Arya Vidya Mandir Group of Institutes

What started off as a modest experiment 5 decades ago in 1970, AVM today is a leading ICSE school in Mumbai with 3 full-fledged schools – AVMBW,AVMBE, AVMJ besides the AVM Institute of Early Childcare Education and the Institute of Special Education. AVM’s educational philosophy was conceived along modern lines with the best in terms of holistic development, innovative methodology and scientific approach seamlessly balanced with a solid foundation steeped in Indian values, with love for our culture and heritage.

Arya Vidya Mandir was the brainchild of our First Honorary Secretary Shri. Jagdishchandra Malhotra, a true blue educationist along with our President of Arya Samaj, Sanatcruz, Shri. Mangaldas Verma, a born philanthropist, our founder-member Shri. Arjunbhai K Patel, our treasurer Shri. Inder Bal Malhotra, Shri. Bhisham Dev Nangia, Shri. Navinchandra Pal, Shri. Shamlal Talwar, Prof. Jagdishchandra Bahl our First Vice President and Shri. Vishwa Bandhu Singhal were the other signatories to the Memorandum of the Association.

After establishing a strong base of our first AVM school at the Santacruz campus in 1971, led by the able and gracious principal Ms Shobha Shirodkar, we laid the foundation of Arya Vidya Mandir Bandra West in 1983 followed by our third school at Juhu in memory of Smt. Ramdevi Sobhraj Bajaj in 1989 with the support of Shri. Sobhraj Bajaj and his family. The Arya Vidya Mandir Institute of Early Childhood Education was established in 1991 followed by the Institute of Special Education in 1997. The fourth school at Bandra Kurla Complex in memory of Shri. Vasudev C Wadhwa was established in 1999 with the support of Shri. Vijay Wadhwa. The schools in Bandra West and Santacruz West were later merged and the classes from Play School to Standard 2 classes are housed in the Santacruz campus while the larger Bandra West campus houses the older classes from Standard 3 to Standard 10.