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Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Raipur

Common topics for editors to verify

The following checklist is offered as a structured prompt for verification. Each item should be confirmed against reliable sources and only then incorporated into the article. Items that cannot be verified should be omitted rather than stated tentatively.

  • Exact official name of the school, including any variations in English and in Hindi, and the correct expansion of any abbreviation used locally.
  • Precise location of the campus, including the village, tehsil or block, and district, and whether the school lies within the Raipur municipal area or in its surrounding rural region.
  • Year of establishment and any documented phases of development, such as shifts of campus, additions of buildings, or changes in capacity.
  • Affiliating board for examinations, the classes or grades offered, and the medium or media of instruction in actual practice.
  • Administrative structure, including the body responsible for the school, the designation of the head of the institution, and reporting lines, stated in general terms unless specific names are sourced.
  • Admissions process at the entry class, including the name of the selection test, without quoting fees, cut-offs, or statistics that have not been independently verified.
  • Residential facilities, hostel arrangements, dining and health-care provisions, described only to the level supported by sources.
  • Co-curricular activities, including sports, cultural events, scouting, and any documented participation in regional or national meets.
  • Notable achievements that have received independent coverage, distinguished from routine school announcements.
  • Any controversies, incidents, or administrative actions, which must be sourced to reliable independent reporting and worded with care.
  • Alumni, only where individuals are themselves the subject of reliable secondary sources and where their connection to the school is documented.

Suggested structure for the final article

A workable structure for the published article, once verified information is in hand, may include a short lead summarising the school in two or three sentences; an Infobox for schools, populated only with confirmed fields; a History section describing the establishment and major developments; a Campus and facilities section limited to features that sources actually mention; an Academics section covering classes offered, affiliating board and medium of instruction; an Admissions section briefly describing the entry process without quoting unverified statistics; a Co-curricular activities section grouping sports, cultural and other pursuits; a section on Administration outlining the governance pattern in general terms; and, where genuinely supported, a section on Notable alumni. A concluding See also list may link to the parent scheme, to the district or city, and to related educational institutions. References should be grouped at the end, with inline citations placed close to each non-trivial factual claim. Editors are encouraged to keep the tone descriptive rather than promotional, to avoid adjectives that imply judgement such as prestigious or premier unless reliably sourced, and to prefer plain factual phrasing. Where sources conflict, the article should reflect the disagreement rather than choose silently between versions.

Editorial notes

Reviewers handling this draft are asked to keep in mind several considerations. First, school articles on IndiaWiki are sometimes the target of well-intentioned but unsourced additions by students, parents, or staff; new contributions should be checked against reliable sources before retention. Second, photographs of the campus, staff or students must respect privacy norms and copyright, and any image used should have a clear licence. Third, contact details, fee structures, and current staff names tend to date quickly and are generally better avoided in encyclopaedic prose, except where they are of historical or analytical importance. Fourth, while the JNV scheme as a whole is well documented, individual school articles should not rely entirely on that general material; if independent coverage of this specific school is genuinely scarce, the responsible editorial response may be a shorter article, a stub, a redirect to a list of JNVs in the relevant state, or a merge, rather than expansion with generic content. Finally, this draft itself should not be published as-is; it is meant to be substantially rewritten with verified material before any reader-facing version goes live.

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