• To cater to the educational needs of the children of transferable Central Government employees including Defence and Para-Military personnel by providing a common programme of education;
• To pursue excellence and set pace in the field of school education;
• To initiate and promote experimentation and innovativeness in education in collaboration with other bodies like the Central Board of Secondary Education and National Council of
• To carry out Educational Research and Training etc.
• To develop the spirit of national integration and create a sense of "Indianness" among children. Memorandum Of Association (Hindi version)
• To Provide, establish, endow, maintain, control & manage schools, hereinafter called the 'Kendriya Vidyalaya' for the children of transferable employees of the Government of India, floating populations & others including those living in remote & undeveloped locations of the country & to do all acts & things necessary for the conducive to the promotions of such schools.

Salient Features

• Common text-books and bilingual medium of instructions for all Kendriya Vidyalayas.
• All Kendriya Vidyalayas are affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education
• All Kendriya Vidyalayas are co-educational, composite schools.
• Sanskrit is taught from class VI - VIII.
• The quality of teaching is kept reasonably high by an appropriate teacher-pupil ratio.
• No tuition fee for boys upto Class VIII, girls upto Class XII and SC/ST students and children of KVS employees.