In the early 1980s, Shri Lajja Ram Ji Tomar, who was the life of Vidya Bharati Karnataka, gave the responsibility of planning for the uniformity of the Vandana sung in schools and its recitation, to Vishwaratna, founder principal of Delhi's Geeta Bal Bharti Vidyalaya. The principal assigned this task to Sri Rajkumar Verma, the music teacher of the school. Sri Verma, along with a few other schools’ music teachers prepared a 10-minute schedule of the Vandana. This included