Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy, Manish Sisodia, at the inaugural event on Saturday.

In a first, the Delhi government schools are set to provide students with swimming pools and classes to help them beat the summer heat.

Along with deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated two normal-size swimming pools in the city government schools in Trans Yamuna Area on Saturday.

The two schools where he inaugurated the swimming pools lie in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar phase 2 and west Vinod Nagar.

Inaugurated on Saturday morning, the pools will be made functional in summers from April to November 15 each year and trainers would impart free coaching and swimming classes. The swimmers will then participate in inter-school and school national championships.

The pools have been fitted with standard equipment such as starting blocks, lane ropes, filtration plant and safety equipment.

In his inaugural address to parents, students and teachers, the chief minister said the revamping of government schools is a movement stirred by this government.

"The outcome of this change is reflecting on these kids' faces as you can see that their body language has changed," CM Kejriwal said, adding, the inferiority complex surrounding government schools has started to disappear.

"We were told that the government schools cannot deliver and become good, but our government has shown in three years that these schools can change," he told the students and parents attending the event.

Inspection of the swimming pool in these schools was carried out by deputy chief minister Sisodia himself early morning hours before the inauguration at 6 am.

The Aam Aadmi Party supremo also took a dig at banks in his inauguration address. In a scathing attack he said the banks ask common people to provide collateral but the same collateral is not taken into account by people who loan of Rs 5,000 crore. "When you go to a bank, they ask you whether you have a land or a house or a car for collateral but they do not ask people who loan Rs 5,000 crore," the CM said.