Synopsis on DC

Famous Alumni :

Dr. C. S. Ranawat (Medicine)
Dr. Sudhir Khetawat (Medicine)
Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand (Professor Pediatrics, Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Centre, USA)
Raj Singh Dungarpur (Cricket)
Hanumant Singh (Cricket)
Nawabzada Shahryar Muhammad Khan (Foreign Secretary & Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board)
Rohit Nagu (Financial Officer, International Cricket Council, Dubai)
Ranjan Dass (CEO SAP India)
Digvijaya Singh Raghogarh (Public Life)
Laxman Singh Raghogarh (Public Life)
Arun Yadav (Public Life)
Nagendra Singh Nagod (Member of Parliament)
Bhanu Prakash Singh Narsinghgarh (Former Central Minister & Governor of Goa)
Deepak Obhrai (Member of Canadian Parliament)
Dheeraj Bora (ISRO Scientist)
Mahima Gupta (Nuclear Scientist)
Dr. Amrita Tiwari (Nuclear Scientist)
Prof. Prabhat Patnaik (JNU)
Prof. Ashwin Naik ( Buffalo University)
Prof. Dinyar Godrej (Oxford)
Ram Pratap Singh (Administrative Service)
Vijayendra Ghatge (Actor)
Kiran Kumar ( Actor)
Bikram Saluja (Actor)
Rayman Saluja (Actor)
Vidhi Ghodgaonkar (Assistant Director, Films)
Vikram Modi (Head of Visa, Singapore)
Praveen Kankaria ( Impetus, Software Entrepreneur)
Rajeev Tipnis (Software Entrepreneur)
Vikram Rajadhyaksha (Entrepreneur)
Gajendra Singh Sareen (Founder & CEO, Omni Tyres, Singapore)
Yashowardhan Kauns (Art)
Ira Trivedi (Author)
Panni Patgaonkar (Architect & Interior Designer)
Sandeep Kothari (Fidelity, Asia)
Siddharth Sethi (Infobeans)

Patrons (since 1882) :

HE Lord Willington, Viceroy of India
HE Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India
HE Field Marshal, Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India
HE Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten, Viceroy of India
HH Maharaja Sir George Jivaji Rao Scindia of Gwalior
HH Maharajadhiraj Yeshwant RaoHolkar of Indore
HH Maharajadhiraj Martand Singh of Rewa
HH Maharaja Madhav Rao Scindia of Gwalior
HH Maharani Usha Devi Holkar of Indore
HH Maharajadhiraj Pushpendra Singh Ju Deo of Rewa
Raja Digvijaya Singh of Raghogarh
Shri Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
HH Maharaja Jyotiraditya Scindia of Gwalior

Academics :

Academic Results for 2014 have been excellent.
In class 10 :
15 students got a CGPA of 10
2 students got a CGPA of 9.8
7 students got a CGPA of 9.6
10 students got a CGPA of 9.4
10 students got a CGPA of 9.2 and
11 students got a CGPA of 9

Class 12 results were even better than the previous year: 136 students have got a distinction in all subjects. The subjects of which the averages go beyond 80 are :

Physical Education (92.3)
Fine Arts (90.9)
Computer Science (89.6)
Web Tech (88.5)
Political Science (88.1)
Chemistry (84.3)
Geography (84.2)
English (83.6)
Biology (82.8)
Economics (81.8)
Business Studies (81.5)
Entrepreneurship (81.4)

The Stream toppers were :

Astha Juneja - 96.4% (Commerce and School Topper)
Namrata Nair - 94.6% (Humanities)
Aditya Raj Deshlahara - 94.4%(PCM)
Bijit Bharali - 94% (Biology)

Global Exposure/ Internationalism

Round Square is the core of Internationalism. Our students and teachers are also benefiting enormously from other organizations that we are affiliated to. More than 150 students have participated in Model United Nations programmes in the last two years in India and abroad.

After the successful organization of Round Square International Conference in 2007, DC is now seen as possibly the best Indian school to partner for internationalism. The G-20 group of Iconic Heads from the prestigious Schools across the world attended G-20 conference in February 2013 at DC.

GALES (Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools), an organization from 25 plus countries, has only one Indian partner, DC. It is for the very first time decided to shift for October 2014 the venue of its bi-annual summit from Raffles Institution, Singapore to DC, Indore.

AFS is another organization through which we can send out students on scholarships, and also organize incoming and outgoing group exchanges.

Two years ago saw the initiative of a joint US, Australia & UK study of 10 schools in 10 countries that are most effectively adapting to globalisation. DC was the only school selected in India. Post graduate teacher trainees at the Melbourne School of Education, Australia, come every year to DC for their practical stint. Also, the three week course we run on Indian Culture continues to attract students, especially from Canada.

In the last two years -

31 students have gone out on solo exchanges to USA, Australia, Thailand, Scotland, Canada, S. Africa, Germany & Peru. In return we hosted 24 students from 9 countries. We also had groups coming in from Woodleigh School in Australia, Shenzhen (Nanshan) Concord College of Sino-Canada in People's Republic of China & Ivanhoe in Australia.

3 students attended the Wellington Leadership Institute’s Global Social Leaders Programme in England. 25 students went on AFS exchanges to Hungary, Germany & Italy.

In exchange AFS has sent us 3 students on 12 month exchanges from Italy, Germany & Russia and two students for a shorter duration from Germany. 5 students from USA will be on a Hindi Language Learning Program for one year at DC. Also, from AFS we had a fortnight visit from 11 students and 2 teachers from Russia. We have had 9 overseas teachers visit us.One teacher has been on a teacher exchange program to Denmark and another one to the US.

