Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, also known as DPS R K Puram or DPS RKP, is a private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

 secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 run by the Delhi Public School Society

Delhi Public School Society

Delhi Public School Society is one of the largest institutions providing education at school level in India. It has a large number of schools under its aegis in India and abroad. The Delhi Public School Society, a non-profit body, is the administrative authority for all the institutions under its...

 in Rama Krishna Puram, New Delhi

New Delhi

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, India

India

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. It is a co-educational day and boarding school with around 12,000 students spread across its three campuses. DPS RKP is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education

Central Board of Secondary Education

The Central Board of Secondary Education is a Board of Education for public and private schools, under the Union Government of India.-History:...

 (CBSE), the Indian Public Schools' Conference (IPSC) and the National Progressive Schools' Conference (NPSC).

History

DPS R K Puram was the second school founded by the Delhi Public School Society, the first being the Delhi Public School at Mathura Road

Mathura Road, Delhi

Mathura Road is a road in Delhi, a part of the NH 2 Highway, and leading right up to the holy town of Mathura, the birthplace of Lord Krishna....

. The DPS in RK Puram was established in 1972 by Mr. R. S. Lugani. While remaining part of the DPS Society, the school at R.K. Puram soon became independent of its parent.

Campus

The student body comprises day scholars and boarding students. Accommodation is provided to more than 400 boarding students within the on-site girls' hostel and the boys' millennium hostel - located across the road on the school's sports campus. The boys' millennium hostel was opened in 2000. The millennium hostel is headed by Dr. Daulat Ram Saini.

The school's facilities include two libraries that house approximately 50,000 books in the senior library, and 10,000 books in the junior library; a reading room; a video library; school counseling centres; an audio-visual hall; an air-conditioned Seminar Hall, and a bookshop. The school has laboratories for computing, Shogun, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, language, robotics and mathematics.

The Sports Complex has facilities for volley ball, cricket, football and golf, basketball, squash, lawn tennis, table tennis and badminton courts. It also comprises three swimming pools, two gymnasiums and two lawn bowls

Bowls

Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls so that they stop close to a smaller "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven...

 field.

Achievements

On 29 August 2002 during the "1st Computer Literacy Excellence Awards for Schools", President A. P. Jl. Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam usually referred to as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is a renowned aerospace engineer, professor , and first Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram , who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007...

 presented an award to Dr. (Mrs.) Shyama Chona, the former Principal of DPS R K Puram. The award was for the Best School at the State (Delhi) Level and the 2nd runner-up for the entire country. In 2008, Dr. (Mrs.) Shyama Chona received the Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...

 award.

In 2003 DPS R K Puram were the recipients of the United Nations

United Nations

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Global Leadership Opportunity and as a result in 2007 the school was invited to host the 2007 Global Classrooms international programme.

Community endeavours include:

• DPS Shiksha Kendra - an afternoon non-profit school for slum children.
• Open Learning School
• Tamana Special School, a school for the education of physically and mentally handicapped children.
• Prateek Pratap Singh ( 2011 batch) has been awarded Gold Standard in International Award For Young People in Sep 2011.

Notable alumni

Ankit fadida - software specialist(notable hacker and Wikipedia writer)