Dutch king, queen visit govt school in North-East Delhi

New Delhi, October 15 

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima took a guided tour of a government school in northeast Delhi on Tuesday where students showed them how they have adopted Sustainable Development Goals in their curriculum. 

Rakesh Semalty, the principal of the Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya in Nand Nagri, explained to the king and the queen the concept on which the school is based. 

“We have adopted 12 goals, including health and sanitation, gender equality, climate action and quality education,” Semalty told them. 

The king and the queen, who arrived in the Capital on Sunday night, were welcomed by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. 

“Students were delighted to meet them and vibrantly introduced happiness curriculum and entrepreneurship mindset curriculum to the royal couple,” he said. 

The students who gave the couple a guided tour of the school explained that their education goes beyond traditional textbooks, examinations and memory-based examinations. 

“We are moving ahead of it. The concept of education here is to make teaching and learning enjoyable, practical and sustainable,” they told the king and queen. They further said that they are working towards making the curriculum “humane, holistic and wholesome”. — PTI