Form Dates | Admission Criteria | Results | Fee Details | List of All Schools
VOICING ANGUISH
Parents in black, see red on flaws
Education Director Admits Loopholes In Nursery Admissions, To Rethink
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:For the first time in the history of nursery admissions in the city, parents came out on the roads to protest against violations by schools and the serious crunch of seats in the general category. Dressed in black, these harried parents showed up outside the office of the directorate of education on Wednesday evening. They also submitted a memorandum to the education director. Soon after, the directorate issued a circular to schools stating that if any seats remain vacant in any category (mostly alumni and sibling) except the EWS, they should be declared as open for others who have not been successful in getting admission earlier.
The education director, P Krishnamurthy, also admitted the nursery admissions this year turned out to be a learning experience for them especially after the implementation of the right to education and the 25% quota for the economically weaker section. “We will now have to look at how much is set aside in every category for nursery admissions. Schools have the freedom to fix their own criteria but we try to keep the system transparent. We will learn from this experience,” he said. According to him, schools which had kept categories for sibling, alumni and others will have to open the vacant seats for those in waiting.
He also said the number of general seats had shrunk but the directorate had not stopped private schools from increasing their total number of seats to accommodate this quota. “We are also collecting details from all unrecognized schools so that we can know their number and about their infrastructure to consider relaxing the norms for recognition. That will create more options for parents,” Krishnamurthy said.
Navbharat Times 10 Feb
Tags:
It was a great job, but I think transferring of vacant Alumni, Sibling and Transfer case seats are not going to help general category. Because at this point no schools are left with any of these seats vacant. Even if they are vacant they will sell them rather give it to general category.
Show cause notice are issued with lot of clerical work it might take days..
these thing are not done in a single day
The statement of Dte of Edn Mr. P Krishnamoorthy to transfer any vacant seat from the categories other than EWS to General will never happen. We know the general category will continue to suffer for this year atleast, because schools will not show the vacant seats in Staff, Mgmt or Religion based quota.
My advocacy goes for the previously adopted system of test and interviews and not for point system. We parents work hard to educate our children so that they should not leg behind in securing seats in terms of their personality and all round knowledge. I am not against reservation for EWS category but it should be limited to 15% only.
Highly educated parents will definitely opt for tests and interviews. My suggestion goes for test and interviews for all categories including EWS, Salaried, Professionals & Business category. But reservation in terms of %age for each category should be determined and test and interviews be conducted accordingly. Rest can join Mgmt quota.
© 2025 Created by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster).
Powered by
helpdesk@admissionsnursery.com