Who writes NCR Guide
The NCR Guide team
We are a small team in Delhi NCR writing for families: getting a child into school, moving here, and finding your way around once you have. Our articles carry the team's name rather than one person's. This page says who stands behind them and how we work.
- 125 schools, each checked against its own website and board records
- 33 cities, towns and districts with a page of their own
- 560 guides and news pieces
How we check a fact
- We start from the source. A school's fee comes from its own fee sheet or its CBSE public disclosure, an admission date from the Directorate of Education circular, a population from the Census tables, a metro fare from DMRC. If the only place a fact appears is a forum post or another listings site, it does not go on the page.
- A second person opens the same sources again and checks each figure against them, rather than taking the first person's word. For school lists, three checkers go through every figure, and anything they cannot match is changed or taken out.
- We say when, and where from. Pages show the date the facts were last checked, and link to the pages we used. When we work something out ourselves, like a yearly fee from a monthly fee sheet, the page says how.
- We go back. Admission rules, fees and air-quality orders change every year, so we return to a page when a new session's fee sheets or a new circular come out.
What we will not do
- Schools cannot pay to be listed higher, to be called "best", or to change what a page says about them. Our "best" and "top" lists do not use any hidden rating.
- We leave out a school's website link when the site looks hacked, rather than send you there.
- No ads aimed at children, and we do not ask children for personal details. The nursery age checker works on your own phone; a date of birth typed into it never reaches us.
- We use drawings, not photos of children.
When we get something wrong
Tell us. Write to info@ncr-guide.com or use the contact page, with the page and what is wrong. A link to the school's or the government's own page helps most. We check it against the source, fix the page and update its checked date. If a mistake could have cost someone a deadline or money, we say on the page what changed.
Schools can send corrections the same way, from an official email address or with a link to the school's own website.
Guest writers
Parents, teachers and people who know a neighbourhood well sometimes write for us. Their pieces carry their own name, and we check the facts in them the same way. Writers must be 18 or over. How to write for NCR Guide.