Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools

Maharishi Vidya Mandir is a group of CBSE schools founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The group operates school across 118 cities with 1,00,000 students studying in those schools.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,Founder of MVM

Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools
Location
India
Information
School typePrivate
MottoKnowledge is Structured in Consciousness
Established1992 (1992)
ChairmanDr. Girish Chandra Varma [1]
Faculty7,000
Key peopleMaharishi Mahesh Yogi
MascotBanyan Tree
AffiliationsCBSE
Websitemaharishividyamandir.com

Campuses
MCEE school campus at Bhopal

The central offices for MVMs are located on the Maharishi Centre for Educational Excellence (MCEE) campus in Lambakheda, near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.[2] Regional Offices are located in Allahabad, Haridwar, Jabalpur, Kurukhestra, Guwahati, Hyderabad and Bhopal.[2] In 2009, MVMS celebrated its 27th year in operation.[3] The Lucknow campus was founded in 1984.[4]

Bhopal

As of 2000, the school had grown to include 500 to 600 students.[5] Maharishi Vidya Mandir Ratanpur is a senior secondary CBSE affiliated school with hostel facility in Ratanpur, Bhopal, India.[6]

Jabalpur

Being the birthplace of founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Jabalpur is one of the important place concerned with Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools. It has 5 schools located at different places in Jabalpur.[7]

Hyderabad

Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Hyderabad, is situated in the Kondapur area of Hyderabad on seven acres of land.[8] Vasanthy Parasuraman is the principal.[9] She received the CBSE National Award for Teachers in 2010.[10]

Chennai

Maharishi School of Excellence (MSE) Chennai[11] was established in the year 2010. MSE Chennai is located at Thiruverkadu, P.T.C. Colony, Pallavan Nagar area of Chennai in 4.54 acres of land. The school is reported to have vast infrastructure state of the art facilities including Meditation hall, Yoga hall. The Maharishi School of Excellence Chennai is running under the "Maharishi Shiksha Sansthan".[12] It is a part of Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools.[13]

Others
MVM School at Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh

In 2009, a student at the Maharishi Vidya Mandir School of Silpukhuri, Guwahati took first prize at the State Level Science Fair and received the "best state child scientist award".[14] In December, the school celebrated the mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan in conjunction with Abacus, a children's math society. Speakers included, Ranjana Choudhury, retired chairman of the department of mathematics at Handique Girls College and Indira Bordoloi, the director at Handique Girls College.[15] In 2010, an MVMs student received recognition at the Eastern Indian Science Fair at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum in Calcutta for inventing a method of creating low cost candles from Nahar seeds.[14]

The Maharishi Vidya Mandir School located in Hosur was created in June 1983, and began with three teachers and 85 students. It is reported to have grown to 150 teachers and 4,600 students. The campus consists of 60 acres (240,000 m2) near the edge of the town of Hosur. It has 110 classrooms, some laboratories, a library, an audio visual center, and a computer lab with Internet. The school accepts students up to the senior secondary level.[16]

In 2010, the school hosted a presentation by A.S. Pillai, the CEO of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.[17][18]

In 2011, parents of students at the Yamunagar school protested a proposed move to a new school building on a dangerous highway.[19] Also in 2011, teachers from a Maharishi Vidya Mandir School collaborated with teachers from the USA under the Teachers’ Achievement and Excellence Programme of the US State Department and International Research and Exchange.[20]

In February 2012 a class 6 student from Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Chetpet, won the city finale of the HDFC Life Spell Bee, India Spells 2012, a competition jointly held by The Times of India and Horlicks.[21]

Academics

MVMS follows the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) course pattern and the normal curriculum of Hindi/Regional Language/English medium public schools. The academic program also includes the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the study of the Veda and the literature about the Veda.[22]

Extracurricular activities

Extracurricular activities at MVMS include yoga, arts , martial arts and crafts, chess, dance, music, handball, table tennis and creative writing.[23][24][25] In 2009, 36 students from two of MVMs's schools participated in a five-day learning program at the space centers in the cities of Houston and Orlando, USA.[26] In 2010, a cultural centre was inaugurated at the Silpukhuri branch school.[27]

Rankings
  • Ranked 378th out of total 5,595 CBSE Schools in India. [28]

References
  1. "Dr. Girish Chandra Varma Ji Chairman of Maharishi Vidya Mandir". maharishividyamandir.com. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  2. Official MVMS web site Archived 2010-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. The Hindu, December 29, 2009
  4. Official web site for Lucknow campus
  5. K-12 Education web site the-lower-school Archived 2014-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
  6. MVM Ratanpur Hostel Facility Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  7. http://www.jabalpur5.maharishividyamandir.com/index.mvm
  8. MVM Hyderabad Website
  9. MVM Faculty List Archived 2013-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Achievements". Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Hyderabad. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  11. MSE Chennai Homepage
  12. MSE Chennai running under MSS
  13. MSE Chennai
  14. Assam Times, Low Cost Candle, Jayanta Kumar Das, January 23, 2010 Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  15. The Telegraph, Calcutta, December 29, 2009
  16. CBSE Practice and Tests
  17. Central Chronicle, India Would be Superpower by 2010, Pratiska Kshirsagar, January 13, 2010,
  18. The Hindu, DRDO Developing Acoustic Sensor
  19. "Shifting of school protested", Times of India, May 16, 2011
  20. "Programme" The Telegraph, Calcutta India, June 9, 2011, Retrieved March 18, 2012
  21. "TIME 100 Persons Of The CenturyClass six student heads to Mumbai for India Spells 2012". The Times of India. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  22. "Ekikrat web site". Archived from [Ekikrat web site the original] Check |url= value (help) on 14 August 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2009. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. "U-13 cricket" Snippets, The Telegraph, March 2010
  24. "Maharishi Vidya Mandir H.S.S." Young World, The Hindu, December 29, 2009
  25. "Pradhan, Rishideep bag chess title" Assam Tribune Online, May 17, 2011
  26. "Young World, Reaching for the Stars" The Hindu, November 30, 2009
  27. "Safura cultural centre inaugurated" Hindustan Times August 27, 2010
  28. "Maharishi Vidya Mandir 378th best school in India-Silpukhuri Guwahati Dt- Kamrup Assam". bestschool.net.in. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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