Salient Features-

  • Good quality modern education for talented children predominantly from rural areas.
  • Candidates of Rural, at least 75% Urban, utmost 25%.
  • Reservation of seats for students from SC/ST categories in proportion to their population in the district subject to the national minimum.
  • Reservation of seats for girls is 33%.
  • Co-educational and fully residential, up to Class-XII.
  • Location is usually in rural areas.  One the basis of offer of cost free land and rent free temporary buildings by State/UT Governments.
  • Free education including boarding and lodging as well as expenses on Uniforms, Text Books, and Stationery etc.
  • Affiliated to CBSE.
  • Admission in only Class-VI only through objective type test designed and conducted by CBSE in the concerned district.
  • Implementation of Three-Language Formula
  • Regional languages as medium of instruction for first three years.  Hindi/English afterwards.
  • 30% of students in Class-IX from a Vidyalaya located in one linguistic area spend one academic year in a Vidyalaya in a different linguistic region to promote national integration through understanding of the diversity and plurality of country's cultures and people.