“Education is a process by which a child makes his internal power external.”

TATA DAV Public school, Baneikala, Joda, Dist- Keonjhar-758038, an unsullied rainbow of imagination a pyramid of passionate hopes, a temple of creative feeling came into vigor and vitality with the collaboration of TATA STEEL LTD. On 6^th April- 2012 by following the footprints of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Mahatma Hansraj. Our school is ameliorating by leaps and bounds ever since its inception. It stands in a triangular place of Joda, Barbil and Bileipada.

VISION: Our credo is to provide holistic development of students with fostering character building, nurturing the inquisitive spirit of students, encouraging scientific temperament and strengthening social bonds. Again we try to prepare our students to become self-reliant, productive individuals with clarity, precision and independence. We also want to inspire the children to embrace challenge and find joy and self-worth through achievement.

MISSION: “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history” (Mahatma Gandhi). Our aim is to provide moral direction and stimulus to carve out creative and inspired individuals to dispel the darkness in the world, prepare students self-disciplined, courageous, enthusiastic, building future leaders with a global vision who are socially oriented and value based world citizen to address core issues with kindness, empathy, tolerance, patience, honesty, punctuality, sincerity and above all good human beings.

It is pleasure to convey that the school has its own High tech campus in Joda. The school reassures the holistic development of all its pupils to lift them to greater heights in the field of education.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF SCHOOL:

1. The school prepares students for appearing in secondary school examination.
2. The school provides all the ultramodern facilities to enable the students to learn well and face the challenges of the competitive world.
3. The school inculcates in the students and awareness of their traditionally rich cultural heritage and infuses in them the culture of living in harmony with natural environment.
4. The school arranges outdoor training programmes to generate the confidence and dynamism in the personality of the students to face the challenges of competitive life.
5. The school organizes morning assembly and prayer before conducting the regular classes daily. In its morning assembly, the school imparts news, speech, thought for the day, quiz and moral teaching on ethical values and pronunciation of English words.
6. The school organizes inter house co-curricular activities by conducting competition among the students in elocution, debate, essay writing, quiz, drawing, painting, dance and music.
7. The school facilitates intensive training inputs for improving reading, writing and speaking abilities of the students with regular weekly tests. Also the school facilitates supervised study in its well-furnished library.
8. The school conducts medical check-up of the students at regular intervals.
9. The school provides its students the opportunity of participating in various national level exams for their exposure to the greater competitive world.
10. Bharat scouts and guides has been introduced.