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| | name = Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools
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| | motto = Knowledge is Structured in [[Consciousness]]
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| | location = [[India]]
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| | logo = Maharishi Group of Schools.jpg
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| | schooltype = [[Private school|Private]]
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| | established = {{launch date and age|df=yes|1992}}
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| | chairman = Dr. Girish Chandra Varma <ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Girish Chandra Varma Ji Chairman of Maharishi Vidya Mandir|url=https://maharishividyamandir.com/chairman-desk|access-date=2020-08-06|website=maharishividyamandir.com}}</ref>
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| | faculty = 7,000
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| | mascot = [[Banyan|Banyan Tree]]
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| | affiliations = [[Central Board of Secondary Education|CBSE]]
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| | key_people = [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]]
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| | website = {{URL|https://maharishividyamandir.com/}}
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| Maharishi Vidya Mandir is a group of CBSE schools founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The group operates school across 118 cities with 1,000,000 students studying in those schools.(Maharishi International Residential School, Sripermpdur, Kanchipuram)
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| [[File:Maharishi Huntsville Jan 1978A.JPG|thumb|120px|[[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]],Founder of MVM ]]
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| ==Campuses==
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| [[File:Maharishi Centre for Educational Excellence, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India..jpg|thumb|right|360px|MCEE school campus at Bhopal]] The central offices for MVMs are located on the Maharishi Centre for Educational Excellence (MCEE) campus in [[Lamba Kheda|Lambakheda]], near [[Bhopal]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref name=MVMS>[http://www.maharishividyamandir.com/founder.jsp Official MVMS web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503155643/http://www.maharishividyamandir.com/founder.jsp |date=2010-05-03 }}</ref> Regional Offices are located in [[Allahabad]], Haridwar, [[Jabalpur]], Kurukhestra, [[Guwahati]], [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] and Bhopal.<ref name=MVMS/> In 2009, MVMS celebrated its 27th year in operation.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121108031630/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2009/12/29/stories/2009122950411300.htm The Hindu, 29 December 2009]</ref> The [[Lucknow]] campus was founded in 1984.<ref>[http://www.mvmpslko.com/about-mvm.html Official web site] for Lucknow campus</ref>
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| ===Bhopal===
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| As of 2000, the school had grown to include 500 to 600 students.<ref name="the-lower-school">K-12 Education web site [http://www.homeschoolprogram.net/k-12-education/maharishi-centre-for-educational-excellence-bhopal-featuring the-lower-school] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114192716/http://www.homeschoolprogram.net/k-12-education/maharishi-centre-for-educational-excellence-bhopal-featuring |date=2014-01-14 }}</ref> Maharishi Vidya Mandir Ratanpur is a senior secondary CBSE affiliated school with hostel facility in Ratanpur, Bhopal, India.<ref>[http://www.maharishividyamandir.com/HostelFacility.jsp MVM Ratanpur Hostel Facility] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723023925/http://www.maharishividyamandir.com/HostelFacility.jsp |date=2013-07-23 }}</ref>
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| ===Jabalpur===
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| Being the birthplace of founder [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]] Jabalpur is one of the important place concerned with Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools. It has 5 schools located at different places in [[Jabalpur]].<ref>http://www.jabalpur5.maharishividyamandir.com/index.mvm</ref>
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| ===Hyderabad===
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| Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Hyderabad, is situated in the Kondapur area of Hyderabad on seven acres of land.<ref>[http://hyderabad.maharishividyamandir.com/ MVM Hyderabad Website]</ref> Vasanthy Parasuraman is the principal.<ref>[http://hyderabad.maharishividyamandir.com/faculty_list.html MVM Faculty List] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128222222/http://www.hyderabad.maharishividyamandir.com/faculty_list.html |date=2013-01-28 }}</ref> She received the CBSE National Award for Teachers in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=Achievements|url=http://hyderabad.maharishividyamandir.com/Achievement.mvm|website=Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Hyderabad|accessdate=13 March 2015}}</ref>
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| ===Chennai===
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| Maharishi School of Excellence (MSE) Chennai<ref>[http://msechennai.maharishividyamandir.com/index.mse MSE Chennai Homepage]</ref> was established in the year 2010. MSE Chennai is located at Thiruverkadu, P.T.C. Colony, Pallavan Nagar area of Chennai in 4.54 acres of land. The school is reported to have vast infrastructure state of the art facilities including Meditation hall, Yoga hall. The Maharishi School of Excellence Chennai is running under the "Maharishi Shiksha Sansthan".<ref>[http://www.publicinfopath.com/india/tamil-nadu/18142-maharishi-school-of-excellence/ MSE Chennai running under MSS]</ref> It is a part of Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools.<ref>[http://www.icbse.com/schools/maharishi-school-of-excellence/1930361 MSE Chennai]</ref>
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| == Others ==
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| [[File:View of Maharishi Vidya Mandir,Fatehpur,Uttar Pradesh,212601,May 2012.jpg|thumb|300px|MVM School at Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh]]
