JNV Mahasamund is a brain child of Dept. of School and Mass Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. It was established in 2000 at the BTI Building Saraipali to impart education to the Rural, talented Students of Mahasamund dist. The permanent building was constructed at Chhindpali, which is 8 km towards east of saraipali town. The School is situated in 26.5 acre land among natural landscape. The hill of Shishupal is towards East Southern direction with its beautiful and lustrous ever green forest. National Highway 53 runs just 400M away from vidyalaya. The distance of JNV Mahasamund is 125 km from District Headquarter Mahasamund, 165 km from Raipur, the state capital of Chhattisgarh and 60 km from Bargarh (Odisha)& the famous historical Laxman Temple is situated at Sirpur which is 100 km from Vidyalaya. The tourist place near by Vidyalaya are Chandrahasini Temple – 67 km from Vidyalaya, Nursinghnath Temple (Odisha Bargarh Dist.) – 70 km, Singhora Temple – 12 km, Patora Dam (Odisha) – 125 km and Hirakund Dam –110 km. At present JNV Mahasamund caters 535 Students along with Science & Commerce streams.

Sirpur Group of Monuments are an archaeological and tourism site containing Buddhist monuments from the 5th to 12th centuries in Mahasamund district of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. Located near an eponymous village, it is 78 kilometres (48 mi) east of Raipur, the capital of the state. The site is spread near the banks of the river Mahanadi.

The town of Sirpur (aka Shirpur) has been mentioned in epigraphic and textual records dated to the 5th to the 8th centuries CE. The city was once the capital of the Sharbhapuriya and Somavamshi kings of Dakshina Kosala state. It was an important Buddhist, Hindu and Jain settlement of the South Kosala kingdom between the 5th and the 12th century CE. It was visited by Hieun Tsang, the 7th century Chinese Buddhist pilgrim. Recent excavations have uncovered 12 Buddhist viharas, 1 Jain vihara, monolithic statues of Buddha and Mahavira, 22 Shiva temples and 5 Vishnu temples, Shakti and Tantric temples, underground granary market and a sixth century bath house.