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Institution Profile

ITL Public School, Dwarka

Ranked among the national capital’s Top 15 co-ed day schools in the EW India School
Rankings 2022-23, ITLPS' focus on balanced holistic education has paid off by way of
excellent CBSE board exam results
AUTAR NEHRU

ITED ON A VERDANT
campus in west Delhi’s rap-
idly gentrifying suburb of
SDwarka, ITL Public School
(ITLPS, estb.2001) has built itself a
formidable reputation for providing
holistic education to its 2,600 boys
and girls mentored by 130 well-qual-
ified and enthusiastic teachers. It has
been awarded the British Council’s
International School Award in 2015
and again in 2019. More recently this
CBSE-affiliated fully air-conditioned
K-12 school was ranked among India’s
Top 50 and the national capital’s Top
15 co-ed day schools in the EW India
School Rankings 2022-23.
Promoted under the aegis of the
Delhi-based Vasudeva Education
Foundation Society driven by found-
ers of ITL Finlease & Securities Ltd ITLPS campus: holistic education goal
and designed by a coterie of experi-
enced principals including Shomie cipal in 2011. Olympics size swim-
Das, former principal of Mayo College, An economics alumna ming pool, a synthetic
Ajmer and Dr. R.S. Lugani, founder- of Utkal University, Bhu- seasonal turf ground for
principal of DPS, R.K. Puram, ITLPS baneswar, Acharya acquired cricket, football, and vol-
encompasses a green four-acre cam- over three decades of valu- leyball, basketball, tennis
pus. It comprises two conjoined able teaching and admin and badminton courts.
three-storeyed academic towers and experience in DPS, Mathura Training in martial arts,
a separate two-storeyed kindergarten Road among other reputed roller skating, table ten-
block supported by state-of-the-art education institutions. Dr. Sudha Acharya nis, chess, carrom, table
infrastructure. By all yardsticks this soccer and yoga is also on
“ITLPS is built on the foundation school’s academic infrastructure is the menu.
of our motto — Integrity, Truth and impressive. Its academic towers house In keeping with its commitment to
Learning. Our mission is to develop 72 spacious and well-ventilated Smart provide children integrated holistic
into an inclusive school which will classrooms, 15 laboratories (Atal Tin- education, the school management
teach children to give rather than re- kering, science, maths, computer strongly encourages co-curricular
ceive, and become involved with their science, fashion, skill, psychology, education. ITLPS’ rich co-curricular
communities. After Covid hit India in career, art and English), a 300-seats menu includes photography, music,
March 2020 forcing mass shutdown auditorium and two well-stocked li- art, dance, dramatics, tourism, inno-
of education institutions countrywide, braries for junior and senior students vation and entrepreneurship among
we swiftly swung into action to set up with an aggregate 20,000 print vol- other activities. The Student Council
a 24X7 helpline and even helped par- umes and 45 journal subscriptions. empowers students with leadership
ents to master digital skills,” recalls Perhaps a shade less but never- skills; a “buddy program” binds se-
Dr. Sudha Acharya, a highly quali- theless impressive, is ITLPS’ sports nior and junior students together to
fied special educator, appointed prin- infrastructure. The school has an check bullying and develop conflict

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