Being run in the name of Jain Acharya Shri Atam Ram Ji, it is not just Jainism that the students of Atam Public Senior Secondary School, Atam Nagar, are preached. In fact, on every day of the week, the students listen to a prayer from different religion. It is Gurbani on Mondays, bhajans from the Bhagavadgita on Tuesday, Mahavir bhajans on Wednesday, and so on, and finally ‘Eh malik tere bande hum’ on Saturdays. A group of students recite these hymns from a permanent stage and the students, standing in their classrooms, listen to these through the speakers installed in each corridor. For such reasons, the school gets students from all religions and the percentage of children from Jain families is just 1 of the total school strength which is nearly 3000. Unlike other Jain schools in the city, this school has medical stream for the students of class XI and XII where the students learn dissections as per the syllabus. To refrain children from playing outside in hot summer afternoons, the school has set up four halls for indoor games and other activities. Besides, there are other activities such as vocal music, instrumental music, dance, painting and craft. Certainly, the school that started as a nursery school in the year 1973 has now come up in a big way.
