Kundan Vidya Mandir, Ludhiana
# Kundan Vidya Mandir, Ludhiana

Kundan Vidya Mandir, also known as Kundan Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School (abbreviated to KVM) is a co-educational senior secondary school with 2 campuses in Ludhiana. It was founded in 1941 by freedom fighter, Rai Sahib Kundan Lal. The school is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). It offers education from kindergarten to class XII.

The current principal of the school is Anand Prakash Sharma. It is run by Shri Kundan Lal Trust, which also has a school in Chandigarh by name of Kundan International School.

## History

Founded in 1941, the school is named after its founder, Rai Sahib Kundan Lal, who was a freedom fighter and philanthropist.

It got affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education in 1963, becoming the first CBSE school in Punjab, India.

The school has another branch in Chandigarh, called Kundan International School, which was established in 2007. The Chandigarh campus is headed by the headmistress, Manjeet Jauhar.

The school is administered and managed by the Shri Kundan Lal Trust, a charitable trust.

## Campus

The school's infrastructure facilities include a library, labs for physics, chemistry, biology, geography, psychology, a conference hall, music rooms, and dance rooms. It hosts 112 classrooms, an activity room, art room, computer labs, robotics lab, 3D lab, home science lab, math lab, language lab, canteen, state of the art auditorium and infirmary.

The sports facilities of Kundan Vidya Mandir include two splash pools, volleyball court, football ground, skating rink and shooting range. It also has a playground that measures 3937 square metres. The school campus of KVM is spread across 7 acres.

## Notable alumni

* Pankaj Kapur (Actor)
* Harjot Kaur (Civil servant & Strategic Adviser to the World Bank)
* Karan Goel (cricketer)
* Gitansh Khera (cricketer)

## Recognition

* Kundan Vidya Mandir was listed among the top ten schools in Ludhiana by The Hush Post in 2018.
* The school has been ranked #218 in the survey of EW Ranking in 2017.
* It ranked #5 in a list of Punjab's Top School Ranking 2014 by the Elets 's Digital Learning (DL) Ranking.
* Kundan Vidya Mandir was awarded Rex Karmaveer Education Change Champion Fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra Award in 2019.
