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Institution Profile

Bal Bharati Public School

GRH Marg, Delhi

Promoted over eight decades ago in pre-independence India, BBPS-GRH is ranked among
the national capital's Top 10 co-ed day schools in the EW India School Rankings 2024-25

PAROMITA SENGUPTA
PREAD ACROSS TWO
contemporary campuses
aggregating 6.37 green
Sacres, the Bal Bharati Public
School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg,
Delhi (BBPS-GRH, estb.1944) has
established a good reputation in the
national capital for providing holis-
tic, values-based, culturally rooted
K-12 education to its 5,000 students
instructed by 205 teachers. In the
latest EW India School Rankings
2024-25, this co-educational school
affiliated with the Central Board
of Secondary Education (CBSE) is
ranked among Delhi’s Top 10 and
India’s Top 20 co-ed day schools.
Last year, Bal Bharati was also
adjudged the country’s #1 Social and
Emotional Learning Leader by an
EW Grand Jury. BBPS-GRH campus: progressive, child-centric pedagogy pride. Inset: Laksh V Sehgal
While BBPS-GRH’s main (class V-
XII) campus is sited on Ganga Ram thinking skills to address the chal- of NEP 2020. “Currently, our thrust
Hospital Marg in Central Delhi, the lenges of an ever-evolving world. areas are structured reading and
junior school (preschool-class IV) is With deep commitment to lifelong development programs through an
sited on Pusa Road. learning and the cultivation of integ- active Newspapers in Education
Promoted over eight decades ago rity, our goal is to shape individuals program; skills education — AI, fi-
in pre-independence India by vision- who are as compassionate as they nancial literacy, coding, travel, front
ary educationists and philanthropists are capable, ready to contribute office management, and tourism —
of the time under the aegis of Child with vision, resilience, and wisdom ensuring students’ socio-emotional
Education Society (CES, regstd. to the development of our nation wellness through life skills training;
1944) — which currently runs and and global society,” says Laksh Vir value education, plus a formal Hap-
manages 26 BBPS schools country- Sehgal, a physics and education piness curriculum,” he adds.
wide — the flagship BBPS-GRH was alum of Punjabi University, Patiala, The school’s progressive educa-
established with the dual purpose of who acquired three decades of teach- tion philosophy and student-centric
providing affordable, quality educa- ing and admin experience (Sainik pedagogies have paid off hand-
tion and preserving India’s cultural School, Kapurthala, and PML SD somely. BBPS-GRH students have
heritage. Since then over the past Public School, Chandigarh) prior to consistently excelled in academics.
80 years the school has graduated taking charge as principal of BBPS- Of the 344 students who wrote the
notable alumni including bureau- GRH in 2000. Moreover, he was CBSE class X board exam in Febru-
crats, scientists, businessmen, film appointed Joint Secretary of CES 17 ary 2024, 55 averaged above 90
directors and musicians. years ago. percent with toppers Abeer Chawla
“At BBPS-GRH, our mission is to Unsurprisingly, the school’s man- and Navya Bhardwaj scoring 97.2
nurture leaders equipped with strong agement prides itself on its progres- percent. Likewise, of the 295 stu-
moral and ethical values combined sive, child-centric and inquiry-driven dents who wrote the CBSE class XII
with creative ingenuity and critical pedagogy aligned with the mandates board exam, 79 students averaged

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