Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya

Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan was established on September 19th, 2015, as a society under The Society Registration Act of Odisha. Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya was founded by the Department of School and Mass Education, Govt. of Odisha

The General Body is the apex body of the Sangathan headed by Hon’ble Minister, School & Mass Education as Chairman. The Executive Body is headed by DC-cum-ACS as Chairman.

• Setting up of Model Schools – one in every Educationally Backward Blocks.

• Will have an infrastructure & facilities of the same standard as of Kendriya Vidyalayas. New Schools may be established or existing schools may be converted into Model schools.

• Model schools will have adequate ICT infrastructure, Internet connectivity and full time computer teachers.

• Model schools will have appropriate pace setting activities so that schools in the neighbourhood can benefit.

[2][3] These Adarsha Vidyalayas would be CBSE affiliated fully day boarding schools, provide free of education, and target talented students through an annual entrance examination. These would have Class VI through Class XII and each class would have 80 number of students. These schools would be administered through Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan, a society registered under Society Registration Act of Odisha.[4]

• To provide a high quality English Medium School “Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya” in each block headquarter across the State.
• It will have infrastructure and facilities as in a Kendriya Vidyalaya.
• Stipulations on pupil-teacher ratio, ICT usages, holistic educational environment, appropriate curriculum and emphasis on output and outcome.
• Classes will be from VI- XII having 02 Sections in each class.
• Schools will be affiliated to CBSE.
• These schools will be really a centre of excellence.

100 Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas(OAVs) have already started functioning from academic session 2016–17 and 60 more academic session 2017-18.New 30 Schools Opened In 2018-19 And 24 More In 2019-20. As Of Now a total of 214 OAV running in Odisha. Amongst the 100 first phase school Class-XI Science Opened in 30 OAVs and expected to open in rest schools next school. Dr Bijaya Kumar Sahoo has been appointed as Advisor with rank and status of Minister of State by the Odisha Government. He briefed CM the road map for 314 high quality schools[5].