GVV at a glance

GVV’s started coming up in the last four years, and to date about 1200 new GVV’s have been set up. In addition, GVV processes have been initiated in another 300 schools that have pre-existed, like the venture schools in Assam. Eight GVV’s have also been set up in Dohad, Gujarat. The other states running GVV’s are UP, MP, and Orissa. GVV’s were opened in Bihar and Jharkhand too, but have been assimilated under the SSA schools there. Initial discussions have already taken place with the National Institute of Open Schooling in order that children in GVV’s get their certification from NIOS, rather than state education departments. This would give further freedom in designing teaching-learning processes, and give a degree of ‘prestige’ to the schools amongst the local community. A heartening feature of the GVV’s is that a majority of children in them are either from the dalit, OBC or minority communities.