Delhi Public School, Farakka

ndation for this school. The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi and offers courses in Commerce and Science. It imparts knowledge to students from Standard I to Standard XII. It is one of the oldest CBSE schools of West Bengal and the first school set up by D.P.S. Society in West Bengal. The school has a 5 acre campus at the far end of the township and is well connected to the nearby townships. The NTPC management provides school buses without any charges for all its employees' children. The Farakka Barrage Project management also provides buses for commuting likewise. There is a basketball court and a large playground (where students play cricket and football). The playground is also used to host the annual sports competition and practices for the March Past ceremony held every year on Independence Day and Republic day. The school inherited the Nabarun Point building in 1992, which is characterized by a large open section in the middle where daily morning assemblies are held apart from other functions during the Teacher’s day. There is an auditorium where all the inter house competitions are held. Throughout the year, numerous inter-house competitions are organized and the houses are awarded points based on the results achieved by the students. Representatives for the school in Inter-school events are selected based on how the students perform at the house-level. Apart from competitions, an art and craft exhibition is organized each year and usually inaugurated by a professor from the Government Art College, Kolkata. They have free access to Internet, well-equipped computer/physics/chemistry and biology/bio-technology laboratories, and a well-stocked library.DPS Farakka became the winner of ESPN SPORTS QUIZ 2002 hosted by Harsha Bhogle. Suvojit Chakraborty and Rahul Mukherjee had represented DPS Farakka in the quiz.