Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an India educational trust. It was founded on 7 November 1938 by Dr. K. M. Munshi, with the support of Mahatma Gandhi. The trust programmes through its 119 centres in India, 7 centres abroad and 367 constituent institutions, cover "all aspects of life from the cradle to the grave and beyond – it fills a growing vacuum in modern life", as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru observed when he first visited the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1950.
Organisation
The trust operates a number of primary and secondary institutes in India and abroad. It organizes and runs 100 private schools in India. The schools are known as Bharatiya Vidya Mandir, Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, or Bhavan's Vidyalaya.The Bhavan significantly grew as a cultural organization and became a global foundation under the leadership of Sundaram Ramakrishnan who took over as the director after the death of Munshi in 1971. The first foreign centre was opened in London in 1972.
Constitution
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's is "Let noble thoughts come to us from every side", a quote from the Rigveda. The of the Bhavan lays down the qualities that everyone connected with the Bhavan should develop for the Bhavan's and sustained growth. They are:- An understanding of the aims of the Bhavan and a sense of identification with them, expressed in continuous efforts to realise them in every field of activity.
- A spirit of dedication to the Bhavan which will prompt everyone to ask, not "what can I get from the Bhavan?" but "what can I do for the Bhavan?"
- A faith in the culture of our land, particularly in the Epics and in the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.
- The habit of daily prayer, in private and in congregation and the practice of invoking the grace of God before any work is begun and to so do it that it is fit to be offered to Him.
- A passion for the Sanskrit language, to study it oneself and to popularize it among others.
- The development of a healthy mind that is neither by custom nor capering at the call of every fancy, but which is rooted in the past, draws from the elements in the present and strives for a more radiant future.
Board members
Some of the honorary members on the Board include the Dalai Lama, Prince Charles, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, JRD Tata and Mother Teresa, among others.
List of institutions
Schools
; Andhra Pradesh- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's International Residential Public School – Vidyashram – Bhimavaram
- Bhavan's Vidyashram – Guntur
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School,Vidyapuri-Palakol
- Bhavan's Varalakshmi Vidyashram – Rajam
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public school, Visakha kendra
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya
- Bhavan's Sawan Public School
- Bhavan's Seth RA College of Arts/Commerce,Ahmedabad
- Bhavan's Seth RA College of Science,Ahmedabad
- Bhavan's HB Institute of Communication and Management,Ahmedabad
- Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Info Tech.,Ahmedabad
- Bhavan's Narmada Vidyalaya – Bharuch
- Bhavan's English Medium School – Dakor
- Bhavan's Nand Vidya Niketan – Hazira
- Bhavan's Shri A.K. Doshi Vidyalaya – Jamnagar
- Bhavan's GIPCL Academy – Surat
- Bhavan Vidyalaya – Panchkula
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan BBMP Public School, Srirampuram, Bengaluru
- Bhavan Bangalore Press School, Chamarajpet, Bengaluru
- Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Kurkunta
- Bhavan's D.G. Broker Vidyalaya – Belgaum
- Bellur Kamalamma Subbananna Vidya Bhavan School – Mysore
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kodagu Vidyalaya, Madikeri
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Eroor
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Irinjalakuda
- Bhavan's Senior Secondary School – Kannur
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Elamakkara
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Girinagar
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Tripunithura
- Bhavan's Adarsha Vidyalaya, Kakkanad
- Bhavan's Munshi Vidyashram – Tripunithura
- Bhavan's Bala Mandir – Kochi
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Kodungallur
- Bhavan's Bala Mandir – Chalappuram, Kozhikode
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Chevayur, Kozhikode
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Perumthiruthi, Kozhikode
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Koyilandy
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Palakkad
- Bhavan's Bala Mandir – Palakkad
- Bhavan's Vikas Vidyalaya – Malappuram
- Bhavan's Vidyashram – Malappuram
- Bhavan's Bala Mandir and Vidya Mandir – Taliparamba
- Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Thirunavaya
- Bhavan's Jawaharlal Bala Vihar Nursery School – Thirunavaya
- Bhavan's Kulapati K.M. Munshi Memorial Vidya Mandir – Thiruvananthapuram
- Bhavan's Vivekananda Vidya Mandir – Thiruvananthapuram
- Bhavan's Senior Secondary School, Kodunganoor
