page_title: D.A.V. College Managing Committee
section_title: Aided schools
hierarchical_section_title: D.A.V. College Managing Committee / Aided schools
caption_attribution_description: English: Entry to School Building
context_page_description: The D.A.V. College Managing Committee, familiarly known as DAVCMC, is a non-governmental educational organisation in India and overseas with over 900 schools. 75 colleges and a university. It is based on the ideals of the religious and social reformer, Swami Dayanand Saraswati. The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic education system also comprises colleges offering graduate and post-graduate degrees in various areas of study all over India.
  Founded in 1886 in Lahore by the efforts of Mahatma Hansraj in the memory of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, these schools are run by the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College Trust and Management Society, also commonly known as the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Education Society. It holds the record for producing the largest number of CBSE toppers as a single institution in the last 10 years. Today, institutional records of the D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society are part of the archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, at Teen Murti House, Delhi.
  English is the primary language of instruction, with students also receiving compulsory education in Hindi and Sanskrit or a regional language.
context_section_description: There are over 62 government-aided DAV schools across the country which are being run by DAVCMC in co-operation with six state (Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Orissa and Punjab) and Chandigarh union territory governments.
caption: CAV High School at Hisar.
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