Activities

Shishuvan English Medium School

The management of Shri Hirji Bhojraj& Sons Cutchi Visha Oswal Jain Chhatralaya mooted the idea of setting up a top of the line English medium school in 1995. They accepted that the contemporary generation was in search of high quality education as well as fluency in spoken and written English, for its children. To house these ambitious plans, a new building would need to replace the old one. Fund raising proved no barrier as the progressive ideas of the management enthused members and ex-boarders alike, and the first phase of building began in 1996

Shishuvan came into existence in June 2001 with the combined efforts of a small team consisting of the chairperson of the English medium school committee, the school consultant, head of department pre-primary and four pre-primary teachers. After 5 months of intensive teacher training and completion of the interiors, the school formally opened for its students in October 2001 with 70 students joining Playschool and Nursery.

It was decided that Shishuvan would add one standard every year. The current student’s strength of school is 1700+ students in 13 classes from Nursery to Std XII. The school’s teaching and non-teaching staff total 165+ people.

The ISC (Indian School Certificate) is the senior secondary / junior college programme that we offer at Shishuvan English Medium School in Classes XI & XII that is affiliated to CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations)

AFFILIATION: As a school affiliated to the ICSE Board, Shishuvan Follows the Norms Set by Council for Indian school Certificate examinations (CISCE). The school is a member of the Association of ICSE schools in Maharashtra (AISM).

Here also mention that we have good infrastructure to implement new education policy immediately when it comes into force.

For more details please visit www.shishuvan.com

H. G. Savla Skill Development Centre

The Kutchi community is known for business skills and entrepreneurship. Skill development is an important issue to move ahead in life. Shri Hirji Bhojraj & Sons Cutchi Visha Oswal Jain Chhatralya is starting a new initiative to provide skill training to our youth with objective of enhancing employability, economic upliftment and good standard of living for all. This initiative is in alignment with our government’s new education policy and Skill India mission.

Employers often look for employees and applicants who possess certain skills in order that they can create productive and efficient workplaces. While there are several different skills needed in a professional environment, a majority of them are rooted in

  • 1) Sector wise job role specific skills
  • 2) Technology skills
  • 3) Soft skills.

Skill Development Centre will provide our youth with the targeted training they need to gain the knowledge and abilities necessary to fulfill the specific requirements of job positions.

We, at Shri Hirji Bhojraj & Sons Cutchi Visha Oswal Jain Chhatralya’s H. G. Savla Skill Development Centre will provide to collaborate with Domain Experts and institutions to facilitate youth with the right kind of skill sets. The legacy of 100 plus years of cultivating talent pool, will achieve new milestone through the state-of-the-art Skill Development Centre. We are sure that our efforts in this direction will be instrumental in the prosperity of the society as a whole.

AFFILIATION: As a school affiliated to the ICSE Board, Shishuvan Follows the Norms Set by Council for Indian school Certificate examinations (CISCE). The school is a member of the Association of ICSE schools in Maharashtra (AISM).

Maker Space (Incubation Centre)

We have so many innovators hidden who are capable of inventing great creations but are unable to execute them. Also, so many people have the finest innovative and creative ideas but they lack hands-on support to achieve the same.

Many a time the person who has a great idea won’t have the skill to do the same and the person having excellent skills won’t be able to give great innovative ideas, but if we combine these two kinds of people and put them in a makerspace, they can create so much exploration and opportunity for many and themselves, and hence the management of Shri Hirji Bhojraj& Sons Cutchi Visha Oswal Jain Chhatralaya has decided to start Makerspace (incubation centre) for Shishuvan school students, Boarders and KVO community.
Makerspace is a collaborative workspace where everyone has an opportunity to gain practical hands-on experience with new technologies, and innovative and creative processes to design and build projects. It provides a flexible environment where learning is made physical by applying science, technology, maths, and creativity to build innovative projects and get ideas into reality.

It provides sharing the knowledge and experience from co-makers of the space as well as from those who have already worked on similar projects and at Makerspace, efforts will be made to make available resources and the needs of the students/makers/researchers who use it. To begin with, physical space with the appropriate infrastructure will be provided with all possible modern tools and equipment.

Durgapur/Navavas Kutch – Shishuvan School

The care and overall development of "Matunga Boarding" started with 2 students in Mumbai, gave a ray of hope for higher education in Kutch also the number of students in Matunga Boarding was increasing every year and it was becoming difficult to admit more students. Keeping this in mind, the organization started thinking of organizing something for children aged 5 to 12 years. This consideration was materialized by a generous donation from the Trustees of the Seth Ghelabhai Ganesha Memorial Fund.
On 16/05/1934 the classes of Gujarati medium up to the third standard were started in Mr. Monji Ladha's house. In the second year, classes up to 5th standard were started.

After getting a vacant plot from Kutch State, a beautiful building was built, which could accommodate around 250 students. By accepting a generous donation of Seth Shri Lalji Leeladhar of Nana Bhadia of Rs. 22,501 in Durgapur school was named after him. It was renovated in year 2018, currently known as Shishuvan Navavas has more than 100 students

Sports Field

On dt. 18/11/1948 Mumbai Municipal Corporation gave an approximately 4500 yards ground space to Shri Hirji Bhojraj &Sons, C.V.O. Jain Chhatralaya i.e. Matunga Boarding, The Syeda ground is situated behind Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road - Rationing office, on lease of Rs. 5 per month for 25 years which has been regularly used by students of Shri Hirji Ghelabhai Savla School.

On Monday, dt. 22/07/1963, Trust board chairman Shri Khimji Maadan Bhujpuriya had done khatmuhurut of pavilion cum open theatre. It was inaugurated by then Mayor Mr. Leion D‘Souza in February, 1968.

The land which was leased out by the Mumbai Municipality, In the 1990s, the new Boarding management came and made sure that our children can use the pavilion. After that, in 2007, permission was given to build about 2500 feet of pavilion with the new metal sheet shade. Soon a new pavilion was built and our students continued to use and we strengthened our position. And our children started using this pavilion to play every day. Since then it is also being used by various organizations of our society. Today the entire society can take pride in it. Games like volleyball, basketball, table tennis are played there, and many state level competitions are also organized here.

Reading Room

In the city of Mumbai, bread is easy to earn but it is difficult to get place. For needy children of our society, our organization have made airy and cheerful huge reading room. Where any member of our society can study and in a very conducive environment.

The Language Mall

Language is the medium of exchange of ideas. In modern times when the horizons of the world are converging, knowledge of different languages is a very important part of building one's career.

Keeping pace with the times is proven in the nature of Kutchhi society. As knowledge of different languages seemed necessary, in 2008, the organization started Language Mall. Here French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Gujarati, Italian etc. languages are taught by expert teachers at very reasonable fees.

More than 1500 students have benefited from this language mall. Corporate training is also provided in groups of 50 to 60. Especially doctors, engineers, chartered accountants, business class etc. are taking advantage of it.

For more details please visit www.thelanguagemall.org

Boys Hostel

We have started Boy’s hostel with exceptional facilities including Jain Food at Matunga, in the heart of city, for KVO students pursuing higher studies. This will go a long way in promoting healthy, happy and cultured society apart from fulfilling contemporary educational needs.