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 2007 at the Rai Kedarnath Auditorium. The debate was conducted in two stages – the preliminary and the final rounds.   Over 40 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, Maya Puri, Birla Vidya Niketan, Army Public School, Daula kuan, Summerfields School, St. Marks's Sr. Sec. School, Janak Puri, Venkateshwar International School, St. Thomas School, Bluebells Intenational School, Apeejay School, Noida and Ramjas School, Pusa Road. In Hindi they were St. Thomas School, Dayawati Modi Academy, D.L.D.A.V School, Pitam Pura, Mount Carmel School, Anand Niketan, Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No.2, Ramjas School, Anand Parvat and  Ramjas School, Pusa Road.

The topics for debates at the finals were

"We've learnt to email but forgotten to communicate" 

in English and 

"Ji haan, hum sabhya hain" 

in Hindi.

The judges for the debates were Dr. Gita Goel, Dr. Premlata and Mr. Lal Chand for Hindi and Prof. Susan Visvanathan, Mr. Sanjay Arora and Mrs. Sanjukta Naskar- all very eminent scholars and writers. Shri Chandan Mitra, Member, Rajya Sabha and Editor of The Pioneer, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest for the English debate. Shri Vijay Kishore Manav, the Associate Editor, Hindustan, was the Chief Guest at the debate in  Hindi.

The winners the Running Trophy in English were Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, and the Runners up were New Era Public School. In individual prizes, the first prize went to Zorawar Purohit from Army Public School, Prateek Trehan from Venkateshwar International School bagged the second best speaker's prize and Rahul Narang or St. Mark's School won the third prize. The conslolation prizes were awarded to Sahil Agnihotri and Parul Nanda from the New Era Public School. While Rohan Gupta and Ryan Wilson were declared the best interjectors in the prelims, Arjun Singh and Shwetang were the best interjectors in the finals. The special prize for the best aided Ramjas School was won by Ramjas Girl's Sr. Sec. School.

In Hindi, the winners were Ramjas School, Pusa Road. Therefore the trophy went to D.L.D.A.V School, Pitam Pura. The Runners Up was Ramjas School No.2, but being a host school, the trophy went to New Era Public School. Pulkit Gupta of Ramjas School, Pusa Road, was declared the best speaker, while Bhavani Malhotra from St. Thomas School, won the second prize. The third prize was begged by Manisha Goel of Ramjas School, Anand Parvat. Himani Wadhwa and Nikita Aggarwal won the consolation prizes. The best interjector's award in the Prelims went to Bhavini Malhotra and Akshita Jain. In the Finals, the best interjectors were Sarthak Patel and Ratna Chaddha. Ramjas Sr. Sec. School No. 2 won the special prize for the best Ramjas aided School.