KVs say grooms wanted for teachers

KVs are running matrimonial service on their website.

NEW DELHI: Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) are known across India for their academic excellence and a wide network of good, inexpensive schools. But away from the classroom, the teachers are busy playing cupid.

The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) -- which looks after the schools -- runs a popular matrimonial service on its website that gives details of more than 100 unmarried teachers who wish to find partners within the so-called KV family.

The link to the matrimonial service – found on the right side of the bottom panel of the website – lists the names, addresses, designations, email ids, dates of birth and even the phone numbers of prospective brides and grooms. “It is a good initiative as it’s free of cost and there are a number of KV teachers who want to get married to a teacher as they have similar working hours,” said a KV teacher from Maharashtra who uploaded his details online.

The scheme was started in 2012 to help some of the 55,000 teachers across 1,128 Kendriya Vidyalaya schools to find each other, meet and possibly get married. Officials say the teachers provided their details voluntarily. The KVS is now forming a committee for review and take a call on whether to continue with the scheme and ways to improve it. “We are forming a committee which will review whether to continue with this scheme. The information uploaded on the website has to come through the principal of the school. We don’t entertain applications otherwise for safety,” said UN Khaware, additional commissioner (academics), KVS.

The level of details available is no less than a professionally run matrimonial website. What’s better, teachers say, is that the stamp of the government-run KVS ensures safety and no threat of stalkers or abusive calls. “I wanted to get married to someone from the same field. It helps to have someone who has similar timings. I posted my information and got a few calls but it didn’t work out. But it is a good platform,” said Nikhil Kesharwani, a music teacher in KV.