Bordered by the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and covering an area of 1,484 sq. km, the Union territory of Delhi popularly known as Delhi NCT (national capital territory), which includes the country’s administrative capital New Delhi‚ is a bustling megalopolis with a cosmopolitan and global character. The seat of India’s Central government, judiciary, and diplomatic corps and a hub of trade, culture and literature, Delhi NCT hosts the headquarters of several of India’s blue-chip real estate, agrochemicals, retail, IT/ITES and manufacturing industries and chalked up a GSDP (gross state domestic product) growth rate of 8.81 percent in 2018-19. It also hosts 18 billionaires and 23,000 millionaires making it the country’s second wealthiest city after Mumbai.
Although Delhi is also the world’s most polluted city according to the World Health Organisation, its annual per capita income is Rs.3.65 lakh, three times the national average (Rs.1.25 lakh) and it hosts a large number of young professionals with school-going children. Therefore, there is continuously rising demand for quality preschool to higher education in the national capital.
Apart from hosting vintage schools such as Springdales School, Pusa Road (estb.1968), The Mother’s International School (1956) and Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (1957), and Cambridge School, Srinivaspuri (1931), several latter day greenfield schools have also sprouted in Delhi NCT including Maxfort, Sri Venkateswara International School and Nirmal Bhartia. Higher education and research institutions in Delhi NCT include Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Technological University, National Law University and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, among others.
Delhi which is also a state of the Indian Union, is governed by the new genre Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which allocated an unprecedented 26 percent of its 2019-20 budget for public education. Unsurprisingly, the annual per child education expenditure in Delhi state at Rs.51,745 is way above the national average (Rs.13,974).
Nirmal Bhartia School, Dwarka, New Delhi
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Mother’s Global School, Preet Vihar, Delhi
Mother’s Global School, Delhi is a coeducational, English medium school promoted in 1984. MGS is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi and offers classes from kindergarten to XI… more
Founded in 2006, Mother Mary’s School, New Delhi is a girls’ day school affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. It imparts education from nursery… more
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