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Management quota for nursery seats to be scrapped?

TNN | Updated: Jan 5, 2017, 12.53 AM IST

New Delhi: The new guidelines for nursery admissions may do away with the management quota. Officials in the directorate of education said all seats in the open category — 75% — may be handed over to applicants accepted on the basis of neighbourhood criteria.

The guidelines for the 298 private schools on public land are yet to be released. On Wednesday, a meeting was held between the director of education and members of various committees and school principals. They discussed about the definition of a school's neighbourhood.

The back and forth between the various stakeholders and the government on definition of neighbourhood can be a reason for delay in the release of guidelines, as the new rules might lead to scrapping of management quota.

Senior DoE officials said keeping 75% seats entirely for the neighbourhood criteria might nullify management quota for schools on public land. These schools reserve 25% seats for students from economically weaker sections. Not denying admission to children from neighbourhood is a condition on their land allotment deeds.

However, sources said, the extent of impact will depend on a range of other factors — the number of seats a school had at entry level, how densely or sparsely populated its neighbourhood is, presence of other schools close-by. For any seat left vacant , the old criteria and quota being followed by the remaining 1,400 schools might be applicable.

"Schools said their autonomy will be hit and that private schools on government land are being further divided into two categories. We also discussed the legal provisions related to distance and neighbourhood in the Right to Education Act and the Delhi School Education Act and Rules," said an official.

According to Ameeta Mulla Wattal, principal of Springdales School, Pusa Road, the neighbourhood criteria cannot solely be used to fill a majority of seats in a school.

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Permalink Reply by Mandeep Singh on January 5, 2017 at 8:10am

Tentative date of decision?

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Permalink Reply by Stella Nandwani on January 5, 2017 at 10:27am

Please update the date of decision and the decision also.

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Permalink Reply by Priya Gupta on January 5, 2017 at 10:55am

Fighting between school and DOE will make the situation more worse..keep on waiting for school admission announcements is killing time..23 is approaching

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on January 5, 2017 at 10:57am

WE CANNOT GIVE CERTAIN DATE BUT AS PER SCHOOL N DOE FILE WOULD BE SENT TO LG FOR FINAL APPROVAL TODAY.

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Permalink Reply by Ravi Kumar Sharma on January 5, 2017 at 11:53am

If management quota scrapped, it will lead to another round of Legal fight. Schools will not give this up easily

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Permalink Reply by Vinod Jain on January 5, 2017 at 3:38pm

If schools don't give up this , let them give up the land. They don't even show the management quota fees(donation) by any receipt or take it from you in form of cheque. Then, we parents as a large group should become party to this in front of L.G. and get this scrapped.

Management Quota is eating into already over crowded schools.

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Permalink Reply by Prakash Chaudhary on January 5, 2017 at 3:49pm

In my opinion , we are again looking at a long legal battle between these schools and DOE / Delhi government as schools might argue that at the time of signing of the agreement for the alloted land there was no EWS quota , which is the norm now in all the schools .