G.Karthikeyan Smaraka Govt & V.H.S.S

About G.Karthikeyan Smaraka Govt & V.H.S.S

G.Karthikeyan Smaraka Government Vocational and Higher Secondary School aka Government Model V HSS Vellanad is located in the midst of Vellanad, Thiruvananthapuram, the school started as a Lower Primary school in 1891 and from 1957 onwards it became an Upper Primary school and in 1962, it became the High School. In 1989, the VHSE Department started and in 2000, the Higher Secondary Section had also been launched. In 1998, the School won the PSSCIVE(Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education) Award. The school also won the State Award 2002-03 for establishing the best IT lab of IT@School project. It also received Central Government's 2nd Computer Literacy Excellence Award for School-2003. In 2004, Principal K. S Vimalakumari have been rewarded for the National Teachers Award. The school won the title 'MODEL' in the academic year 2012-2013. The school divided into four wings, such as Upper primary, High school, Higher secondary and Vocational higher secondary. The higher secondary wing offering courses for biology science, computer science, commerce, humanities and most exclusively for journalism (under Humanities group). Medical laboratory technician (MLT) and Live stock management (LSM) are the two courses offering in vocational higher secondary wing.