Delhi Public School Society
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| Delhi Public School Society | |
|---|---|
| File:Delhi Public School Logo.png | |
| Location | |
| Information | |
| School type | Private |
| Motto | Service Before Self |
| Established | 1949 |
| Key people | V.K. Shunglu |
| Mascot | Torch |
| Affiliations | CBSE |
| Website | dpsfamily |
Delhi Public School Society, also called DPS is one of the largest chain of private schools established in India and abroad. It controls many schools in India and abroad. There are around 9000 students in Nacharam branch Hyderabad. The Delhi Public School Society is the administrative authority for all the institutions under its banner. Some of the schools are also affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in New Delhi.[1]
There are 500 plus private schools in India and other countries with the largest schools located at Dibrugarh, Dubai, Dhaligaon, Duliajan, Anantapur, Abohar, Baranagar, Raipur, Bilaspur, Agra, Guwahati, Srinagar, Numaligarh, Aurangabad, Saharanpur, Allahabad, Angul, Asansol, Bokaro, Bhopal, Bulandshahr, Bhilai, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Gwalior, Korba, Hyderabad, Indore,[2], Patiala, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Damanjodi, Bikaner, Gurdaspur, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Jalandhar, Dhanbad, Sonipat, Pune, Hathras, Bathinda, Farakka, R.K. Puram, Mathura Road, Mangalore, Ahmedabad, Patna, Vadodara, Rajkot, Gandhidham, Bhagalpur, Rohtak, Ranchi, Rourkela, Lucknow, Noida, Ghaziabad, Digboi, Meerut, Jodhpur, Jalandhar, Kanpur, Kolkata, Udaipur, Visakhapatnam, Yamuna Nagar, Dehradun, Durgapur, Navi Mumbai, Faridabad, Dwarka, Sitapur, Surat, Haridwar, Moradabad, and Vasant Kunj. Outside India there are schools in United Arab Emirates Dubai, Bahrain, Indonesia, Kuwait, Nepal (Birgunj, Dharan and Biratnagar), Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and Riyadh), Singapore, Uganda (Kampala) and Ghana (Accra) and Bangladesh (Dhaka).[3]
History
.[4][5] Delhi Public School Mathura Road was the first school established in 1949, In 1972 it was followed by Delhi Public School, RK Puram.
Accreditation
All the schools of the society are affiliated to CBSE except for DPS New Town, Kolkata, DPS Mega City, Kolkata and DPS International at Singapore which are affiliated to ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education), and DPS International, Saket, New Delhi and DPS International Singapore which are affiliated to IGCSE.[6]
List of schools
Notable alumni
 | This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (February 2019) |
Academia and business
- Harsh Chitale – CEO, HCL Infosystems
- Pawan Jain – founder, Mangalayatan University
- Rahul Arora – CEO at SR motors
- Priyamvada Natarajan – Professor of the Astronomy and Physics department of Yale University
- Raghuram Rajan - Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Government and bureaucracy
- Raghuram Rajan – 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Pravesh Verma – member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly for Mehrauli
TV and print media
- Ambika Anand – anchor, NDTV
- Ankit Fadia – bestselling author and host of MTV What the Hack[7]
- Mayank Shekhar – journalist and film critic
- Paaras Zutshi – winner of the reality show Superdude on UTV Bindass
- Shariq Us Sabah - best selling author
Film industry
- Ipsita Pati - Bollywood actress, Indian Princess, Miss Asia, Brand Ambassador of World Film Festival, USA and Philanthropist Ipsita Pati donated 42 Feet Height Statues of Lord Shiva and Parvati at Budhakhol, Buguda, Odisha.
- Kriti Sanon – Bollywood actress and model[8]
- Randeep Hooda – Bollywood actor
- Indrani Dasgupta – Bollywood actor and model[9]
- Shilpa Shukla – Bollywood actress, known for her work in the Indian Parallel Cinema
Music
Sports
- Unmukt Chand - professional cricketer
- Jayant Yadav - professional cricketer
- Yuki Bhambri - professional tennis player
Controversy
Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram courted controversy when a pornographic MMS video involving two of its class XI students went viral in 2004.[10] The two students involved were expelled.
References
- ^ [1], www.dpsfamily.org, accessed on 16 May 2011
- ^ Reech Leisure. "Delhi Public School - Indore". dps indore.org.
- ^ List of schools abroad on the Delhi Public School Society website Archived 2 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage - Cong listens to sole". telegraphindia.com.
- ^ Ajay Kumar Sharma. A History of Educational Institutions in Delhi. Sanbun Publishers. pp. 286–. ISBN 978-93-80213-14-9.
- ^ "Delhi Public School Society - Accredition". DPS Society. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ "Catch the MTV Youth Icons". mid-day.com.
- ^ "Mahesh Babu and Kriti Sanon in 1 Nenokkadine". gallery.oneindia.in.
- ^ "Joyride on the ramp". The Hindu. 9 October 2003. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Scandal in school shakes up Delhi". The Telegraph. 26 November 2004. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
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