Navodaya Vidyalayas are pace setting Co-educational residential schools established under the National Policy on Education 1986. These vidyalayas aim at providing opportunities to the rural talented children to develop their potential and promote National Integration, one fourth of the admission is restricted for Urban and one third is reserved for girls and 3% seats are reserved for physically handicapped children. The children of Kargil Martyrs are admitted without appearing in the entrance exam.