Sahodaya, is a concept literally meaning ‘rising together’, it came into existence in the year 1986, to facilitate synergy of ideas among the school of CBSE, for excellence in education. Sahodaya School complexes is a group of neighbourhood schools voluntarily coming to share their innovative practices in all aspects of school education including curriculum design, evaluation, and pedagogy and also providing support services for teachers and students.
This concept is developed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) New Delhi, the largest governing body of academics with nearly 10,000 schools affiliated to it within the country as well as abroad (118 Schools) functioning under the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. It is a unique platform for all CBSE affiliated Schools to share their experience and to work jointly for scholastic and co-scholastic excellence
In 1987, CBSE brought out a publication titled, “Freedom to learn and freedom to grow through Sahodaya School Complexes” (SSCs) which characterized “SSCs” as a voluntary association of schools in a given area, who through mutual choices, have agreed to come together for a systematic and system-wide renewal of the total educational process. In other words as “Sahodaya” signifies rising together, it identified six areas, to begin with, for collaboration amongst schools of its complex:
1. Educative Management
2. Evaluation
3. Human Resource Mobilization
4. Professional growth of teachers
5. Value oriented school climate
6. Vocationalisation of education.

There are many C.B.S.E affiliated school in Tarn Taran but before 2012 there was no common platform where the Principals of these schools could formally meet and share their experience with each other. It was a long felt need of these schools that there should be some mechanism so that the Principals of these schools might interact and the students of these schools should also get a chance to show their talents and skills in games, sports and co-curricular activities. This vision ultimately resulted into the birth of Sri Guru Arjun Dev Sahodaya Tarn Taran in 2012 with Eleven schools becoming its members. The aim was to have maximum co-operation among these schools to nurture and draw out the hidden potential of the students in games, sports and Co-Curricular Activities. Keeping this in view many competitions and events such as Athletics Meet, Children’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Science Carnival Competition, CCE Teachers Training Program, G.K. Quiz, Essay writing competition, Painting Competition, Pot Decoration Competition, Folk Song Competition, Patriotic Songs Competition, Mimicry Competition, Poetry Competition, Slogan Writing Competition, Mehandi Competition, Hindi Story Narrating Competition etc. are held under SGAD Tarn Taran.
In a short span of time SGAD Sahodaya Tarn Taran has become a close knit family. The member schools have extend their faculty help to other member schools. Thus Sri Guru Arjun Dev Sahodaya Tarn Taran introduces the relevance of co-operative learning and collaborate networking.
The CBSE board as leader and change agent in schooling needs to move from opposition of exclusive education to inclusive education to bridge the gap between different segments of student population. The Central Board of Secondary Education has believed in the concept of caring and sharing which is the spirit that symbolizes the Sahodaya Movement and the Sri Guru Arjun Dev Sahodaya Tarn Taran is reflecting the same spirit.