Delhi government planning to set up residential school for orphans backward class and minority students

Updated on: Saturday, February 02, 2013

Delhi government has decided to set up a residential school for orphans and students from SC, ST, OBC and minorities at Ishapur area of West Delhi.

The school will be modelled on Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneshwar, which is considered as the biggest residential institute in South Asia imparting education to students from kindergarten to post graduate level involving around 10,000 tribal students.

A decision to set up the school was taken at a meeting of the Delhi Cabinet presided by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. The school would be run by KISS. Dikshit had visited KISS in 2011 and felt a similar school should be opened in Delhi.

Officials said the school will impart education to 1,200 students and it would have classes from 1st to 12th standard. The age of admission in Class I would be six years.

The city government would every month spend Rs 5,000 per child for five years. Afterwards, the KISS would take care of all the expenses.

The KISS will operate, maintain and manage the school for a period of 15 years on no profit, no loss basis. A governing body headed by the Delhi Chief Secretary will take major policy decisions pertaining to the CBSE-affiliated school.

Officials said financial grant will be provided to students from families whose annual income does not exceed Rs one lakh.

Delhi government planning to set up residential school for orphans backward class and minority students

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