Delhi Public School Society

The Delhi Public School Society (DPS) is a large group of private schools in India. The descriptor "public school" references the model of the long-established English public school.

Delhi Public School Society
Location
India
Information
School typePrivate
Motto"Service before self"
Established1949 (1949)
ChairmanVaishnavi Atri
Key peopleB.K. Chaturvedi, Namita Pradhan
MascotTorch
AffiliationsCBSE
Websitedpsfamily.org

The Delhi Public School Society is the administrative authority for all its institutions in India and abroad. It is located on delhi meerut highway.[1]

History

The first school connected to the Delhi Public School Mathura Road was established in 1949.The foundation stone of the school building was laid in 1956 by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the then Vice President of India.[2]

Accreditation

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) provides the accreditation for all schools within this society except for DPS New Town, Kolkata; DPS Mega City, Kolkata; and DPS International, Singapore. DPS International, Saket, New Delhi, is affiliated with IGCSE,[3] while DPS New Town, Kolkatta; DPS Mega City, Kolkatta; and DPS International, Singapore, are all affiliated with the ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education).

Schools
Further information: List of Delhi Public School Society schools

Notable alumni

Academia and business

Government and bureaucracy
  • Raghuram Rajan – 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
  • Pravesh Verma – member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly for Mehrauli
  • Vinod Khanna -was the MP from the Gurdaspur constituency between 1998–2009 and 2014–2017. In July 2002, Khanna became the minister for Culture and Tourism in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet. Six months later, he became the Minister of State for external affairs.

TV and print media

Film industry


Sports

You Tube

Controversy

The Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, courted controversy when a sexually explicit video involving two of its class XI students went viral in 1999.[7]

gollark: Sounds like a YouTube bug.
gollark: Why hand-draw stuff when you can probably just ??? neural networks now?
gollark: ↓ you
gollark: So it won't be able to use the "opera" "VPN".
gollark: Torrenting is done with an external torrent client, which is not in fact in your browser probably.

References
  1. , www.dpsfamily.org, accessed 16 May 2011
  2. Ajay Kumar Sharma. A History of Educational Institutions in Delhi. Sanbun Publishers. pp. 286–. ISBN 978-93-80213-14-9.
  3. "Delhi Public School Society - Accredition". DPS Society. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  4. "Catch the MTV Youth Icons". mid-day.com.
  5. "Mahesh Babu and Kriti Sanon in 1 Nenokkadine". gallery.oneindia.in.
  6. "Joyride on the ramp". The Hindu. 9 October 2003. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  7. "Scandal in school shakes up Delhi". The Telegraph. 26 November 2004. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
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