with over 75 lakh students under its fold kendriya vidyalaya sangathan kvs today stands as an important pillar of the indian education system established in 1965 the sangathan now has 843 schools imparting secondary and senior secondary education across the country the last three months witnessed six commissioners heading the kvs education times speaks to jamuda who is all set for a much longer stint with kvs about his priorities and vision for the organisationas the new kvs commissioner what is on your immediate agendathere are a large number of faculty positions lying vacant at kvs my immediate priority is to fill these positions so that the students do not suffer due to the absence of adequate teaching staff there are about 3400 positions which i will ensure are filled within a monthsecondly we have to enforce discipline for better services and results if we want to be the best then discipline in all forms is a must we are already better than the public schools yet we cannot be complacentwhat features in your longterm prioritieswe have over 840 kendriya vidyalayas across the country out of which 250 are without permanent buildings we are soon going to start the construction of buildings for these schools our motto is qualitative improvement and we do not believe in quantity we are not doing business but neither are we crusaders ensuring education for allwe have our task chalked out by our vision statement to cater to the educational needs of children of transferable central government employees by providing a common programme of education to pursue excellence and set the pace in the field of school education to initiate and promote experimentation and innovation in education in collaboration with bodies like the central board of secondary education and national council of educational research and training and to develop the spirit of national integration and create a sense of indianness among childrenwhat is your opinion on the grading system that cbse is trying to introduce for primary classes grading system is fine it will help in establishing a stressfree learning environment but for higher classes it is not a viable option our present system is better and most students in higher classes are now much better equipped to deal with stresskvs delhi regions doubleshift experiment received a good response are there any plans to introduce similar programmes in other regions as wellalthough we received a positive response yet we are not going to pursue any such programme in other regions in near future primarily because despite the good response it is too early to consider it a success and we need to fine tune the programme to make it regionspecific but yes we may in the long run go for doubleshifts in other regions so that we