Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday inaugurated the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Armed Forces Preparatory School in Delhi.

A first of its kind, the school was developed at Jharoda Kalan in Najafgarh. Presently, there are 175 students admitted to the school. It has a free dedicated hostel facility with cadet mess for boys and girls. It is a part of the Delhi government's School of Specialised Excellence and affiliated to the Delhi board of school education. It is open to all Delhi residents.

Talking about the school, Arvind Kejriwal said, "Delhi government's Armed Forces Preparatory School starts today. Besides special education, students will get four-year-long coaching for the National Defence Academy (NDA) and similar competitions for free."
He added, "Within just one year, we built this school and even surpassed our own expectations. This is a state of the art facility, it offers services you wouldn't get in the most posh schools too. 80 to 90 per cent of students here have been absorbed from government schools itself. Education is completely free in our schools, all the children here get the same facilities to eliminate the rich and poor divide."

Arvind Kejriwal said that there was no formal system to prepare them for the tests required to join the Armed Forces. "All the officer-like qualities will be inculcated in them which is required to serve the Armed Forces. There will be individual and group tasks. Mock interviews and psychometric tasks will be conducted. Personality Development workshops will be organised," he said.

"We named this school after Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh so that every student who passes out from this school has the spirit to sacrifice their lives for the country after being inspired by the man himself," he added.