 Funded by the Indian Ministry of Human Resources, JNCV is located at Chikkajogihalli Village of Kudligi Taluk of Bellary District of Karnataka State in India.The school was established in the year 1988 in the campus of Chikkajogihalli by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an autonomous body which comes under the Ministry of Human Resource and Development New Delhi.Navodaya Vidyalaya is the dream child of late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the Ex-Prime Minister of India, implemented by Dr Manamohan Singh and PV Narasimha Rao, other Ex- Prime Minister of India.