JNVST 2012 RESULT IS DECLARED

JNVST 2012 result was already declared and is available with the Vidyalayas. Result could not be uploaded on Samiti's Website due to relocation of Headquarters. Attempts seem to be underway to put the results on respective RO. websites. Interested parents can call the JNVs and know their results: Phone no's of JNVs can be found here

P.S   Result can now be downloaded from here

Random Selection instead of JNVST 2011?

Umpteen news reports are found across the nation, both in vernacular and national dailies, about the postponement of JNVST and the anxiety of parents. Everybody is worried as many of these parents have invested lot of their energies for getting their children to prepare for JNVST and they are not ready to loose an academic year for the sake of admission in JNVs.  Lack of  reason for the postponement of JNVST  in the public notice issued by Samiti has lent the situation into a kind of mystery. Nothing seems to be moving in the direction of either notification or an amendment for RTE.
Samiti is left with only one option-going ahead with random selection. Recently Welfare School Organizations in Andhra Pradesh have decided to go ahead with the lottery system of selection. District Collectors are assigned the task of supervising such selection. CBSE, the agency which conducts JNVST, has asked the Vidyalayas to clarify anomalies in the list of candidates forwarded by the JNVs. Once the anomalies are corrected, NVS may go for lottery System. If any such decision is taken, NVS faces a gigantic task of managing its public image. Lottery System, which is legal, may not go down well with the parents. Parents,majority of whom are from rural areas, will not understand the nuances of RTE. They may think that the decision is a way of opening back door entry to non-eligible candidates and circumventing merit selection. It would dent the image of Navodayas which was hard earned by NVS with its credible and impartial selection history.

No Clarity on JNVST 2011

It was hoped in my previous post  NO JNVST 2011 that NVS would be able to sort out the complications arising out of Right to Education Act  and JNVST 2011 would be conducted in time. But all such hopes seem to be misplaced.  JNVST 2011 is hardly a month away and still there is no solution in sight.
As per the news paper reports, it is yet to be decided by HRD ministry,whether a notification is enough or an amendment is required. We can't say how and where the idea of notification originated, but it seems to have derailed the whole process of finding a proper solution. We can't understand why Ministry of HRD is shying away from pushing for an amendment.Ministry of HRD seems to be illogically  vary of encouragement  such amendment would provide for  lobbying from vested interests in secondary education for further amendments and it may open a Pandora box. No body can dispute the special nature of Navodayas and Sainik Schools. The decision must be legislative so that the sanctity of JNVST could never be challenged. The amendment would also resolve the dilemma of  state government run welfare school organizations.Hope there would be an amendment for RTE in this budget session paving way for smooth conduct of JNVST.

NCPCR OBJECTS TO JNVST TIME SCHEDULE FOR 2011

As expected in my last post, JNVST 2011 is getting into controversy even before its prospectus is prepared. NVS has come out with a shedule for JNVST 2011 and the same was kept on its website. It also declared the result of JNVST 2010 and going ahead with the admission process. As JNVST 2010 had been conducted before the RTE came into force,this year's admission process may be a smooth affair.

But JNVST 2011 will not be the same.Dr Shantha Sinha, Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights(NCPCR)has written a letter to NVS seeking clarifications. She frowned upon NVS, while speaking to a telugu news agency,for declaring time schedule for JNVST 2011.Even if NVS goes ahead with its admission process for 2011, it may result in legal disputes.

The best way ahead is seeking an amendment for RTE.