Education in Delhi

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Education is based on three-tier model which includes primary schools, followed by secondary schools and tertiary education at universities or other institutes of same level. Education Department of the Government of Delhi is a premier body which looks into the educational affairs. The RTE right to education states that children from the age of 6 to 14 have to compulsorily be educated.^[1] 25% of the seats in all private schools are also reserved for the under-privileged children. Tertiary education is administrated by the Directorate of Higher Education.^[2]

Delhi has to its credit like the Indian Institute of Technology, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Indian Statistical Institute, National Institute of Technology, the School of Planning and Architecture, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, the Netaji Subhas University of Technology, the Delhi Technological University, for accountancy education The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India set up by an Act of Parliament in 1949, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, the National Law University, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre under Jamia Millia Islamia 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.