Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated Samvid Gurukulam Girls Sainik School at Vrindavan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh on January 01, 2024.
- This is the first all-girls Sainik School. It has a strength of approx. 870 students.
- The school has been inaugurated under the initiative of establishing 100 new Sainik Schools in partnership mode with NGOs/Private/State Government Schools starting from Class 6th onwards in all State/Union Territories, of which 42 have been set up.
- These are in addition to the existing 33 Sainik Schools already functioning under the erstwhile pattern.
- In 2019, the Ministry of Defence approved admission of girl children to Sainik schools w.e.f. academic session 2021-22 in a phased manner. The decision was taken following the success of the pilot project started by the Ministry of Defence in Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram.
- The central government has cleared the proposal of affiliation of 100 schools, including both private and public, with the Sainik School Society.
- The idea of establishing a chain of Sainik Schools in the country was conceived by the late Shri V.K. Krishna Menon, the then Union Minister of Defence, in the year 1961.
