title: Gita Niketan Awasiya Vidyalaya
text: # Gita Niketan Awasiya Vidyalaya
  
  Gita Niketan Awasiya Vidyalaya is a boarding school in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. It is run by the Vidya Bharati, an educational organisation.
  
  The school was founded on 21 January 1973 by Madhav Sadashiv Rao Golvalkar and is run by Vidya Bharati all India educational organisation which runs more than 24,000 schools.
  
  Gita Niketan Awasiya Vidyalaya participates in quizzing competitions, and hosted Vidya Bharti's All-India Quiz Competition in 2007.
  
  ## History
  
  The school was founded on 21 January 1973 by Madhav Sadashiv Rao Golvalkar . It is run by Vidya Bharti, an all India educational organisation which runs more than 24,000 schools.
  
  ## School organisation
  
  ### Academics
  
  Gita Niketan Awasiya Vidyalaya is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and functions up to the Senior Secondary level of education (Class 12).
  
  ### House system
  
  The school follows a house system, a system commonly used in public schools. The four houses are named after famous rivers in India: Brahmaputra, Ganga, Ravi, and Yamuna. Each house is represented by a color which matches the first letter of the house.
  
  * Brahmaputra- Blue
  * Ganga - Green
  * Ravi- Red
  * Yamuna- Yellow
  