St. Thomas Residential School is Located in Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala, India
Address of St. Thomas Residential School, Thiruvananthapuram
St. Thomas Nagar
Mukkolakkal
Thiruvananthapuram 695044
+91-4712511122
+91-4712511220
+91-4712511221
strs@stthomastvm.edu.in
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St. Thomas Residential School was established in 1990 in Thiruvananthapuram. It is the best school in Kerala. The vision of STRS that took shape in 6.6.1966 is to provide quality education based on Christian values, scientific temper, aesthetics and love and compassion for one’s fellow men. The mission is to develop a young generation blessed with faith in God and in themselves, self-confidence and a sense of dignity, built on the strong foundation of academic skills. It is the objective of the school to mould the future citizens of India with the highest academic perfection along with character and personality. To make leaders with quality of sportsmanship, team work and cooperation. To be sensitive to the needs of social and economic realities and also to environment, and to brace themselves to be global citizens.
"St. Thomas Residential School affiliated to the council for the ICSE is nothing short of destiny’s child, its name and fame reaching the far corners of the world; its aroma filling and blessing anyone it touched. A mega monolith with 3000 children and 124 teachers, it started with six students in a rented building in the heart of the city. From its modest beginning it is now housed in a sylvan surroundings in a smoke and plastic free environment in 30 acres of the green Mukkolakkal heartland. The school can be proud of its modern computer lab, a chapel in the Anglo Saxon mould, other sister schools St. Thomas Central School and St. Thomas Higher Secondary School and a B.Ed. College . The Campus has hostels for both boys and Girls. Our pride is the St. Thomas Tower where the offices of the MTCES are. Quality education is imparted to the students based on sound Christian values. The school is now forty three. It is now growing from strength to strength. It has churned out international and national figures and each one has a story to tell, May the genial grace of God surround our school and bless us always."
Thiruvananthapuram (IPA: [t̪iruʋənən̪t̪əpurəm] (listen)), commonly known by its former name Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011 The encompassing urban agglomeration population is around 168 million Located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland, Thiruvananthapuram is a major information technology hub in Kerala and contributes 55% of the state's software exports as of 2016.
Referred to by Mahatma Gandhi as the "Evergreen city of India", the city is characterised by its undulating terrain of low coastal hillsThe present regions that constitute Thiruvananthapuram were ruled by the Ays until their fall in the 10th century The city was then taken over by the Chera dynasty In the 12th Century, It was taken over by the Kingdom of Venad In the 17th century the king Marthanda Varma expanded the territory and founded the princely state of Travancore and made Thiruvananthapuram its capital.
Following India's independence in 1947, Thiruvananthapuram became the capital of Travancore-Cochin state and remained so till the new Indian state of Kerala was formed in 1956Thiruvananthapuram is a notable academic and research hub and home to the University of Kerala, Kerala Technological University, the regional headquarters of Indira Gandhi National Open University, and many other schools and colleges Thiruvananthapuram is also home to research centers such as the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Indian Space Research Organisation's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, National Centre for Earth Science Studies and a campus of the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research The city is home to media institutions like Toonz India Ltd and Tata Elxsi Ltd, and is also home to Chitranjali Film Studio, one of the first film studios in Malayalam Cinema, and Kinfra Film and Video Park at Kazhakoottom, which is India's first Infotainment industrial parkBeing India's largest city in the deep south, it is strategically prominent and hosts the Southern Air Command headquarters of the Indian Air Force, the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station and the upcoming Vizhinjam International Seaport.
Thiruvananthapuram is a major tourist centre, known for the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, the beaches of Kovalam and Varkala, the backwaters of Poovar and Anchuthengu and its Western Ghats tracts of Ponmudi and the Agastyamala In 2012, Thiruvananthapuram was named the best Kerala city to live in, by a field survey conducted by The Times of India In 2013, the city was ranked the fifteenth best city to live in India, in a survey conducted by India Today Thiruvananthapuram was ranked the best Indian city for two consecutive years, 2015 and 2016, according to the Annual Survey of India's City-Systems (ASICS) conducted by the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy The city was also selected as the best governed city in India in a survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for citizenship and democracy in 2017.
Kerala (English: Malayalam: [ke:ɾÉÉÉm] listen ) is a state on the southwestern Malabar Coast of India It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile states of Travancore-Cochin and Madras Spread over 38,863 km2 (15,005 sq mi), Kerala is the twenty-first largest Indian state by area It is bordered by Karnataka to the north and northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east and south, and the Lakshadweep Sea to the west With 33,387,677 inhabitants as per the 2011 Census, Kerala is the thirteenth-largest Indian state by population.
It is divided into 14 districts with the capital being Thiruvananthapuram Malayalam is the most widely spoken language and is also the official language of the state Kerala is the second-least impoverished state in India according to the Annual Report of Reserve Bank of India published in 2013The Chera Dynasty was the first prominent kingdom based in Kerala The Ay kingdom in the deep south and the Ezhimala kingdom in the north formed the other kingdoms in the early years of the Common Era (CE).
The region had been a prominent spice exporter since 3000 BCE The region's prominence in trade was noted in the works of Pliny as well as the Periplus around 100 CE In the 15th century, the spice trade attracted Portuguese traders to Kerala, and paved the way for European colonisation of India At the time of Indian independence movement in the early 20th century, there were two major princely states in Kerala-Travancore State and the Kingdom of Cochin They united to form the state of Thiru-Kochi in 1949.
The Malabar region, in the northern part of Kerala, had been a part of the Madras province of British India, which later became a part of the Madras State post-independence After the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, the modern-day state of Kerala was formed by merging the Malabar district of Madras State (excluding Gudalur taluk of Nilgiris district, Topslip, the Attappadi Forest east of Anakatti), the state of Thiru-Kochi (excluding four southern taluks of Kanyakumari district, Shenkottai and Tenkasi taluks), and the taluk of Kasaragod (now Kasaragod District) in South Canara (Tulunad) which was a part of Madras State
The economy of Kerala is the 10th-largest in India with ₹782 trillion (US$110 billion) in gross state domestic product (GSDP) and a per capita GSDP of ₹204,000 (US$2,900) Kerala has the lowest positive population growth rate in India, 3.
44%; the highest Human Development Index (HDI), 0784 in 2018 (0712 in 2015); the highest literacy rate, 962% in the 2018 literacy survey conducted by the National Statistical Office, India; the highest life expectancy, 77 years; and the highest sex ratio, 1,084 women per 1,000 men The state has witnessed significant emigration, especially to the Arab states of the Persian Gulf during the Gulf Boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, and its economy depends significantly on remittances from a large Malayali expatriate community.
Hinduism is practised by more than half of the population, followed by Islam and Christianity The culture is a synthesis of Aryan, Dravidian, Arab, and European cultures, developed over millennia, under influences from other parts of India and abroad
The production of pepper and natural rubber contributes significantly to the total national output In the agricultural sector, coconut, tea, coffee, cashew and spices are important The state's coastline extends for 595 kilometres (370 mi), and around 1.
1 million people in the state are dependent on the fishery industry which contributes 3% to the state's income The state has the highest media exposure in India with newspapers publishing in nine languages, mainly English and Malayalam Kerala is one of the prominent tourist destinations of India, with backwaters, hill stations, beaches, Ayurvedic tourism and tropical greenery as its major attractions