Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya

Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan (transl. Odisha Model Schools Organisation) was established on 19-September-2015 as a society under The Society Registration Act of Odisha, by the https://sme.odisha.gov.in/ Archived 2024-06-13 at the Wayback Machine Department of School and Mass Education, Govt. of Odisha.^[3]

The general body is the apex body of the Sangathan headed by Minister, School & Mass Education as chairman. The present advisor and working president is Upendra Tripathy,^[4] who was appointed on 03-August-2021 after Dr Bijaya Kumar Sahoo died from COVID-19 on 03-June-2021.^[5]

These Adarsha Vidyalayas would be CBSE affiliated fully day boarding schools, provide free education, and target talented students through an annual entrance examination. They would have Class VI through Class XII and each class would have 80 students. These schools would be administered through Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan,^[6] a society registered under the Society Registration Act of Odisha.