Senior Vice Principal has attended the Deputy Heads G-20 Conference at Wellington, Eton & Marlborough in the UK and attended with students attended the swearing in ceremony of President Obama as Leadership Conference in Washington. Two students escorted by a teacher attended the Ideas to Change the World Summit at Raffles in Singapore. 10 students and a teacher attended a 10 day conference at Stanford.

6 students attended Annual Round Square International Conference which was held in Florida. About 60 students attended South Asia & Gulf Regional Round Square Conferences in 2013.

Co Curricular Activities:

DC was a host of the IPSC Dance Festival in 2021 and the IPSC Music Festival 2022. The performing arts department is very strong at DC and our students have been awarded the outstanding performances in various events of IPSC Drama, Music and Dance. The visual arts department at DC is not far behind with students bringing in laurels in most of the segments of IPSC Art.

The Literary Department both English and Hindi have done extremely well along with the quizzers and brought in awards galore. The Invitational Debates (Hindi and English) plus Quiz is hosted every year by DC where schools from all over the country participate.

Apart from this DC can boast of very successful and innovative MUN Conferences which it has been hosting since 2014 and have become very popular amongst schools in India and abroad.

DC was the first to host the IPSC MUN in 2017 and another first is the IPSC French Fest which is an initiative by the school to encourage the French Language, this will be held in July 2023.

Sports facilities and achievements in sports:

DC has world class facilities for sports namely, two BCCI approved cricket grounds which have hosted Ranji Trophy matches, Floodlit AITA approved four Turf Tennis Courts, Olympic size Swimming pool, Floodlit synthetic surface Basketball Courts, Four Football fields, three Hockey grounds, standard 400m athletic track and field, an international 10m indoor (air-conditioned) Shooting range, 50m & 25m outdoor shooting range and SRFI approved nine glass backed squash courts, a 150m floodlit Skating rink, Table Tennis hall, six Sports Pavilions, Sports climbing wall, an Obstacle Course, State of the art Fitness Centre, Gymnastics facilities and a modern Centre for Badminton and Horse riding.

DC has won the maximum number of medals in the events conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education and the School Games Federation of India. This year a total of 35 students (in Under 19 category only) qualified for the National Level events. DC teams are the current champions of the IPSC Shooting for Girls, IPSC Tennis for Girls, IPSC Swimming for Boys, IPSC Squash for Boys, IPSC Six-A- Side Cricket Tournament for Boys. DC has Khelo India medalists in Tennis, Girls and girls from DC have participated in the Jr. Wimbledon Championship and Jr. French Open Championship. A total of 5 Dalians participated in Khelo India School Games. Two Dalians received Khelo India Scholarship. Three students participated in the Fin Swimming World Cup Round 2022. DC was the winner of 2nd All India National Speed Skating Ranking Championship 2022. A girl from DC participated in the Asian Youth Chess Championship 2022. Dalians have also participated in International Squash tournaments and its Tennis players are playing in renowned championships of international circuit. Three students have received Eklavya Award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, two in Equestrian and one for Squash.

Community Service / DC Service Club

The service club at DC, The Daly Ethos, has taken up several initiatives to contribute to their community. The IPSC Service Project was one such endeavor where a group of 6 students went to Maharani Gayatri Devi School, Jaipur where they engaged in skill enhancing activities, visited NGOs and Old Age Homes to spend some quality time and performed skits to shed light on social issues. DC Service Day, organized annually on October 2nd, involved underprivileged kids of VAMA school, Musakhedi coming to DC and attending a workshop to acquire skills of reusing old newspaper and papers for making envelopes and paper bags, which they could then use for selling. Tree plantation drives and fundraising events have also been organised. A novel venture has been a session on first aid for all students to make them cognizant about actions to take in case of an emergency. Such skills have become even more essential after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paper recycling has also been a crucial part of DC using the Paper Recycling Plant installed in 2004. Through DC waste-paper collection boxes in every building and boarding house, waste paper is collected which is used to make bags, envelopes, files and other articles used for events and daily activities at DC. A recent drive for books and clothes furthered the cause of recycling by collecting over 200 books and 350 pairs of clothes. The books were distributed at the Bal Vinay Mandir School while the clothes were distributed in the Musakhedi Slum.

All in all, service forms a crucial part of students’ life at DC and we are always exploring opportunities to serve our society.

Environment Conservation

Environment Awareness and Action is another important aspect of our education programme. We have organized for DC and another 10 schools a much required workshop on Garbage Management conducted by young professionals from Auroville. We have hosted along with IIT Indore a workshop by GRIHA on green certification. Another Green initiative by DC is the planting of 70,000 trees by staff and students between 2018 and 2021. Forests were created in different areas of the school in the Japanese Miyawaki method. This makes the temperature at DC at least 3 degrees less than the town .

DC is also a natural habitat for Peacocks. Karuna International, Chennai conferred DC as the Natural National Bird Sanctuary Institute of India in 2012.

The entire campus is now a catchment area to increase the ground water level for which three lakes that have been constructed over the years.

A book on Birds of DC, a students and staff initiative was published in February 2013 and another updated one was published on birds of DC “The Avian Magnificence” in 2021. A book on the Trees of DC was published in 2014.

Water Recharging done from the 2 Lakes is 4,20,00,000 litres.

Sewage Treatment Plant

Capacity- 60,000 L/day.
Used for maintaining gardens and playfields.

Sprinklers (Jet Rain Gun)
Pop up Sprinklers
Moving towards a zero run-off campus

Solar Energy
A 200 kW Solar Power Plant was installed in 2021, a huge step towards energy conservation.