Since its modest beginning 43 years ago, ASN has steadily evolved and established itself as a top-ranked CBSE school in the national capital, whose students are readily admitted into reputed higher ed institutions including the IITs – Swati Roy RANKED AMONG DELHI’S Top 50 co-educational day schools in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2017-18, the CBSE-affiliated Adarsh Shiksha Niketan Senior Secondary School (ASN) has earned an excellent reputation for providing high-quality academic and extra-curricular education in a contemporary learning environment. Promoted in 1975 by educationist Shri Krishna Lal Luthra and managed by the Sanatan Dharam Adarsh Shiksha Sansthan trust (estb.1973), the school admitted its first batch of 20 students in the Luthra home four decades ago. In 1991 the school moved to a new 3.5-acre state-of-the-art campus in Delhis bustling Mayur Vihar. Currently, ASN has 3,285 students and 155 teachers on its muster rolls. Since its modest beginning 43 years ago, ASN has steadily evolved and established itself as a top-ranked CBSE school in the national capital, whose students are readily admitted into reputed higher ed institutions including St. Stephens, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri Ram College and the Indian Institutes of Technology. Moreover, its adoption of sustainable environment-friendly practices won it the Green Leaf School Award of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, the well-known environment think tank, for three consecutive years (2015-17). ASN is also the first primary-secondary in the country to be designated a Sustainable Development Goals Laboratory of the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan. “Our objective is to provide well-balanced education which blends academic rigour, sports and co-curricular activities to develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving and creativity in an IT-enabled learning environment. This focus on holistic education combined with excellent infrastructure and innovative pedagogies has enabled us to produce socially and environmentally conscious students rooted in Indian values and culture”, says Sonia Luthra, principal of ASN Senior Secondary School. An alumna of Delhi University, Luthra signed up with the school in 1996 as a maths teacher and was promoted to the office of principal in 2011. Over the past four decades, the ASN management has liberally invested in the construction of modern academic and extra-curricular education facilities. The schools 3.5-acre state-of-the-art campus is dominated by a four-storey building housing 84 well-ventilated and IT-enabled classrooms, a library with 41,000 book titles and 50 magazine and journal subscriptions in addition to class libraries, and 17 laboratories including five computer, science, mathematics and language labs. The school is also equipped with an ATAL Tinkering Laboratory, established with a grant of Rs.20 lakh from the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. Moreover, in 2017 ASN was conferred a special EducationWorld Grand Jury Award for promoting exceptional library and reading culture. Expansive sports education facilities are provided for basketball, football, cricket, lawn tennis, table tennis, volleyball, badminton, roller-skating, judo and taekwondo. A 2,200-seats auditorium serves as a venue for cultural events with students encouraged to participate in the activities of…
