GNVS School
Guru The Bombay Municipality, allotted to the Society two plots of land very near the Kolwada Railway Station with two old military barracks, where the venture started on 01.07.1947 with 29 students on roll in Guru Nanak primary School and 60 students in Guru Nanak High School. The land made available, being low lying and marshy and the barracks in almost dilapidated condition the society had to incur a good deal of expenditure in the initial stages to make the said site and the barracks usable for school purposes. At a little later stage another piece of land admeasuring about 16,000 sq. yds. Was acquired from the Municipal Corporation of Bombay to be used as a School playground. Primary schools were opened at Morbaug Road, Dadar and Station Road, Bhandup at the request of Sri. Guru Singh Sabhas of Bombay and Bhandup in January 1950 and January 1951 respectively. Again at the request of Khalsa Sabha, Bombay the Primary School run by the sabha at Mahim was taken over by the Society with the effect from March 1, 1952 with 96 children. Another school was established on 3rd Road at Khar on 01-07-1957. Montessori classes were then gradually added to the above institutions. The society started a high school for girls in the Gurudwara premises at Dadar from June 1958 which was later converted into a co-ed school. All these schools are recognized and aided by the Government and Municipal Educational Authorities and are run on modern lines for the benefit of boys and girls of all castes and creeds.
Nanak Vidyak Society is as old as our freedom. It started working in the field of education in the year 1947. Imbued with such a mission over many years back a band of energetic workers met together on June 22, 1947 in Bombay and a decision was taken to start a school at Koliwada. This decision was in fact long overdue, for the need of a school for Punjabi speaking pupils in the premier city was being persistently felt. Hundreds of Punjabi families add permanently settled in Bombay and made it their home even before the great political upheaval of 1947. The inflow of displaced persons from Punjab , North West Frontier Province and Sind in thousands in 1947 and afterwards made that need more obvious and urgent. The task was formidable and available resources in men and material were quite meagre. The urge however, could not be resisted and thus Guru Nanak Vidyak Society came into existence in July 1947 with S. Pratap Singh as President. Some more public spirited and philanthropic friends rallied round and the Society was under the Societies’ Registration Act XXI of 1860 under No. 1621 of 1947-48.
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GNVS School
Guru The Bombay Municipality, allotted to the Society two plots of land very near the Kolwada Railway Station with two old military barracks, where the venture started on 01.07.1947 with 29 students on roll in Guru Nanak primary School and 60 students in Guru Nanak High School. The land made available, being low lying and marshy and the barracks in almost dilapidated condition the society had to incur a good deal of expenditure in the initial stages to make the said site and the barracks usable for school purposes. At a little later stage another piece of land admeasuring about 16,000 sq. yds. Was acquired from the Municipal Corporation of Bombay to be used as a School playground. Primary schools were opened at Morbaug Road, Dadar and Station Road, Bhandup at the request of Sri. Guru Singh Sabhas of Bombay and Bhandup in January 1950 and January 1951 respectively. Again at the request of Khalsa Sabha, Bombay the Primary School run by the sabha at Mahim was taken over by the Society with the effect from March 1, 1952 with 96 children. Another school was established on 3rd Road at Khar on 01-07-1957. Montessori classes were then gradually added to the above institutions. The society started a high school for girls in the Gurudwara premises at Dadar from June 1958 which was later converted into a co-ed school. All these schools are recognized and aided by the Government and Municipal Educational Authorities and are run on modern lines for the benefit of boys and girls of all castes and creeds. Nanak Vidyak Society is as old as our freedom. It started working in the field of education in the year 1947. Imbued with such a mission over many years back a band of energetic workers met together on June 22, 1947 in Bombay and a decision was taken to start a school at Koliwada. This decision was in fact long overdue, for the need of a school for Punjabi speaking pupils in the premier city was being persistently felt. Hundreds of Punjabi families add permanently settled in Bombay and made it their home even before the great political upheaval of 1947. The inflow of displaced persons from Punjab , North West Frontier Province and Sind in thousands in 1947 and afterwards made that need more obvious and urgent. The task was formidable and available resources in men and material were quite meagre. The urge however, could not be resisted and thus Guru Nanak Vidyak Society came into existence in July 1947 with S. Pratap Singh as President. Some more public spirited and philanthropic friends rallied round and the Society was under the Societies’ Registration Act XXI of 1860 under No. 1621 of 1947-48.
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