Education in Delhi

Education in Delhi is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions. The city's public school system, the Delhi Directorate of Education, is one of the largest in Indian cities, and Delhi is home to some of the most important libraries, universities, and research centers in the South Asia. The NCT region is particularly known as a center for research in technology and the information technology in India. Education in Delhi has seen a tremendous growth over the last few years with new colleges and research institutes being established in Delhi. Delhi has always been the education hub of India with the track record of producing great talents. Delhi has universities, colleges, schools that compete with the top in the country. The quality education imparted among the youth has resulted in better and efficient work force with great minds working forth towards making a rising economy of Delhi. These educational institutes provide a building block for nation's development. Several educationalists have praised the quality of education in Delhi. Delhi offers good educational facilities for primary, secondary and higher education. Delhi is fast developing as a technical education hub of India which is quite vivid from the number of engineering and management institutes in Delhi that have emerged in the span of five years. University of Delhi and JNU have always attracted research scholars from all parts of the world. Delhi offers hostels and accommodation facilities to foreign students who come for research and other educational purposes.

Education Department of NCT Delhi Government is the governing body which looks into the educational affairs in the city. There are some other private bodies that run educational institutes abiding by the norms and permission of the government. Arvinder Singh Lovely is the current minister of education of Delhi.

Delhi has to its credit some of the premier institutions like the Indian Institute of Technology, National Institute of Technology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the National Institute of Fashion Technology, AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre under Jamia Millia Islamia University, and the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

As per the 2011 census, Delhi has a literacy rate of :86.3% with 91.0% of males and 80.9% of females in Delhi being literate.

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