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| In 2009, a student at the Maharishi Vidya Mandir School of Silpukhuri, Guwahati took first prize at the State Level Science Fair and received the "best state child scientist award".<ref name="assamtimes.org">[http://www.assamtimes.org/knowledge-development/3684.html Assam Times, Low Cost Candle, Jayanta Kumar Das, 23 January 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727024018/http://www.assamtimes.org/knowledge-development/3684.html |date=27 July 2011 }}</ref> In December, the school celebrated the mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan in conjunction with Abacus, a children's math society. Speakers included, Ranjana Choudhury, retired chairman of the department of mathematics at Handique Girls College and Indira Bordoloi, the director at Handique Girls College.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091229/jsp/northeast/story_11915196.jsp The Telegraph, Calcutta, 29 December 2009]</ref> In 2010, an MVMs student received recognition at the Eastern Indian Science Fair at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum in [[Calcutta]] for inventing a method of creating low cost candles from [[Mesua ferrea|Nahar]] seeds.<ref name="assamtimes.org"/>
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| The Maharishi Vidya Mandir School located in Hosur was created in June 1983, and began with three teachers and 85 students. It is reported to have grown to 150 teachers and 4,600 students. The campus consists of {{convert|60|acre|m2}} near the edge of the town of Hosur. It has 110 classrooms, some laboratories, a library, an audio visual center, and a computer lab with Internet. The school accepts students up to the senior secondary level.<ref>[http://clay6.com/papers/cbse-model-papers.php CBSE Practice and Tests]</ref>
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| In 2010, the school hosted a presentation by A.S. Pillai, the CEO of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.<ref>Central Chronicle, India Would be Superpower by 2010, Pratiska Kshirsagar, 13 January 2010,[http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=24325]{{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091228022202/http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/22/stories/2009122252950300.htm The Hindu, DRDO Developing Acoustic Sensor]</ref>
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| In 2011, parents of students at the Yamunagar school protested a proposed move to a new school building on a dangerous highway.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614052847/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-16/india/29547862_1_parents-protest-school-building-school-management Shifting of school protested]", ''Times of India'', 16 May 2011</ref> Also in 2011, teachers from a Maharishi Vidya Mandir School collaborated with teachers from the USA under the Teachers’ Achievement and Excellence Programme of the US State Department and International Research and Exchange.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110609/jsp/northeast/story_14089433.jsp "Programme"] The Telegraph, Calcutta India, 9 June 2011, Retrieved 18 March 2012</ref>
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| In February 2012 a class 6 student from Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Chetpet, won the city finale of the [[HDFC Life]] Spell Bee, India Spells 2012, a competition jointly held by ''The Times of India'' and [[Horlicks]].<ref>{{cite news|title=TIME 100 Persons Of The CenturyClass six student heads to Mumbai for India Spells 2012|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-27/chennai/31103576_1_competitions-spelling-quizzes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517102637/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-27/chennai/31103576_1_competitions-spelling-quizzes|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 May 2013|accessdate=12 March 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=27 February 2012}}</ref>
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| ==Academics==
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| MVMS follows the [[Central Board of Secondary Education]] (CBSE) course pattern and the normal curriculum of Hindi/Regional Language/English medium public schools. The academic program also includes the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the study of the Veda and the literature about the Veda.<ref name=Ekikrat>{{cite journal|url=[http://ekikrat.in/Maharishi-Vidya-Mandir Ekikrat web site]|title=Ekikrat web site|access-date=2009-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814100250/http://ekikrat.in/Maharishi-Vidya-Mandir|archive-date=2010-08-14|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| ==Extracurricular activities==
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| Extracurricular activities at MVMS include yoga, arts , martial arts and crafts, chess, dance, music, handball, table tennis and creative writing.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100104/jsp/northeast/story_11938160.jsp "U-13 cricket"] Snippets, ''The Telegraph'', March 2010</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121108031658/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2009/12/29/stories/2009122950421300.htm "Maharishi Vidya Mandir H.S.S."] Young World, ''The Hindu'', 29 December 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=may1811/sports05 "Pradhan, Rishideep bag chess title"] Assam Tribune Online, 17 May 2011</ref> In 2009, 36 students from two of MVMs's schools participated in a five-day learning program at the space centers in the cities of [[Space Center Houston|Houston]] and [[Kennedy Space Center|Orlando]], USA.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121108031710/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2009/12/01/stories/2009120150211400.htm "Young World, Reaching for the Stars"] ''The Hindu'', 30 November 2009</ref> In 2010, a cultural centre was inaugurated at the Silpukhuri branch school.<ref>"Safura cultural centre inaugurated" ''Hindustan Times'' 27 August 2010</ref>
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| ==Rankings==
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| * Ranked 378th out of total 5,595 [[Central Board of Secondary Education|CBSE]] Schools in India. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Maharishi Vidya Mandir 378th best school in India-Silpukhuri Guwahati Dt- Kamrup Assam|url=https://bestschool.net.in/maharishi-vidya-mandir/a230020|access-date=2020-08-06|website=bestschool.net.in}}</ref>
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| ==External links==
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| * Official MVM Schools Facebook Page [http://www.facebook.com/maharishividyamandir]
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