- Bhavan's School – Valanchery
- Bhavan's Bala Vidya Mandir – Wayanad
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Palakkad
- Bhavan's Newsprint Vidyalaya – Kottayam
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir - Kottayam
- Bhavan's Munshi Vidyashram – Tripunithura
- Bhavan's School – Kozhikode
- Kulapati Munshi Bhavan's Vidya Mandir
- Bhavan's Vidya Mandir – Wayanad
- Bhavan's A. H. Wadia High School, Andheri,, Mumbai *
- Pre School – Jalgaon
- Bhavan's Buds Play & Primary School – Kolhapur
- Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Sri Krishna Nagar, Nagpur
- Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Ashti, Nagpur
- Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Civil Lines, Nagpur
- Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Trimurtinagar, Nagpur
- Bhavan's Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Koradi, Nagpur
- Bhavan's CIPL Public School – Nagpur
- Bhavan's Lloyds Vidya Niketan – Wardha
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; Punjab
- Bhavan's Atmakuri Rama Rao School – Hyderabad
- Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Hyderabad
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School – Vidyashram, Hyderabad
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Vidyashram, NIRD, Rajendranagar – Hyderabad
- Bhavan's Public School – Ramachandrapuram, Hyderabad
- Bhavan's Kamala Rani Sanghi Public School – R.R. District
- Bhavan's Sri RamaKrishna Vidyalaya – Sainikpuri
; Uttar Pradesh
- Bhavan's Mehta Bal Vidya Mandir – Allahabad
- Bhavan's Mehta Vidyashram – Bharwari
- Bhavan's Vidyalaya – Lucknow
- Bhavan's Kesari Devi Kanoria Vidya Mandir – Renukoot
- Bhavan's Gangabux Kanoria Vidyamandir – Kolkata
- Bhavan's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Vidyaniketan – Haldia
- Bhavan's Devraj Aggarwal Vidyalaya – Chandigarh
Colleges
- Bhavan's College of Communication And Management -Jaipur
- Bhavan's Sardar Patel College of Engineering – Mumbai
- Bhavan's College, Andheri, Mumbai
- Bhavan's Sri Aurobindo Junior College, Secunderabad
- Bhavan's Sheth Ranchhodlal Acharatlal College of Arts & Commerce, Ahmedabad
- Bhavan's I.L. Pandya Arts, Science & Jashodaben Shah Commerce College, Dakor
- Bhavan's Shri Amrutlal Kalidas Doshi Mahila College, Jamnagar
- Bhavan's Nursery Teachers' Training College, Kochi
- Bhavan's Mehta Mahavidyalaya, Kaushambi
- Bhavan's Tripura College of Teacher Education, Tripura
- Bhavan's Tripura College of Science and Technology, Agartala
Other institutions
- Bhavan Center for Communication and Management - Bhubaneswar
- S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
- MP Birla Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Bhavan's Priyamvada Birla Institute of Management, Mysore
- Film & Television Studies at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi
- Mungalal Goenka Institute of Post-Graduate Studies & Research, Mumbai
- Bharatiya Kala Kendra, Mumbai
- Sant Jnaneshwar Harikatha & Kirtan Mahavidyalaya, Mumbai
- Bharatiya Sangeet and Nartan Shikshapeeth, Mumbai
- Bhavan's Nature & Adventure Centre, Mumbai
- Bhavan's Gandhi Centre of Science and Human Values
- Bhavan's Dharma Seva Pratishtan, Mumbai
- Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education & Information Technology, Amritsar
- Bhavan's P.D Kumar Memorial Gyandeep School, Amritsar
- Bhavan's Muskaan, Amritsar
- Bhavan's Rajaji International Institute of Public Affairs and Administration
- Bhavan's Sarada Devi Hospital Sainikpuri
- Bhavan's Usha and Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management, New Delhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru Academy of Foreign Languages, Delhi
- Lilavati Munshi Catering Institute, Delhi
- Institute of Astrology, Delhi
- Bhavan's Atmakuri Rama Rao School,Hyderabad
- Institute of Yoga, Delhi
- Bhavan's Institute of Management Science, Kolkata
- Bhavan's Centre for Communication & Management, Bhubaneshwar
- Shri C.T. Sutaria Industrial Training Institute, Dakor
- Shri Swaminarayan Technical Institute
- Trivedi K.M. Mahila Technical Institute
- Bhavan's Farm, Dakor
- Bhavan's Day Care Centre, Kochi
- Bhavan's Special Education Centre, Kochi
- Bhavan's Rehabilitation Centre – 'SUMAN', Kozhikode
- Bhavan's Institute of Tribal Welfare and Development of Tribal Culture, Agartala
- Bhavan's Tripura Study Circle, Agartala
- Bhavan's Institute of Astrology, Allahabad
- Bhavan's Sangeet Shikshapith, Aurangabad
- Institute of Vocational Studies, Aurangabad
- Bhavan's Girls Polytechnic, Aurangabad
- Computer Institute, Pune
- International Institute of Information Technology, Pune
- Bharatiya Sangeet and Nritya Kala Kendra, Pune
- Personality Development Unit, Pune
- Paranjape Pre-Primary Teachers' Training College, Pune
- Bhavan's School of Visual and Performing Arts, Bangalore
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Institutions outside India
- Indian Educational School, Kuwait
- Smart Indian School, Kuwait
- Private International School Abudhabi
- Modern International School
- Bahrain Indian School
- Bhavans Public School-Doha,Qatar.
- Wise Indian Academy Ajman U.A.E