Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is an education school located in Lodi Estate, New Delhi, India. The school is named after a leader of the

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, and independent India's first

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and Deputy Prime Minister,

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (; ''Vallabhbhāī Jhāverbhāī Paṭel''; 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950), commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was an Indian independence activist and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime ...

Academics

It is a private school in India that employs

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as a medium of instruction in primary school. Though primarily subjects such as

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and

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are taught in Hindi till class 5th, students are taught ' technical terms' which are the English counterparts of whatever they learnt. Students are provided instruction in four languages. From 1st grade, it is Hindi medium. English is the medium of education from the Class VI onwards. From Class VI, students have to choose between Gujarati,

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, Bengali and

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as their fourth language.

and

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are mandatory until Class VIII. In Class IX, students are asked to choose between

and

Principals

* Raghubhai M. Nayak * Vibha Parthasarathy * Y K Mago (officiating) * Mukesh Shelath * Kusum Lata Warikoo * Vijaya Subramaniam (officiating) * Ms. Anuradha Joshi (2007–present)

Notable alumni

Administration and civil services and diplomatic services

* Achal Kumar Jyoti,

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officer; Former

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, Former Chief Secretary, Commissioner of Education Govt of Gujarat *

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officer; former Revenue Secretary,

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* Late Abhijit Sen,

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and Former Member of the

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* TCA Raghvan, A former

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n diplomat of the

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with considerable experience in South Asia policy issues and considered an expert on

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.From 2013 to 2015 he was the High Commissioner of India to

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. In July 2018 he was appointed Director General of the Indian Council of World Affairs.

Arts and media

* Varun Badola, television actor * Richa Chaddha, Bollywood actress *

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, film actress, director *

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, film director *

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, Bollywood actress * Eeshit Narain, Film Cinematographer *

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, Hollywood and Bollywood actor and producer * Anusha Rizvi, Bollywood film director * Swara Bhaskar, Bollywood Actress *

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, film actor * Pakhi Tyrewala, actress * Sudhir Pandey, veteran TV and film actor Well known for his performances in popular

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serials like Buniyaad * Shrikrishan Sharma, a mastro of slide guitar and

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. He featured in programmes broadcast by

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and on television for over three decades *Aditya Arya, has played a pivotal role in the establishment of India Photo Archive Foundation and the Neel Dongre Awards/Grants for Excellence in Photography, His India Photo Archive Foundation and The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram, has set up Museo Camera, in Gurugram that is dedicated to the art and history of photography.

Literature

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, Writer and Correspondent for The Hindu

Corporate

* S. Ramadorai, CEO,

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and recipient of the

* Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of

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and co-founder of SanDisk

Science and technology

* Kapil Hari Paranjape, Mathematician * Vidyut Mohan, social entrepreneur and Earthshot Prize winner

Academia

* Shalini Randeria, A

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and social anthropologist/sociologist. She was Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, where she was also Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. She holds the Excellence Chair at the

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, where she leads a research group on “soft authoritarianisms" * Mohit Randeria, Professor, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Fellow of the

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, Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. * Shivaji Sondhi, A theoretical physicist who is currently the Wykeham Professor of Physics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford * Sandeep Marwah, media and film production educator. Founder of Marwah Studios

Environmentalism

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, has been a member of Steering Committees of the

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(WCPA) and

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Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP) He has also been a teacher of environment at

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Sports

* Kagayama, Indian Volleyball team * Deep Dasgupta, Indian cricket team * Lt.Col.Rajpal Singh, Indian jud

*

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, Indian cricket team and TV commentator * Murali Kartik, Indian cricket team * Gagan Khoda, Indian cricket team * Vivek Razdan, Indian cricket team * Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricket team * Tejaswin Shankar, Indian Track and field

Law

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, Supreme Court Advocate * Kaushik Moitra, Partner, Bharucha & Partner
Kaushik Moitra

References

External links

* * {{official, http://www.spvdelhi.org
The official alumni network
Private schools in Delhi Educational institutions established in 1957 Memorials to Vallabhbhai Patel 1957 establishments in Delhi