About Sainik School, Kunjpura in , Karnal

Sainik School, Kunjpura is one of the first five Sainik Schools (military school) established by the 'Sainik Schools Society' in 1961 in India and was the first Sainik School in the state of Haryana. It was set up prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Pune. The school comes under the control of the state government and Ministry of Defence.Situated west of Kunjpura village in Karnal district of Haryana, the school stands on a 275acre campus and is situated 10 km northeast of Karnal city and 130 km north of Delhi.More than 575 students from the school have qualified for the National Defence Academy (NDA). The school made news when a record 16 students qualified for joining the NDA in 2006 through the written examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and the subsequent interview conducted by Services Selection Board (SSB) and the number increased to twenty in 2008.HistoryThe school was started in July 1961 on the large property that originally belonged to the last Nawab of Kunjpura, Ibrahim Ali Khan, who had built it in the year 1900 to house the marriage party of his daughter. The property passed into the hands of the Defence Ministry as the nawab migrated to Pakistan after the independence of India and died in Lahore in 1952. Before becoming the Sainik School, it was also the ‘sanctum sanctorium’ of the prestigious ‘Punjab Police Academy’.

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