The Ramjas Inter School Debate was first held in 1995 in English. Over 40 schools participated in the very first debate. Encouraged by this response, the debate in Hindi was begun in the subsequent year. The debate is held in two rounds–a preliminary and the finals. Six teams from each qualify for the Finals. The winners in the final round, bag the Running trophy which they get to keep with them for a year.

Each round of the debate has a different topic. Topics are chosen by a committee after much deliberations. Eminent people from all walks of life have judged the debates in various years. Some of the personalities invited were Mrs Louise Khurshid, Namita Gokhle, the well-known author, television news reader Rahul Singh, poet Surender Verma, Mrs Alka Shankar and Mrs Naveen Menon.

An annual feature of Ramjas Foundation, the Ramjas Inter School Debates in English and Hindi were held on 2nd and 3rd December 2010 at Rai Kedarnath Auditorium. The preliminary rounds were held earlier at Ramjas School, Pusa Road. Over fifty schools participated in this round.

The debates in the prelims round were rich in quality and highly absorbing. The arguments were persuasive, convincing and wide-ranging.Judges in both the debates were eminent teachers from Delhi University and the media.Ten teams each were selected for the finals after grueling prelims.

The teams that made it in the finals in English were Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura; Ramjas School, Pusa Road;Appejay School, Sheikh Sarai; Bal Bharti Public School, Ganga Ram Marg; Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar; Army Public School, Shankar Vihar; Vishwa Bharati School, Noida; Dayawati Modi Academy, Meerut; St. Thomas School and Ahlcon Public School.

In Hindi the ten best teams were Gyan Mandir School, Naraina; Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No. 5; St Thomas School; Dayawati Modi Academy, Meerut, Ahlcon Public School; Alwar Public School; Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura; Ramjas School, R.K. Puram; Ramjas School, Pusa Road, Lovely Public School, Priyadarshini Vihar.

The topics for debates at the finals were

" India is billion strong" in English and

"kaliyug ki yeh Riti Hai Bhai, Sab Kuch Kaho Karo Kuchu Naahi" in Hindi.

The judges for the debates in English were Dr. Anamika, Mr. Priyadarshan and Ms. Rose Mary Marandi. In Hindi, the judges were Dr. Meena Sharma, Dr.Neelam Rishikalp and Dr. Nritiya Gopal- all eminent scholars and writers. Shri Salman Kurshid, Minister of State(I/C) for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs graced the occasion as the Chief Guest for the English debate. Shri Laxmi Shankar Bajapai, director Aakash Vani, was the Chief Guest at the debate in Hindi.

The winners of the Running trophy in English were Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura and the Runners Up was Birla Vidya Niketan. In Individual Prizes, the First Prize went to Remya of Appejay, Sheikh Sarai. The Second prize went to Aditi Aggarwal of Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura, Mridul Mahajan of Bal Bharti Public School , Pitampura and Prathishta of Birla Vidya Niketan jointly bagged the Third prize. The consolation prize was awarded to Shruti of St. Thomas School while Nilanjana Bhattacharjee and Aditi Aggarwal were declared the best interjectors in the prelims, Abinav Krishnan and Nidhi were the best interjectors in the finals. The special prize for the best Ramjas Aided Schools was won by Ramjas Girls Sr. Sec. School, Darya Ganj.

In Hindi, Bal Bharti School, Pitampura lifted the trophy while Alwar Public School was the runner's up. Lavish Tyagi of Dayawati Modi Academy got best speaker award. Ayushi Dadhichi got the second best speaker award. The third prize was bagged by Megha Nanda of Gyan Mandir School. Akshit Ladda of Lovely Public School and Vartika Aggarwal of Gyan Mandir School won the consolation prizes. The Best interjectors award in the prelims went to Dwij Bajaj of Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura and Yugal Kamboj of Ramjas School, Pusa Road. In the finals the best interjectors were Deepak Tiwari and Anadi Anant of Ramjas No. 4. Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No. 5 won the special prize for the best Ramjas Aided School. Besides these, ten Outstanding Speakers both from Hindi and English were awarded Special Prizes even though their teams could not make it to the finals.