Dr Virendra Swarup Education Centre

"Dr. Virendra Swarup Educational Foundation" has been established at Kanpur in the cherished memory of Dr. Virendra Swarup, a leader in the filed of educational and parliamentarian of great repute. The great contribution made by Dr. Swarup in the field of education in this populous state is well known and is evident from the fact that he was responsible in ways more than one to establish a chain of educational institutions at all levels. not less than 25 educational institutions are run throughout the Uttar Pradesh under the auspices of the famous 'Dayanand Shiksha Sansthan' of which Dr. Swarup was the Head and Kuladhipati. Two full fledged Post-Graduate Colleges, A women's Training College and two Intermediate are being run at Dehradun. A dozen Post-graduate colleges, both for boys and girls and several Intermediate colleges fulfilling the needs and expectations of the general public are beimg run in the cosmopolitan city of Kanpur, and a couple of Post-graduate and Intermediate Colleges are functioning at Unnao and Bachrawan in Raibarieli district. Dr. Virendra Swarup Education Centre, Kidwai Nagar, was established in 1990 and is affiliated to the CISCE, New Delhi. The school has a strength of 2600 students. Both science and commerce streams are avilable as options. The school has an extensive playground and has facilities for basketball, volleyball, handball, football, hockey, cricket, kho-kho, badminton, table tennis. Activities such as clay modelling, skating, aero modeling, electronics, instrumental music (drums, guitar, sitar, tabla, violin, casio) Indian classical music, skating, Tae-kwon-do, photography, candle making, cooking, knitting, stitching, craft, public speaking, dramatics etc. are taught by special activity teachers. The school has a medical centre equipped with all emergency equipments supervised by a fully qualified nurse. The school also has a state of the art gym manned by a full time gym instructor. The school has had excellent results in the past years and students have excelled in both academic and extra curricular activities.