The School was started in the year 2005 at Udhampur under the name “SRILA PRABHUPADA INTERNATIONAL GURUKUL”, for primary classes. Its management committee was headed by H.H. Navayogendra Swamiji Maharaj. Since then, the school has been running in the most energetic, hard working and disciplined manner for the rural as well as urban generation.
H.H. Navayogendra Swamiji was born on 12-5-1946 in a Rajpurohit brahmin family. Since birth he was inclined towards Krishna bhakti .After graduating from Govt. Degree College Udhampur, His Holiness joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a leading spiritual organization, and got initiated by Srila Prabhupada, the founder Acharya of ISKCON. At the age of 28, His Holiness was awarded Sannyasa. Since then, he has been preaching the message of Gita in many languages and many countries, all across the globe.
To fulfill the desire of Srila Prabhupada and to alleviate the deteriorating condition of education for poor children in society, Swamiji started an ambitious project of providing free education along with free boarding and lodging to the poor and needy ones, at Srila Prabhupada Ashram Udhampur. Soon the number of students joining this school increased. Feeling the need of a much better administrative control system, Swamiji decided to set up a proper management committee and named the institution as SRILA PRABHUPADA INTERNATIONAL GURUKUL (Free boarding school). It is His Holiness strong ambition to make this Institution a role model for the society in providing quality education to the poor and needy ones. His desire is to provide some really good charactered and responsible persons through this Institution, who can do something good and noticeable for the society.
