Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas are residential schools for girls belonging predominantly to the SC, ST, OBC and minority communities in difficult areas. The State has 11 KGBVs having both school and hostel component from upper primary to secondary level with 150-200 seat capacity. Girls from families below poverty line, socially disadvantaged groups and such other children have been mainstreamed since the implementation of such scheme.

11

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas run across Manipur

150–200

seats at every school, school and hostel under one roof

UP–Sec

upper primary through secondary level covered

Why these schools exist

One Campus to Live and Learn on

Each KGBV pairs a school with a hostel, so girls from families below the poverty line, and other socially disadvantaged groups, can live, study and grow within a single, secure campus. Since the scheme took hold in Manipur, it has drawn back into mainstream education thousands of girls who had dropped out, or never enrolled at all.

Capacity Building Programme for Staffs:

Training the People Who Run the School

New policy rarely reaches a classroom on its own. Four staff members from every KGBV take part in training built around the National Education Policy 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education, so the people running these schools are as prepared as the policies ask them to be.

Specific skill training

Skills That can Support a Life

Beyond the timetable, students learn trades that can carry them forward: paper-bag making, flower craft, tailoring, soap making, pickle making and jewellery making. The goal is economic independence, not just a certificate.

Medical health checkups

Health Checked, Not Just Assumed

Regular checkups run in partnership with the nearest Primary Health Centres and the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram. No Tobacco Day and World Malaria Day are marked at every vidyalaya, turning awareness into a yearly habit rather than a one-off notice.

Parents & teachers

Families Kept Inside the Decision, Not Outside It

Regular Parent–Teacher Meetings bring parents, guardians and community members into the conversation about a girl's education — treated as partners in her progress, not occasional visitors to it.

Games & sports

A Stadium's Worth of Firsts

Annual Games & Sports bring every vidyalaya together for indoor and outdoor competition. A Female Sports Awareness Programme for judo, run with Manipur's Department of Youth Affairs & Sports and the Inspire Institute of Sport, Bangalore, gave students a rare afternoon training alongside Arjuna awardee Sushila Likmabam.

Tree plantation

Care That Starts on Their Own Campus

Gardening and tree plantation drives, held inside and outside every campus, put environmental care into students' hands rather than leaving it in a textbook.

Students' interaction programme

A Stage Beyond Their Own School Gates

Girls from different KGBVs meet for quiz contests, extempore speeches and talent showcases — a chance to compete, perform and make friends outside their own vidyalaya.

Integration of ICT

A Lesson Students Watch Unfold

Smart boards and digital tools are folding into everyday lessons, turning a grammar class on tenses — or any other subject — into something students see happen, rather than only copy down.

Eleven Schools. One Shared Idea:

That a girl's postcode, or her family's income, should never be the reason she stops learning. Across Manipur's 11 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, that idea takes the shape of a hostel bed, a health checkup, a craft learned, a stage stood on.