit Nandita Arun 92.88 14th
1993 Kulkarni Ashwin Vijay 91.42 18th
1994 Shah Aniket Bharat 94.71 2nd
1994 Shinde Rahul Arun 93.57 9th And 1st in Backward in Mumbai Division
1994 Shah Ajay Vinod 93.00 13th
1994 More Rupali Shantaram 92.57 16th
2000 Joshi Supriya Satish 91.86 Stood 1st in science subject
2001 Phadke Amey Arun 91.86 11th 1st in social science
2001 Phadke Amey Arun 91.86 11th 1st in social science
2002 Thatte Chinmay Sudhir 92.13 16th
2002 Patil Deepali Sampat 92.00 17th
2003 Vartak Shraddha 94.26 4th
2009 Namrata Vishwas Kelkar 94.46 1st
2010 Gaurang Ashok Chaudhari 96.36 1st
Scholarship Examination :-
Year Name of Students Rank
1988 Hrishikesh Vinay Prasade 1st in Mumbai Division and 4th in Maharashtra
2009 Suraj Sopan Gaikar 68th
2010 Abhishek Rajaram Dhigale 156th
2010 Manasi Pradeep Vichare 876th
2010 Chinmay Arun Mayekar 1061th
2010 Amit Deepak Borhade 1196th
2010 Rushikesh Bhimaji Pingat 1274th
2010 Aishwarya Atul Vaidya 1285th
2010 Priyanka Sanjay Patil 788th
Homi Bhabha young scientist award winners :-

1. Chintan Thatte 2. Amol Rane 3. Sanket Karnik

Students Played at State and National Level :-
Competition Name of Students
Karate Ranade Uma
Swimming Kolapkar Kavita
Rope Mallakhamb Purva Pendse
Tackwondo Gadhave Heramb
Table Tennis Pendse Purva

Headmistress :- Mrs Priya Naik from 2009.
1

The school started with hardly 23 (both English and Marathi medium ) students in 1977 and has continued its quest for excellence till today with 4500 students.

2

The school runs 14 standards and 71 divisions that is from Junior College to Junior College.

3

The first batch of students appeared for SSC examination in the year 1980. The passing percent was 89 and it shot up to hundred percent in few years which became a traditional phenomenon.

4

The school has well equipped laboratories Mrs Pushpa Subramanium donated Rs. one lakh for Physics Laboratory.

5

The school library has more than 5000 books of different types like historical, mythoogical, scientific, story books, novels, magazines, newspapers, reference books etc. Library period is included in the time table of the students.

6

To cater to the needs of the students staying away from the school 9 school buses are arranged to pick up and drop the students to their residence.

7

So far 21 students have appeared in the merit list and 180 students got scholarship in both Marathi and English Medium.

8

NTS is another important examination. It prepares the students for competitive examinations in future. Around hundred students appear every year for this examination and bring laurels to the school.

9

Six and nine standard students appear for Homi Bhabha Young Scientist Sponsor Competition and win gold medals.

10

The school organized science exhibition twice. Chintan Thatte’s project of ‘ the Fastest Train’ was selected for the state level exhibition.

11

11 Students also participate in Elocution and Quiz Competition conducted here.

12

To increase the interest and proficiency in Mathematics, Sambodh, Pravinya and Pradnya Examinations are held in the school where again the students have shown excellent performance.

Co-curricular Activities :-
1

The school has bagged innumerable prizes in dance’ singing, instrumental music and mono acting and entered the district level.

2

Elementary and intermediate examinations are held in the month of September.

3

Following drawing competitions conducted by various organizations also receive great response

4

Sankalp Group,Mumbai Transport Police, Maharashtra Aaikyavardhan, Brihanmumbai Art Teachers, Fire Extinction Service, Kala Darpan (state level)

Sports :-

Various sports competitions are as follows:

Weightlifting, Twaikando, Swimming, Mallakhamb, Badminton, Chess, Table tennis.

A coach trains the table tennis students in the school.

Prizes for chess competitions are given from the interest of Rs. 40,000/- donation, made by late Shri V.M. Marathe, in memory of his father, to promote this game.

Thus the deserving students got 25 marks from the board.