DAV Public School - Nerul

Shri G.P. Chopra enjoys the rare distinction of being a part of Hans Raj College from day of its birth to its golden jubilee celebration.

He began his teaching career as a lecturer in English at his alma mater, Murray College, Sialkot. Even in those days when teaching English alone, he was given honours and post-graduate classes to teach right in the beginning.

In 1948, Shri G.P. Chopra joined Hans Raj College and has since been an integral part of this institution. In 1970, he was elevated as Principal of the College and worked in this capacity till 1985. His tenure as Principal saw the College scale new heights of academic excellence. The College also produced several distinguished sportsmen and artists. Shri G.P. Chopra also worked on an ambitious plan for the expansion of the College. Honours classes were started in Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry. Accordingly, new blocks were added to the College building to house laboratories. New courses in Computer Science and Personnel Management were also introduced. Staff quarters were built on a tract of land lying vacant between the College campus and the Principal’s residence. It was during Shri Chopra’s principal ship that the College really matured.

Shri Chopra’s retirement from Hans Raj College in 1985 heralded the dawn of a new era in his life, for it led to a more productive and effective utilization of his talents and as an educationist and administrative. He was the General Secretary of the DAV College Managing Committee from 1985 to 1992 and its President from 1992 to 1996, with a short gap of about four months. He has now been working as Vice-President as per past practice when a President steps down and proposes the name of another person for President Ship. In the context of DAV institutions, Prof. Veda Vyasa’s tenure may be termed as a phrase of expansion. Shri. Chopra now aims at consolidation. He is also keen that the benefits of public school education percolate to the weaker sections of the society. Such children are now getting totally free education. Special handicapped children. Revolutionary and commendable steps indeed!

Indian heritage, rich as it is, has suffered on account of deplorable neglect on the part of short-sighted politicians and bureaucrats. It has been Shri Chopra’s constant Endeavour to preserve and popularize it.

Shri Chopra has also been regularly delivering lectures on Swami Dayanand, Arya Samaj and the DAV movement in order to create awakening among the masses. Shri Chopra is a very effective speaker. His speeches are dotted with literary and mythological allusions and are enlivened by suitable anecdotes. His diction is chaste, his phrases chiselled, his delivery fluent. Listening to him is a great pleasure indeed.

In this school has done Competitive Exam also

Guidance and Counseling

Education primarily aims at learning life skills, knowing and realizing one’s own innate capabilities and thus empowering oneself, to live fruitfully and purposefully; and also to be helpful in promoting human values for welfare and happiness to all.

Since the learner, here the student is an integral part of the larger whole - the family, the society and the world, all dealings with the student is also an activity that necessarily involves the community. This means, all those who came in contact with the learner, viz; the teachers, the parents and the community are all equal stake-holders in education.

To inculcate values and to build up the necessary skills for the acquisition of right knowledge, it has thus become imperative to sensitize, involve, enlighten, empower and endear all the stake-holders, so that not only the empowering of the learner becomes effective and enriching but also the process becomes purposeful and fulfilling.

Realizing that the parents, the teachers and the community as a whole have thus a mazor role to play in the education of the children, their overall growth and development, and their ultimate identification and integration with society, DAV Public School, Nerul earnestly invites the active participation and involvement of the stakeholders especially, the parents the educationist, social workers and all those who are interested and involved in the healthy development and well being of children through its guidance and counseling centre. Wit a view to further motivate and encourage the friends of learner many theme focused orientation programmes, seminars and other education activities are being initiated by the school.

Library

The library is the nerve centre of any educational complex. Due emphasis is, therefore, laid on encouraging the students to spend all available spare time in the library in addition to the specific hours provided for this purpose in the work schedule. The library is operated on the open access system providing books, journals and magazines on a wide range of subjects, for use by children during library periods.

The library has over 11000 books ranging from fairy tales, encyclopedias, fiction, science, religion, arts, architecture and general knowledge to cookery and health. The library subscribes to newspapers, magazines and journals that provide current information to the children.

Computer Room

DAV School, Nerul aims at training and preparing the students for future challenges. In view of the fast changing socio-cultural context and the growing need for integrating technology, we here offer an intensive computer initiation and training to the learners. Another significant aspect of our computer training is to enable the learners to direct the computer learning towards evolving effective assimilation of knowledge. Through Multimedia and on-line Internet services, the school proposes to offer a vibrant and interesting global educational exposure to the learners