Delhi Public School Ghaziabad
| Delhi Public School Ghaziabad DPSG | |
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| Address | |
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Site No. 3, Meerut Road Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh India | |
| Information | |
| Motto | Tamso Ma Jyotirgamaya |
| Established | 1980 |
| Founder | Shri Om Pathaki |
| School board | CBSE |
| Principal | Jyoti Gupta |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Average class size | 40 |
| Language | English, Hindi, French, Sanskrit, German, Japanese, Spanish,Chinese |
| Campus size | 25 acres (100,000 m2) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Houses | Cauvery, Ganga, Jhelum, Ravi, Satluj, Yamuna, Godavari. |
| Sports | Cricket, basket ball, football, handball, table tennis, lawn tennis, volleyball. |
| Yearbook | Dhruv |
| Website | http://www.dpsghaziabad.com/ |
Delhi Public School Ghaziabad (DPSG) is a private educational institution in Ghaziabad, India, established in 1980. The school has ranked the best in the city of Ghaziabad, and amongst the best in Delhi-NCR and the country.[1][2][3][4] It was ranked the third best day school in India, in terms of academic reputation by the EW Day Schools Survey, 2011.[5] In the early 2000s, DPSG became the first school in the National Capital Region and western Uttar Pradesh districts to receive an ISO certification. The school is built on 15 acres (61,000 m2) of land, and features an enrollment of 3000.[6]
History
Delhi Public School Ghaziabad was conceived and founded by Mr. Om Pathak, the then District Magistrate of Ghaziabad in 1980 with support from Sh. Dharamvira and Lt. Colonel Dr. GPS Waraich, the then Principal of DPS, Mathura Road.
The Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society was promoted and registered under the Presidency of Sh. Dharamvira, the then president of the Delhi Public School Society, New Delhi with Sh. Naresh Bajaj, Sh. Om Pathak, Lt. Colonel Sadhu Singh, Sh. R.K. Agarwal, and Lt. Col. Dr. GPS Waraich as members.
The present Society has Padamshree Sh. Satish Kaura as President, Sh. H.L. Goel as Vice President, Sh. Naresh Bajaj as Chairman, Sh. Om Pathak as Vice Chairman, Sh. V.P. Kaura as Secretary and Sh. R.K. Agarwal as Treasurer.
The school commenced operations in a hired building in Raj Nagar on 5 September 1980. The foundation stone of the new building was laid by Sh. Dharamvira, on the 19th of April, 1981 and soon thereafter, the school shifted to its present locale. The school has made steady progress over the past 28 years. Since its affiliation to the CBSE in 1985, 21 batches of class XII have passed through the portals of the school. DPSG is the first school in NCR to get ISO 9001:2000 certification by the international body Det Norske Veritas.
In the past three decades the school has established its own identity at the National and International level. In the year 1999 another branch of DPSG was set up in Vasundhara- a beautiful school, which has created a place for itself within the vicinity.
With an aim to serve the under privileged in society, The DPSG Disha has started its operations in Noor Nagar, Ghaziabad in the year 2009.
The DPSG International, set up in the year 2008, is a new project of the Society which will cater to international standards of education. The Society is in the process of expanding further in order to reach out to a larger group of residents of Ghaziabad and areas in the vicinity, fulfilling the vision and mission to which the society and school stand committed. "
Conceived and promoted in July 1980 by Mr. Om Pathak (IAS) in partnership with DPS Society, Delhi then presided over by Mr. Dharmvira, ICS, the former governor of Karnataka and West Bengal. Delhi Public School Ghaziabad society is now poised for a major leap of leadership in the school education domain. In setting up its first school in September 1980, the society has now grown three mostadmired schools and would aim at around 50 new schools in various formats in the next few years. The Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society was conceived and founded by Mr. Om Pathak, IAS, with support from Sh. Dharamvira, the then President of Delhi Public Society and Lt. Colonel [Retd] Dr. GPS Waraich, the then Principal of DPS, Mathura Road, New Delhi. Col. Sadhu Singh was the first Secretary and Principal of DPSG, Meerut Road,Ghaziabad
Campus
The school is housed in three buildings, the Senior School building, the Junior School building and Admin. The Junior School runs classes from Pre-Nursery to Class V, the Secondary School from Class VI to Class X and the Senior Secondary School from Class XI to XII.
