Hyderabad Public School
| The Hyderabad Public School ద హైదరాబాద్ పబ్లిక్ స్కూల్ | |
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Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana India | |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1923 |
| Principal | Ramandeep Kaur Samra |
| Faculty | 120 |
| Enrollment | 2800 (1-12) |
| Campus | 169 acres |
| Color(s) | Blue and gold |
| Website | Official website |
The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet or HPS, Begumpet is a privately funded public school in Hyderabad in the state of Telangana.The School is managed by the Society and the Board of Governors.The HPS Society has currently 3 branches at Begumpet, Ramanthapur (The Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur) and Kadapa
Earlier known as Jagirdar College, it was established in 1923 as a school exclusively for the sons of jagirdars and other aristrocats. It was renamed as Hyderbad Public School in 1951 after Zamindari system was abolished in 1950.[1] It is on a160-acre (0.65 km2) campus with buildings ranging from the modern to the Qutub Shahi style of architecture.
Children are schooled from the primary stage through to the 12th standard (age 3 to age 17). The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certification Examinations (ICSE, ISC). Its administrative body is the Hyderabad Public School Society.
Notable alumni
- Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation[2]
- Shantanu Narayen, Chief Executive Officer, Adobe Systems
- T K Kurien, Chief Executive Officer, Wipro[3]
- Preetish Nijhawan, Co-founder of Akamai Technologies
- Sridhar Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at Carnegie Mellon University; founder, SmartOps and OrganJet
- Harish Rao, Qualcomm
- Kiran Kumar Reddy, Member, HPS Society, 16th Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Akbaruddin Owaisi, M.L.A. (Chandrayangutta, Hyderabad) - Leader of AIMIM in Legislative Assembly, Telangana.
- Asaduddin Owaisi, M.P.(Hyderabad), President of A.I.M.I.M.
- Harsha Bhogle, journalist and cricket commentator
- Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu cinema Actor
- K. Hari Prasad, CEO, Apollo Hospitals
- Ramendra Kumar, Writer
- Talat Aziz, Ghazal Singer
- Prem Watsa, Chairman, CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings, Canada
- Yarlagadda Sumanth Kumar, Telugu cinema Actor
- Rana Daggubati, Telugu cinemaActor
- Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Chairman, Cobra Beer
- Bapi Raju Kanumuri, Member of Parliament (Narasapuram), Lok Sabha
- G. Vivek, Ex- Member of Parliament (Peddapalli, Karimnagar District, TS), Lok Sabha
- Pallam Raju, Minister of Human Resource Development, M.P.(Kakinada), Lok Sabha
- Nawab Mir Khutubuddin Khan, Secretary Nasr School
- Venkatapathy Raju, HPS, cricketer, played for Hyderabad and India
- Ignatius John, President Alpha Omega Financial Systems
- Ajay Kumar, Lok Sabha MP from Jamshedpur, Retd. IPS Officer, Trained Doctor.
- Umesh Chandra, IPS Officer.
- Dhiraj Handa, SVP & GM, Spansion.
- Nikhil Chinapa, MTV VJ
- Kamal Duggirala, CEO of Barra, Alpha Omega Financial Systems
- Diana Hayden, Miss World 1997, Femina Miss India
- Anil Raj, CEO Ericsson Ltd.
- Tahseen Mirza, PhD, MBA, Deputy Office Director, United States Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC
- Shilpa Reddy, Designer, Model
- Vivek Oberoi, Bollywood Actors
- Rajiv Chilaka, Founder & MD, Green Gold Animation
- Poonam Kaur, Actress, Model
- Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Member of Parliament ([Vijayanagaram])
- YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Opposition Party Leader AP, President YSR Congress
- Sanmay Ved, Purchased Google.com from Google in September 2015.[4] Donated Google's reward to charity.[5]
House system
The student body is divided into four houses named after famous institutions and universities in India.
- Nagarjuna-Red
- Taxila-Green
- Nalanda-Blue
- Vijayanagar-Yellow
Competitions and events
Annual Competitions and Events are organized
Sports Day - November or December
Concert/ Eagle's Fest - December
Music Day - June or July
Annual Day
Facilities
The 160 acre school has many buildings and grounds.
- The Primary block- Holds 1-5 classes.
- The Shaheen or the assembly hall- Holds 11th and 12th classes, inter-house and inter-school competitions occur here.
- The Durand or the middle school block- Holds 6th and 7th classes.
- The Senior or the Science block- Holds 8th and 9th classes besides the computers, biology, chemistry and physics labs.
- The New Science block- Holds 10th class.
- The Administrative block- Administration.
- The boarding house- Holds the students who stay back in school.
- The dining hall- A huge dining hall which can hold around 1400 students at once.
- The parking lot- Can accommodate up to 5000 cars at once.
- The School also has 17 football fields along with four outdoor basketball grounds.
- The school also provides students with 6 clay tennis courts.
- The principal's bungalow where the principal stays
- A library,art,SUPW and music room
- Along with this the school has many volleyball, basketball and hockey fields not to mention a huge stadium(Bigger than the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket stadium, Hyderabad) where cricket is played.
References
- ↑ "Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet". My-Telugu.com. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ↑ Satya Nadella: Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise
- ↑ T K Kurien: CEO, Wipro Ltd
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/google-rewarded-the-guy-who-bought-googlecom-2015-10
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