Parle Tilak Vidyalaya
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Parle Tilak Vidyalaya (also known as PTV) is an educational institution in Vile Parle
Vile Parle
Vile Parle , also known as "Parla", is a suburb of Mumbai. Vile Parle is also the name of the railway station in this suburb, on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line. Vile Parle has a significantly strong base of Marathi and Gujarati population. The name "Vile Parle" has...

, Mumbai
Mumbai
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, India
India
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. It consists of four schools - the PTV English Medium School
Parle Tilak Vidyalaya English Medium School
Parle Tilak Vidyalaya English Medium School is an English medium school located in Vile Parle East in Mumbai, India. The school has Primary and Secondary Sections. The school produces merit list rankers in the Maharashtra State Secondary Board examinations year after year...

, the PTV Marathi Medium Secondary School, the PTV Marathi Medium Primary School and Paranjape Vidyalaya.

The Marathi Medium School (then unified), was founded in 1921, as a tribute to Shri Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...

. The English medium School was founded in 1982.

The Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association also constitutes a number of junior colleges mainly in Vile Parle
Vile Parle
Vile Parle , also known as "Parla", is a suburb of Mumbai. Vile Parle is also the name of the railway station in this suburb, on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line. Vile Parle has a significantly strong base of Marathi and Gujarati population. The name "Vile Parle" has...

, but also in Andheri and Mulund. The headmistress of the school is Mrs. Sharda Limaye (English Medium)
Parle Tilak Vidyalaya English Medium School
Parle Tilak Vidyalaya English Medium School is an English medium school located in Vile Parle East in Mumbai, India. The school has Primary and Secondary Sections. The school produces merit list rankers in the Maharashtra State Secondary Board examinations year after year...

and Mrs. G. Karande (Marathi Medium).

The schools (both the English and Marathi medium) have produced merit list rankers in the State Secondary Board examinations year after year. The Marathi medium school takes part in examinations like NTS, MTS, and Homi Bhabha Young Scientist Examination.

This institute has produced some outstanding performers in various fields; from medicine to music ,from civil services to defence services, from theatre to social reformers, writers to great teachers....the list is endless. Its students have shed their blood in defence of the Nation. Captain Makarand Ghanekar, Captain Vinayak Gore have made the supreme sacrifice. The school has amongst its alumni Chief of IAF (batch of 1964). At present, there are dozen plus students in the armed forces.
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