Senior School facilities include science laboratories, library, computer network, Internet and LCD labs.
The school has city-wide transportation services for its students and teachers. The sports infrastructure includes a basketball court, cricket/football field, and badminton courts. The school has a 1000+ capacity coliseum and a 150+ capacity open-air amphitheatre for cultural events. Two air-conditioned auditoriums are for small-scale events. There are campus-wide wireless networks, and the classrooms are smartclass-enabled. Every teacher has been provided with a laptop from the school.
The 15-acre (61,000 m2) campus is divided into three wings: primary (grades nursery-five), secondary (grades six-ten) and senior secondary (grades eleven-twelve). The junior or primary wing has another subdivision—the Early Childhood Education wing (or Starz)—for classes nursery to one.
In the library Indian and foreign journals, magazines and newspapers are subscribed to. New books and CDs are added to the library every year.
Activity Blocks include Senior Activity Block houses Science Laboratories, Computer Lab and LCD Lab. The Junior Activity Block has six rooms for activities like art, sculpture, dance, and music.
Playgrounds
The school has a sports complex on the campus which includes a play ground, two hard court and four turf cricket pitches for net practice and three main pitches for the matches. 400 metre 8 lane track, four basketball, two handball, two tennis courts, a skating rink, a hockey ground, an indoor table tennis facility and two gymnasiums. The school holds annual tournaments in football, cricket and basketball in which school teams from all over India participate.
Sports and traditions
Each wing holds events and functions. The annual function of the primary wing—Kiddofest—has been held since 1997. The secondary and senior secondary wings attend an annual "cultural extravaganza" held in either October or November. The school theatre club—Rang Chhaya—is active all year to support these functions. In addition to school functions, Rang Chhaya has won several zonal- and national-level events. The Inter Public School (IPS) debate was started in 1990. The annual sports festival is held during the first week of December, along with the prize-distribution evening. The school has hosted national level sporting events.
The school organizes three major functions during the year which encourages 100% participation of children - Annual Function (for classes VI to IX), Kiddofest (Annual Function of Primary wing) and Annual Prize Distribution every year. Apart from these the school also organizes inter-house competitions in cultural, literary and sports activities. The school band "SOULS" performs at the major events and functions of the school.
The school has seven houses named after seven important rivers of India, viz.- Ganga, Ravi, Cauvery, Jhelum, Sutlej, Yamuna and Godavri.
Technology
The school provides laptops for each teacher, and an interactive board with LCD projector in each classroom, computer laboratories, LCD rooms, 24-hour connectivity and its own website.
DPSG is the first school to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) which is a school management and resource planning solution.
The school has an e-Library which is equipped with computers and a server which connects it to the libraries of the world. The students and staff give a request to the E-Librarian for a topic, and information is made available to them immediately.
Academics
The school offers foreign languages like Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish. The school publishes an annual magazine 'DHRUV' and newsletters. Students write articles in Hindi and English for publication in thee DHRUV.
Values The school organizes inter-house competitions in debating, declamation and recitation both in Hindi and English. Quiz competitions are held. The school promotes students' participation in these activities at the inter-school, state and national Level. Founder's Day Inter-public School Debate in English is a popular feature in the vicinity, schools from Delhi, NCR and neighbouring states participate in it.
References
- ↑ "DPS Ghaziabad Sports to the top". Hindustan Times. 12/10/2009. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Patnaik, Abhijit (20 September 2012). "Here Come the New Contenders: Top 20 Schools of Delhi and NCR" (PDF). Hindustan Times.
- ↑ "EW India's Best Day Schools League Table" (PDF). Education World Online.
- ↑ "EW India's Best Day Schools Survey, 2011" (PDF).
- ↑ "EW India's Best Day Schools Survey, 2011" (PDF).
- ↑ "DPS Ghaziabad sports to the top". Hindustan Times. 2009-11-11.
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Coordinates: 28°39′28″N 77°22′14″E / 28.6578°N 77.3705°E