The Delhi government has inaugurated a Rs 33.27-crore government school campus in Dwarka’s Sector 16B and announced education infrastructure upgrades worth around Rs 700 crore across technical and higher education institutions.
Education Minister Ashish Sood inaugurated the Government Girls and Co-ed Senior Secondary School on Monday. The campus, spread across 8,000 square metres, has capacity for 2,000 students and includes 75 classrooms, 12 smart classrooms, an information and communication technology laboratory with 40 computers, language laboratories and specialised science laboratories.
The school has also been equipped with ramps and lifts for children with special needs, as well as rainwater harvesting systems. Its facilities are intended to expand access to government education in one of West Delhi’s growing residential areas, while providing dedicated spaces for digital and science-based learning.
The inauguration was accompanied by the minister’s announcement of a wider infrastructure programme for technical and higher education. The package includes a new polytechnic building, advanced manufacturing facilities, faculty offices and a girls’ hostel at Netaji Subhas University of Technology. The government said the combined investment in these works would be around Rs 700 crore.
Sood also announced plans to upgrade industrial training institutes in Narela, Hari Nagar and Shahdara into Centres of Excellence. He said the government would soon launch the Delhi Skill Mission, which is intended to connect vocational training with job placements. The announcement places the city’s technical education infrastructure alongside school expansion as part of the government’s education agenda.
The minister further referred to a proposed Rs 400-crore Startup Policy, which the government says will support 10,000 startups and generate four lakh jobs. The report did not provide details on the policy’s implementation timeline, funding structure or institutional responsibilities.
The education minister used the occasion to criticise the previous Aam Aadmi Party administration’s education model, describing it as a “PR gimmick”. He questioned whether visits by foreign dignitaries to government schools during the previous regime produced documented institutional learning or led to the adoption of educational best practices. These remarks were part of the political framing of the new government’s infrastructure plans.
The government also highlighted the Vidya Vahini Yojana, under which more than 25,000 free bicycles have been distributed to female students. Digital learning infrastructure is additionally being expanded across government schools, although the report did not specify the number of schools covered or the allocation for that component.
The Dwarka campus brings together several infrastructure features that are increasingly central to public-school construction in Delhi: larger classroom capacity, digital facilities, specialised laboratories, accessibility provisions and water-management systems. The next stages of the wider programme will depend on the execution of the announced upgrades, the launch of the Delhi Skill Mission and the formal rollout of the proposed Startup Policy.
