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.

The Ramjas Inter School debate in English and Hindi was held on 4th and 5th  December 2009 at the Rai Kedarnath Auditorium. The debate was conducted in two stages – the preliminary and the final rounds.   Over 50 schools of Delhi participated in this round.

The debates in the Prelim round were rich in quality and the arguments were wide-ranging. Judges in both debates were eminent teachers from Delhi University and the media. Ten teams each were selected for the finals after this very grueling round. The teams that made it in the finals in English were New Era Public School, Mayapuri, Bal Bharti PItam Pura, Amity International School Saket, St. Thomas School, Banyan Tree School, Ahlcon Public School, Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Ramjas School, R.K. Puram, Ramjas School (Day boarding) and Ramjas School Pusa Road. In Hindi They were Amity International School, Saket, Springdales, School, Dhaula Kuan, St. Mark's School, Janakpuri, N.C. Jinadal Public School New Era Public School, St. Thomas School, Ramjas School, R.K. Puram, Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No. 2, Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No. 5 and Ramjas School, Pusa Road.

The topics for debates at the finals were

"Youth Today is on the brink of emotional bankruptcy" 

in English and "Asj Charitra gol, baaki sabka mol" in Hindi.

The judges for the debates were Dr. Rameshwar Raj, Dr. Rakesh Kumar and Dr. Rimi Khillan for Hindi and Ms. Swati Pal, Mr. Anurag Mittal and      Mr. Veerendra Kumar Mishra-all very eminent scholars and writers.        Smt Suryakanthi Tripathi, Former Ambassador to Spain, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest for the English debate. Dr Govind Vyas, well known poet and Mantri, Hindi Bhawan was the Chief Guest at the debate in Hindi.

The winners the Running Trophy in English were Ahlcon Public School, and the Runners up were New Era Public School. In individual prizes, the first prize went to Prabhat G. Roy from Ahlcon Public School. Two students Arushi Massey from St Thomas and Sanjmeet Abrol of New Era jointly bagged the second best speaker's prize while Sayyantana Datta of Ramjas School, R.K. Puram won the third prize. The conslolation prizes were awarded to Aditi Aggarwal and Eapsita Mishra from Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura and Amity International School, Saket respectively. While Shashwat Dhar and Shashank Singh were declared the best interjectors in the Prelims, Kalyani Chaudhary and Jigyasa were the best interjectors in the finals. The special prize for the best aided Ramjas School was won by Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No.1, Daryaganj.

In Hindi Amity International School, Saket lifted the Trophy while the host Ramjas School, Pusa Road were runner's up. Sanskriti Sadana and Puneet Ahuja from Amity International, were declared the best and the second beat speaker of the day. The third prize was bagged by Aashta Rathore of Ramjas School, Pusa Road, Deepali Mittal and Ridhima Aneja of Ramjas School, R.K. Puram and Springdales' School respectively won the consolation prizes. The Best Interjector's award in Prelims went to Saumya Guta and Ruman Nissar. In the finals, the best interjectors were Surabhi Bhatia and Yogesh, Ramjas Sr.Sec. School No.5 won the special prize for the best-Ramjas aided school.

Besides theses, ten outstanding speaker both from Hindi and English were awarded special prizes even though their teams could not make it to the finals.