King George’s School Nowgong Photo Gallery

King George V (1865-1936) was the king of Great Britain and the emperor of India from 1910 to 1936. Though during World War I he had no direct responsibility, his duties took him to 450 military and naval installations, 300 military hospitals, and to several other places for personally distributing as many as 58,000 decorations. It was during these visits that King George V was so impressed with the courage and fighting abilities of the Indian troops that at the conclusion of the war, he decided to set up some institutions for the education of children of the Indian Jawans.

Hence these schools were named “King George Royal Indian Military Colleges” (KGRIMC). Along with its sister KGRIMS institute now located in Jhelum, Pakistan, Chail Military School was named as King George Royal Indian Military School after King George V. After World War I, in February 1922 the foundation stone of the school was laid at Jalandhar Cantonment and regular classes were started in Punjab in September 1925 at Jalandhar Cantonment and the second campus at KGRIMS Jhelum (now in Pakistan). In 1930, the King George Royal Indian Military College of Ajmer was established. In 1945 when World War II came to an end, two more King George Royal Indian Military Colleges were started at Belgaum and Bangalore by King George VI.

King George’s School Nowgong Photo Gallery

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Until 1952, Regimental Centres sponsored the sons of JCOs/ORs for admission to KGRIMCs. The aim then was to give education up to Army Special Classes and then make them VCOs. Some of them were also commissioned as officers.

On 26 January 1950, these KGIMS were renamed the “King George’s Military College” (KGMC).

In July 1952, these were renamed the “King George’s School” (KGS). On the recommendations of a committee headed by educationist Dr. Hridaya Nath Kunzru, KGS was reorganized as residential public schools, and admissions were thrown open to the sons of Service Officers as well as Civilians. This brought the schools within the reach of the middle class for the first time. Instead of the Army Exams, the students switched over to the Senior Cambridge Certificate Examination, and the condition that all students should join the military services were dropped. The motto then was “Play The Game”.

On 1 July 1960, the King George’s School Nowgong, which was earlier moved from Jalandhar to Kitchner College in Nowgong in 1952, was relocated to its current location in Chail in Himachal Pradesh.

In 1962, the fifth KGS school was started at Dholpur in Rajasthan.

In 1963, the affiliation of KGS to the University of Cambridge was replaced by the Higher Secondary School Examination conducted by Central board of secondary education (CBSE) Delhi.

On 1 January 1966, the KGS was renamed the “Military School” with the “xyz Military School” nomenclature, e.g. “Chail Military School”. On reorganization, public school education was, for the first time, brought within the reach of the middle class. Admission was thrown open to sons of service officers and civilians as well. The motto of the schools was changed to “Sheelam Param Bhushanam” which translates to “Character is the Greatest Virtue”.

In January 1998, the nomenclature changed again when the location prefix “xyz” was dropped, and the KGS was re-designated “Military School, xyz”, e.g. “Military School, Chail”.