The Deccan Education Society’s (DES) New English School Ramanbaug is completing 75 years.

To celebrate the 75th anniversary, fresh initiatives have been planned by the DES and its alumni students’ organisation. List of the things planned yearlong include constructing a separate and new building for skill development, solar energy project, garbage compost project and waste products, medicinal plants garden and restoration of school premises.

“Our school’s alumni student Dr Pramod Chaudhary has given a donation of ₹51 lakh to the school and from these funds, all the planned new works are going to happen. The work of some of the projects has already started, we are also going to develop a modern computer lab, science laboratory, language laboratory, educational units, production centre, and many other new things. All these works are expected to be completed by the year-end,” said Kulkarni, Chairman of DES.

Mr. Rawade, current principal of the school said, “We are collecting all the historical incidents and things of the school of the last 75 years and they will be preserved. Also, we are going to make a separate hall to display various historical possessions related to school as an exhibition. We appeal to all the alumni students to contribute to this initiative and along with that various small and big 75 programs are going to be held this year.”

Dr Deodhar said, “We are now organising batch-wise alumni student gatherings and various new development projects for the school. For this, we are raising funds from students and our appeal to all alumni students is to celebrate and participate in this school initiative.”