Vana Vani situated in the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, was founded on 8th July 1963 as a primary school with 52 pupils. Today it has grown and developed into a fullfledged Matriculation Higher Secondary School with above 2000 boys and girls on the rolls. |
The school is run by the IIT Madras Educational Trust and is managed by a Committee comprising of the Chairman, the Secretary - cum - Treasurer, the Principal, an Educationist of repute and parent representatives. |
“The school is operated by a Trust, namely, the IIT Madras Educational Trust consisting of the following Trustees - Director (IITM) as Managing Trustee, Registrar (IITM) as Secretary, Dean (Academic Courses) and Dean (Administration) as members. The Trust is a non-profit organisation registered under the Registrar of Societies, Tamil Nadu. For directing the school operations, the Trust appoints a Managing Committee (MC), members of which are appointed for a three-year period. The present MC appointees are Prof. S. P. Dhanavel (Chairman), Shri. Raman Kumar (Secretary-Cum-Treasurer), Mr. M. Sathish Kumar (Principal), Smt. Vijayalakshmi Srivatsan (Educationist of Repute), Prof. Sudakar Chandran (Member, Parent representative from Group A Faculty), Shri R Parthiban (Member, Parent representative from Group B employees), Shri D Govindaraj (Member, Parent representative from Group C employees), Smt. Kalpanasakthivel (Member, Parent representative), and Smt. Roslin Gilda (Member, Engineering Unit of IITM). All the members of the MC(except principal) are honorary - no remuneration or monetary benefits are attached to these positions. |