तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय — lead me from darkness to light
Arya Colony, Surajpur · Greater Noida
Diksha Public School
A state-board day school for about 900 children. KG to Class 12. Operating since 1998.
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तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय — lead me from darkness to light
Arya Colony, Surajpur · Greater Noida
A state-board day school for about 900 children. KG to Class 12. Operating since 1998.
दीक्षा · Diksha
Diksha is the moment a teacher kindles learning in a student — the oldest idea in Indian education, and the one this school is named for.
Diksha Public School has been in Arya Colony, Surajpur, for the better part of three decades — two wings, several hundred families, and one deliberate idea of what a state-board education in this part of Greater Noida should look like. We teach to that idea: we hold every child to a real standard, and we look after them while they get there.
The School
Shri Shiv Kumar Arya opened the school in 1998 with nine children in a single classroom, in a quiet sector at the edge of Greater Noida that had not yet become Greater Noida. It now has roughly nine hundred students across a Junior and a Senior wing.
The school is owned and operated by the Arya family. Shri Shiv Kumar Arya, the founder, still negotiates every major purchase and contract personally. His son, Harsh Arya, took on the vice-principal role in 2024 and runs day-to-day operations alongside the principal. The family lives within walking distance and is in the building every day.
The school employs 28 people: 18 teachers, four administrative and front-office staff, two accountants, and four support staff. Tenure is unusually long for the sector — several senior class teachers have been here for more than fifteen years.
What We Teach
One school, growing with a child from the first day of KG to the board examinations. The school follows the UP State Board syllabus from KG through Class 10, and the CBSE syllabus in the senior wing for Class 11 and 12. The medium of instruction is English; Hindi is taught from KG, and a third language — Sanskrit or Urdu — from Class 6 through Class 8. The day begins at 7:50 AM with assembly and runs in eight forty-minute periods, ending at 1:50 PM.
Two sections per class, with a dedicated class teacher and a junior assistant. These years are about reading fluency, basic numeracy, clear handwriting, and the habit of finishing what you start. Children are not streamed by ability before Class 4.
Subject specialisation begins in Class 6, and the third language is introduced. Class teachers continue to anchor each section. Classes 7 and 8 take an annual overnight trip, funded partly by the school and partly by families.
Class 9 and 10 sit the UP Board examinations. Class 11 streams into Science (PCM, PCB), Commerce (with and without Maths), and Humanities, on the CBSE syllabus and examination calendar.
In the 2025 Class 10 board examinations: a 100% pass rate, with 14 of 92 candidates scoring above 90%.
A school is a community first, a building second, and a brochure last.
— Shri Shiv Kumar Arya, founder
The Building
The building from the film, modelled in three dimensions. Drag to turn it — the arched verandah, the two floors, the trees along the boundary. Children walk these stairs every morning at ten to eight.
Model of the school building · Made by the family, 2026
Admissions
The school admits around fifty children to KG each year, with occasional lateral entry at later classes when seats open. Admission is straightforward: a meeting with the principal and a member of the founding family, a short interaction with the child, and the paperwork. There is no entrance examination.
Collect a form from the front office, with the child's birth certificate, Aadhaar, and parents' identification.
A thirty-minute meeting with the principal, usually within ten days. A founding-family member joins for KG and Class 1.
A short, gentle conversation with the child. For Class 3 and above, a brief written exercise. No entrance exam.
A decision within a week. On acceptance, the first month's fee and the one-time admission fee secure the seat.
Admission for the next session opens on 1 November. A detailed fee structure for every class is available from the front office.
Visit
The school is at Arya Colony, Surajpur, Greater Noida — 201306. Coming in person is welcome, and unannounced visits are fine. The principal is in the building Monday to Friday, between 8 AM and 2 PM.