The Full Form of JNV is‍ Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) is a system of central schools for talented students predominantly from rural area in India. They are run by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, New Delhi, an autonomous organization under the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. JNVs are fully residential and co-educational schools affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, with classes from VI to XII standard. JNVs are specifically tasked with finding talented children in rural areas of India and providing them with an education equivalent to the best residential school system, without regard to their families’ socio-economic condition.^[2]

The Navodaya Vidyalaya system is a unique experiment unparalleled in the annals of school education in India and elsewhere. Its significance lies in the selection of talented rural children as the target group and the attempt to provide them with quality education comparable to the best in a residential school system. Such children are found in all sections of society, and in all areas including the most backward.

The Budget for Education, Boarding and activities at JNVs are provided by Ministry of Education, Government of India and it’s free of cost for the students during the 7 years of stay.

JNVs exist all over India, with the exception of Tamil Nadu.^[3] There are approximately 661 across India as of 2016-17 academic year. As of 30 September 2019, a total of 636 JNVs are functional in the country with about 2, 65,574 students enrolled, and out of which 2, 06,728 (~78%) are from rural areas. Performance-wise, in 2019, JNVs were the top-ranked C.B.S.E. schools, having a pass percentage of 98.57% and 96.62% in 10th and 12th grades respectively

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs), the residential schools run by the central government, became one of the first such schools to reopen in the country Monday amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, according to the orders from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, these schools have reopened only in states that allowed them to do so.

Apart from Sikkim, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar, and Lakshadweep, no other state or UT has given permission to reopen residential schools so far. 

Even states like Assam and Uttar Pradesh that have permitted reopening of schools have not allowed residential schools to reopen.

According to officials in Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), the body that manages JNVs across the country, Sikkim, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar, and Lakshadweep have permitted reopening of residential schools and, therefore, JNVs reopened only in these states and UTs.

Every state and UT has come up with their own guidelines for reopening of schools. However, some general guidelines issued by the government apply to all the states.