Having seen the educational needs of the area, E.C.L Management invited many leading organizations to lighten the lamp of knowledge in this remote corner of Jharkhand. However the offer was declined by them all due to some or other reason. But D.A.V. with its universal approach ventured to hold that responsibility in spite of many hurdles and hardships.In fact 28^th August 1995 dawned a new era in the history of CHITRA an educationally deprived coalfield area having a bulk of tribal population that witnessed D.A.V. as a ray of light and hope for life.

The advent of D.A.V. at this point stood as an assurance for the E.C.L. management that could ensure a better education/ quality education for the children of its employees, made them stable which finally enhanced the gross production of the colliery, thus realizing all the dreams. Since then D.A.V. moved ahead without looking back. This school initially started in one of the “C” Type quarters of the E.C.L. Chitra Mines up to Std. V only with hardly over 100 (one hundred) students. There was nothing to be disheartened. Gradually it got its momentum. 1^st May 2000 registered a landmark record. E.C.L. Management provided with a campus more than 3 acres of land, its own building, having spacious 33 rooms, separate laboratories, Library, Music and Sports rooms. School got its affiliation with CBSE for AISSE (Std.X) in the year 1999.

Soon after it also got its up gradation up to + 2 level, being a Senior Secondary School with a team of expert faculty members in the year 2003. Over the years the school has bagged many laurels and brilliant records in the field of both scholastic and co-scholastic. This school is proud to have produced many extraordinary students who are serving all over the country and abroad too with all dignity. In fact it has been and incessant effort of D.A.V. to extend its substantial service for the cause of humanity, and it is well proved here. Apart from it this school is the producer of a couple of ARDs from the succession list of Principals who are serving this prestigious Organisation in the capacity with able leadership. Now the school is at the zenith of its glory.