ABOUT NAYODAYA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
Navodaya Vidyalaya system envisages a new style of growth and development aimed at the identification and development of talented, bright and gifted children predominantly from rural areas, and the attempt to provide them with quality education comparable to the best in a residential school system. The Navodaya Vidyalaya scheme is perhaps the first major egalitarian step that has been taken to bring good education to the weakest sections. This was a quest for equality, the best schools for the best children, irrespective of their cultural and social backgrounds.
Besides academic excellence, the system aims at promoting strong component of culture, inculcation of values, awareness of environment, reasonable level of competence in three languages, consistent interaction with the local community and serving the respective districts as focal point for improving the quality of education through sharing of experiences. This system was conceived as an idea, a progressive forward looking concept in the National Policy of Education, 1986.Starting with two experimental schools in 1985-86, It has now grown to 596 schools spread all over the country. What is significant and notable , is in the process of this journey, the objectives were not lost sight of the progress of Navodaya Vidyalaya is marked b an extra ordinary achievement in the quality of education imparted in these schools. This is a unique school system where the traditionally marginalized groups get opportunities for upward mobility through education. First generation learners, children from poor socio economic backgrounds, have actually enriched their lives through education- becoming excellent individuals making a mark in their communities. Girls, form more than 36 percent of the student population and taken together, children of the SC & ST communities comprise over 40 percent of the Navodaya student population . In spite of the diverse socio- economic, educational and cultural background of student, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya have consistently giving excellent academic performance which is comparable to the best school systems in the country through a built in mechanism of self- reliance, self-evaluation, character building and discipline in academic pursuits. Nayodaya Leadership Institute, sec- 25, Chandigarh organizes several training programmes for Principals, Vice Principals ,teaching as well as non teaching support staff of Navodaya from time to time.
NLI CHANDIGARH : MISSION
To achieve ‘ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS’ through effective training and to provide “Self-Development” opportunities to the employees.
To inform the feedback of the participants to the NVS authorities for bringing out required changes, wherever required