PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya Gill Nagar, Chennai

Choolaimedu is a densely built residential quarter in the middle of Chennai, hemmed in by Nungambakkam to the east and Aminjikarai to the north, and a school here draws from a catchment where very little open land exists. The Kendriya Vidyalaya sits on Shanmuganar Salai with the postal code 600094, and both CBSE's register and the sangathan's directory place it there, the former recording the locality as Gill Nagar and the latter giving the street. For a central government family living in the Nungambakkam or Kilpauk corridor, this is by some way the nearest Kendriya Vidyalaya.

Its affiliation number is 1900002, the second lowest CBSE has issued in its Chennai district list after the IIT campus school at 1900001. Affiliation numbers run in sequence, so the low number suggests this is among the older Kendriya Vidyalayas in the city, though the register prints no founding date and the school's own site, where that date would appear, could not be opened. The sangathan's directory assigns KV code 1774, which sits in the 1766 to 1779 block shared by the long-established Chennai campuses, and that is a second, independent pointer in the same direction.

What could not be obtained, and why, deserves a plain statement. Three separate attempts were made on 16 September 2026 to load the school's website, two over HTTPS and one over plain HTTP, spaced apart rather than fired in sequence. Each time the domain resolved correctly to a government s3waas host at 103.195.210.139 and the connection then hung until it expired at thirty seconds. Sixteen of the twenty-five Kendriya Vidyalaya sites checked across the two cities that day loaded normally and nine did not, and every one of the nine sat in the same hosting address range. The conclusion is a partial outage on a shared government platform, and the practical consequence is that nothing about sections, roll, streams, staffing or facilities at this campus could be read.

CBSE does record two things that matter. The school is affiliated at senior secondary level, so Classes 11 and 12 run here, and its register entry carries the PM SHRI prefix, marking it as designated under the central scheme for schools chosen to exemplify the National Education Policy 2020. That designation brings funding and reporting obligations and changes nothing about who may be admitted, which remains governed by the sangathan's guidelines. The streams offered at senior level are not recorded in either register.

Both registers name the principal as Dr V Kalyanaraman, in identical form, which in this set of twenty-five schools is notable: at the Ashok Nagar, Island Grounds, No. 2 Tambaram and DRDO campuses the two registers give different names, and at one the school's own staffing table contradicts both. Where CBSE and the sangathan independently agree, the entry has a better claim to being current, though a telephone call before any correspondence remains the sensible course.