Education holds the way to financial development, social change, modernization and national combination.

The National Policy on Education planned in 1986 and altered in 1992 intends to give training of a similar quality up to an offered level to all understudies independent of their rank, ideology habitation or sex. It goes for advancement of a national, a feeling of normal citizenship and composite culture and fortifying national combination. It lays weight on the requirement for a radical change of the training framework to enhance its quality at all stages and gives significantly more noteworthy consideration regarding Science and Technology. All youngsters are proposed to be without given and mandatory training up to 14 years old. The Directorate of Education sincerely attempts to execute the strategy.

The educational facilities are given in stages i.e. pre-essential, essential, center, optional, senior auxiliary and college level. Pre-essential and essential trainings are for the most part the obligation of the nearby bodies. Center, auxiliary and senior optional instruction is essentially taken care of by Directorate of Education, Government of Delhi. Despite the fact that pre-essential and essential training is predominantly the obligation of the neighborhood bodies, the Govt. of Delhi has changed over its 326 schools into composite schools now known as Sarvodaya Vidyalayas having classes from I to XII. At the University level, Govt. of Delhi is running 28 Degree Colleges being supported by UGC and Delhi Govt. NDMC, however basically worried about essential training, is additionally running a chose number of center, auxiliary, senior optional schools in its territories at show. Aside from this various private associations are additionally occupied with conferring instruction at all levels of tutoring. These associations are given concede in-help by Govt. of Delhi to meet the use on training. Other than these, perceived unaided schools are additionally being keep running in Delhi by enrolled trusts and social orders.

Vision of Directorate of Education

'Quality Schooling for All'

To give free instruction to understudies from Class I to XII regardless of standing, shading, belief, religion.

To give offices to instructors to educating and refreshing their insight.

To give Elementary Education to kids.

Mission of Directorate of Education

Kid Centered Education to encourage learning and thinking for all round identity advancement of youngster

To upgrade the proficiency rate in Delhi.

To make mindfulness about social, legacy, human and good esteems.

To make the understudies dependable residents who may seriously partake in national exertion.

To produce helpful climate for over all identity advancement of the understudies.

To give basic instruction to the understudies.

Clients of Directorate of Education

The clients are:

(a) Students & their parents.
(b) Teachers
(c) Head of schools
(d) Other employees

Types of Services being Provided

(1) Free education to all students.

(2) Provision of languages Hindi, English, Urdu/Punjabi/Sanskrit/any other regional language.

(3) Various streams at senior secondary level.
(a) Science stream
(b) Commerce stream
(c) Humanities stream
(d) Vocational stream (with various options)

(4) Provision of Computer Education in large number of schools.

(5) Provision of Yoga least three days in a week for each class.

(6) Provision of S.U.P.W. activities.