Amtul’s Public School in Nainital

Amtul’s Public School

NAINITAL
Uttaranchal

Email: amtul@vsnl.com

MissionStatement

Amtul’s Public School, aims at imparting education with a firm moral base. Learning through better teaching facilities. Academic excellence by offering wide syllabus. Inculcating a sense of nationality, unity in diversity and a desire for integration of regional, linguistic and ideological heterogeneity. Physical fitness through various sports, thus developing all facets of a child’s personality. Our motto “Lead Kindly Light”.

ResourceGeneration

Amtul’s Public School is run under the auspices of Amtul’s Educational Trust. Its sole source of fund is the school fee, charged bi-annually. Therefore, it functions independently.

Background

Founder Haji Abdul Wajid Saheb, an egalitarian by virtue, lived a life consecrated to the cause of education and upliftment of the down trodden in the society. Knowing quality modern education is the sole constituent of a healthy society, he established Amtul’s Public School in 1983. His efforts consequently heralded a lineage of top notch schools, videlicet: Amtul’s Public School, Aligarh (UP), Amtul’s Public School, Rampur (UP), Pine Grove International School, Naukuchia Tal (Uttaranchal) under the patronage of his son Mr. Abdul Rashid with preceptor Mr. M. M. Khan.

Campus
A sprawling campus with an edifice reminiscent of a bygone era, surrounded by many modern infrastructures fulfilling all the requisites of CBSE pattern of English Medium Schools in India.

Atmosphere
A harmonious ambience where there is no discrimination on the basis of religion, region or caste. As Dr. (Mrs.) Kiran Bedi, IPS (Chief Guest Annual PT Display 2001) rightly said. Amtul’s Public School is a true symbolic representation of national integrity and unity in diversity.

The Head
In the year 1988 when Amtul’s Public School was barely past incipiency, Mr. Mairaj Mohammad Khan took up the office of the head. Hailing from a background of administration Mr. Khan is a keen educationist as well. This unparalleled synthesis brought about revolutionary changes in the school on both the fronts, academic and administrative. Under his able tutelage and sublime genius, Amtul’s Public School has reached an educational utopia. The school presently ranks as one of the top most schools in Northern India. A disciplinarian by nature Mr. Khan firmly believes in understanding the problem itself and thus reaching to the root cause to eradicate it. He is associated very well with his students and staffs. His personal involvement in every facet of educating a child has created an educational yet homely ambience, much lacking in present day public schools.

The Teaching Staff

The school has thirty five teachers. There are ten PGTs teaching classes XI and XII (Science and Commerce), fifteen TGTs till class X and seven PRTs. Beside these, the school has one music teacher, one physical education teacher, one art & craft teacher and individual coaches for various games. The school has specially appointed teachers for evening studies for the junior students so that they are given extra attention while completing their home work & studies. School has also made provision for extra coaching to the students found weak in their studies.

The Pupils

Though most of the students belong to upper middle class society they do not necessarily belong to any ethnic background. Students are selected on the basis of their merit in the entrance test organized by the school and held in the school campus, thereafter an interview with the Principal. School accommodates on an average thirty-five students per class and has the provision of two sections in each class. Overall strength of the school is six hundred fifty out of which four hundred students are in the boarding.

Affiliation

Amtul’s Public School is run on the lines of English medium public school. It is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

Results and Exams

The performance of students in class X and XII board exams held till date has been excellent with a hundred percent pass result. Students have also been awarded certificates of merit by the CBSE for their outstanding performance.

Sports

With emphasis on physical fitness Amtul’s Public School pays special attention on training boys in various field and indoor games under the supervision of PTIs and coaches. Boys are trained in cricket, football, hockey, basketball, volleyball, badminton, karate and taekwondo. This is along with many indoor games like table tennis, billiards, snooker, chess and carrom. Amtul’s Public School is the only school with the facility for golf to their students in an 18 hole golf. Amtul’s Public School participates in all the competitive events organized by District Sports Assocation, and also inter school meets. The school holds several cherished running trophies in Inter School Tournaments.

Extra Curricular Activities

After classes in their leisure, the students are trained in fine arts, pottery, dramatics, hiking and mountaineering. The students also take part in debates, plays & other co-curricular activities. The school also has its own Orchestra, wherein the boys are taught various musical instruments and vocals.

The fee structure for the day scholars are as follows

Other Expenses Payable Senior Junior
Science Fee (Class IX to XII)
(For 9 Months) 100/- per month per subject
Computer fee (Classes I to V) 1500/-
Computer fee (Classes VI to VIII) (Optional for Class XI & XII) 1700/-
Admission fee (For New Admission) 1000/-
Security Deposit for New Admissions (Refundable) 2000/-
Boys Personal Deposit (Indian) 1500/-
School Development 700/-
(Accountable)

Admission

Children are admitted to the school at the age of four plus.

Admission is granted after an admission test and a personal interview with the child and also the parent.

If a child is found fit for admission, the school makes a provisional offer of admission which should be accepted within two weeks of receipt of the offer.

The letter of acceptance referred to above should invariably be accompanied with a bank draft for the following fee payable at any bank in Nainital in favour of Amtul’s Public School, Nainital. i) Admission Fees ii) Security Deposit
Out of these, the Security Deposit is refundable when the child leaves the school after the final settlement of accounts, provided settlement application for withdrawal of security deposit is made before 31st of December in the year after which the withdrawal is sought. Admission would be confirmed after the receipt of fee and Transfer Certificate of the previous school and an affidavit declaring the date of birth of the ward.

The school reserves the right to refuse admission if the letter of acceptance is not accompanied with the Bank Draft.

If a parent/guardian decides not to send his ward after he has deposited the above mentioned amounts, they would forfeit the amount deposited towards admission fee.

TC from the school may be obtained against payment of Rs. 100/- that is after the final settlement of the child’s accounts.

The school reserves the right to refuse admission or re-admission to a child without assigning any reason, whatsoever.

In case there is no possibility of administrating an admission test, the Principal may on his own discretion admit any child depending on the progress report of the applicant. But it should be noted that the child may be asked to be withdrawn at the end of the academic year if he fails to qualify for promotion to the next class.

Scholarships
Scholarships are normally not given. The management has decided to give away cash prize as scholarship to the toppers of each class and also to meritorious student belonging to economically challenged families.

Management
The school was founded by Late Haji Abdul Wajid Sahib along with his son Mr. Abdul Rashid. The promoters are a leading export house of Moradabad and the institution is run by “Amtul’s Educational Trust”.

Destination
The school does not prepare students for any particular institution but students have entered in various good institutions like I.I.T., medical colleges, management colleges etc. of India and abroad on the basis of their meritorious performance.

Alumni
After witnessing over a decade of successful outgoing batches, the school felt the dire need to form an alumni association in order to bring all under one umbrella. This vision eventually took form in the year 2000. This association was named “Amtul’s Old Boys’ Association” with its head office at Amtul’s Public School, Nainital.