Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls School, the first public school in India for girls, today has a formidable reputation. The School is located in the heart of the city of Jaipur in Rajasthan, it attracts pupils from all parts of the country and abroad. Boarding Admission It is affiliated to the CBSE and has a strength of over 3000 girls of which about 350 are resident on campus. The School is managed by the MGD Girls’ School Society which functions through a Board of Governors, headed by Rani Vidya Devi of Jaipur. The aim of the institution is to make its pupils cultured and useful members of society. When they enter the world they should be able to take an active interest in the betterment of their homes and community and when they grow up, they should be able to fit themselves usefully into the world of tomorrow.
Birla Balika Vidyapeeth has its genesis as the Girls boarding school in 1941, a humble philanthropic mission to educate the girls of the freedom fighters. It began with just about 40 students and 5 teachers helmed under the visionary Leadership and acumen of Smt. Deviki Amma. The School had its unique distinction of being a progressive institution of learning, imparting Quality Education steeply rooted in Indian cultural ethos and values with its myriad co-curricular activities viz. NCC Band, Sports, Athletics, Classical Indian Dances, Art, Music, Home Sciences. The School since its inception blazed new trails of excellence in consonance with the changing educational scenario and national aspirations as well.
A mark in the history of Mayo College was the resolution of the General Council and the Board of Governors to start an exclusive, residential school for girls on the 46 acre field, used earlier as the Polo Ground and later as playing ground and a farmland. A landmark development was the Bhoomi Pujan and the foundation stone laying ceremony Boarding Admission on the 1st of August 1987. Construction work started on a war footing and the admission process as well as recruitment of staff began in right earnest. Known today as the Sister School of Mayo College, the school strives to meet the vision envisaged by the founders.
The young people that we are working with today, are a generation of extremely evolved, creative and critical thinkers, who need to be challenged constantly, every minute, every time. The innovations and inventions that have taken place in the past decade spearheaded mostly by the twenties something people, bear testimony to this. The educators and the education system today, is stuck in a time-warp and has not been upgraded enough to provide the stimulation needed to whet the kind of latent talent available in every classroom.
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