The Delhi Public School Society or DPS Society is a chain of

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes comp ...

s. The descriptor "Public School" references the model of the long-established public schools in the United Kingdom. The Delhi Public School Society is the administrative authority for all its institutions in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and abroad.

History

The first school associated with the Delhi Public School Society was

Delhi Public School, Mathura Road Delhi Public School situated on Mathura Road in New Delhi, India, is a private co-educational day and boarding school with 6500+ students. It is run by the Delhi Public School Society and is a member of the Indian Public School Conference. ...

established in 1949. The foundation stone of the school building was laid in 1956 by

Vice President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...

S. Radhakrishnan.

Accreditation

The

Central Board of Secondary Education The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national level board of education in India for public and private schools, controlled and managed by the Government of India. Established in 1929 by a resolution of the government, the Board ...

(CBSE) provides accreditation for all schools in the society except for four; DPS

New Town, Kolkata New Town is a planned satellite city of Kolkata, India. It comes under North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is close to Kolkata and covered by New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA). HIDCO planned developi ...

; DPS Mega City, Kolkata; and DPS International, Singapore, are affiliated with the

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private board designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance wi ...

(ICSE), whilst DPS International, Saket, New Delhi, is affiliated with the

International General Certificate of Secondary Education The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an English language based examination similar to GCSE and is recognised in the United Kingdom as being equivalent to the GCSE for the purposes of recognising prior attainm ...

(IGCSE),

List of Schools

Core Schools

As of April 2022, there are 13 original or core branches of the Delhi Public School. The list of core schools is as follows: #

, New Delhi # Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, New Delhi # Delhi Public School, Sector-30,

Noida Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) o ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj (DPS Vasant Kunj or DPS VK) is a school located in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India. DPS Vasant Kunj offers academic services from Kindergarten through Grade XII. The school has a combined strength of 205 teachers a ...

, New Delhi # #

Delhi Public School, Faridabad Delhi Public School, Faridabad is a School in Sector 19, Faridabad, Haryana, India founded on 10 July 1995. History DPS Faridabad was founded by Shri U.S. Verma in 1995 at Sector 19, Faridabad. Infrastructure DPS Faridabad covers an area of 8 ...

, Haryana #

Delhi Public School, Greater Noida Delhi Public School, Greater Noida also known as DPS, Greater Noida is a K–12 co-ed English-medium school in Gamma II, Greater Noida and Uttar Pradesh, India. The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi ...

, Uttar Pradesh # Delhi Public School,

Bulandshahr Bulandshahr, formerly Baran, is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr district and part of Delhi NCR region. According to the Governmen ...

, Uttar Pradesh # Delhi Public School, Rohini, New Delhi # Delhi Public School, Dwarka, New Delhi # Delhi Public School,

Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai (), is a planned city situated on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, located in the Konkan division of Maharashtra state, on the mainland of India. Navi Mumbai is part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The city i ...

# Delhi Public School International, Saket # Delhi Public School, Knowledge Park-5 # Delhi Public School, Sector-122, Noida

Franchise school

As of April 2022, there are around 206 schools running under the DPS Society as

franchises Franchise may refer to: Business and law * Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business to franchisees * Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television ...

. These are not the core schools ones and are not managed directly by the DPS Society.

Controversy

Due to its legacy, good academic and extra curricular performance and alumni network, schools affiliated with the Delhi Public School Society are considered to be one of the best in India. This has given rise to situation where other schools not affiliated to the "Delhi Public School Society" have named and branded themselves as DPS schools. The first such case was that of the "Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society" which was started in collaboration with the Delhi Public School Society but later became a separate organisation, and currently runs a chain of eight schools. A court case was filed in 2002 in the

Delhi High Court The High Court of Delhi ( IAST: ''dillī uchcha nyāyālaya'') was established on 31 October 1966, through the ''Delhi High Court Act, 1966'', with four judges, Chief Justice K. S. Hegde, Justice I. D. Dua, Justice H. R. Khanna and Justice S ...

by the Delhi Public School Society against the Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. A second case, involved DPS alumni and society president

Salman Khurshid Salman Khurshid Alam Khan (born 1 January 1953) is an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, eminent author and a law teacher. He was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs. He belongs to the Indian National Congress. ...

, starting a parallel organisation DPS World Foundation to run schools under the name of DPS World Schools. Khurshid was thrown out of the DPS society and a case was filed against his foundation. The Supreme Court of India decided in favour of DPS society and DPS World Foundation changed its name to Delhi World Foundation and currently runs a chain of 60 schools named Delhi World Public Schools. The third such case was of the DPS Trust.The organisation based in Rohini, New Delhi offered franchises to open schools under the brand name of DPS in smaller cities. The Delhi High Court, on 16 December 2012, barred the ‘DPS Trust’ from using the name ‘DPS’ or its registered logo as well as the name Delhi Public School for running a school or education-related services. The trust was ordered to pay Rs 10 lakh as damages.

References

External links

* {{DPS Society aegis Non-profit organisations based in India Central Board of Secondary Education Educational organisations based in India Schools in Delhi 1949 establishments in India Educational institutions established in 1949