Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2025-26

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No official "STAY ORDER" against Admissions but ALL ADMISSIONS FOR 2013-2014 SUBJECT TO FINAL HIGH COURT VERDICT|Many Who Didn’t Get Admission Looking For Reprieve,Others Fear Losing Seats -MR VOHRA

Worried parents await nursery verdict

Many Who Didn’t Get Admission Looking For Reprieve, Others Fear Losing Seats

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Never the easiest of processes to deal with, nursery admissions are proving to be particularly arduous this year. A PIL in high court has challenged the legitimacy of some of the fundamental steps involved — schools being allowed to choose admission criteria and reservation of seats under management quota. With the court stating categorically that its order will be applicable from this year — 2013-2014 — itself, parents are caught in limbo and some schools have even put admissions on hold.
    Those who have already managed to secure seats are afraid the verdict will reverse the process. “We have already deposited money at a school. We are feeling a little insecure as my son’s name hasn’t appeared in any of the other lists that have been declared so far,” says Neelam Sharma. But she adds she will be accept just a draw-of-lots as well. “I think that system is fair to all kids,” she says. Some schools have put the admission process on hold till the high court decides the case one way or the other. ITL Public School in Rohini, for instance, has posted, “Second list for admission in Pre school will be declared after Delhi high court decision.”
    Sumit Aggarwal says he is not in a position to take more time off work. “Last time I had taken a week off but my office may not sanction more leave. It will be very difficult for me if the whole process has to be repeated,” says Aggarwal adding, “Neighbourhood as the sole criterion will not help me much as there isn’t any good school within five kilometres.”
    Parents who haven’t been able to admit their kids are hopeful that the judgment will help them out. Satish Chhabra is eagerly following the proceedings in court and says, “For any parents who have no hope for points for sibling or alumni, it’s a good thing.” “This could lead to a fairer system than what we currently have but it might open up other avenues of corruption. There should be a very strict watchdog and a similarly strict system for addressing complaints,” says Chhabra. Parents are constantly complaining of schools asking for donations,” continues Chhabra, “But the government wants proof. What proof do they want? Parents don’t want the hassle of finding proof. I know that there are schools that are asking for donations for the management quota right now before the judgment.”
    Prakash Jain hasn’t been able to admit his child either and says he’s “going through a difficult time” but is confident the court decision will help. “The court will definitely help. They at least think about the people.”
    (Names have been changed
    to conceal identity)

Letting schools frame criteria will lead to discrimination: HC

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Stressing on the need for uniformity in the admission process, Delhi high court on Tuesday observed that allowing each school to frame criteria would lead to discrimination.
    “Allowing different schools to frame different criteria for admission would be unguided liberty or power. We have to ensure schools follow uniform admission criteria,” a bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain remarked while hearing arguments by the action committee for private unaided schools.
    “Is this not discrimination? Don't make further classification. Don’t discriminate between children,” the bench told the counsel appearing on behalf of the schools pointing out that except draw of lots the law excludes any kind of classification as criteria including sibling, alumni, parents’ qualification.
    HC made the remarks while hearing a PIL, filed by NGO Social Jurist, against two notifications issued by the HRD ministry and Directorate of Education of Delhi government governing admission guidelines. The arguments in the case will continue Wednesday.
    During the hearing when one of the counsels placed the Ganguly committee report, the bench refused to consider it saying “it is only concerned whether the government notification is against the provisions of the RTE Act and Article 21A of the Constitution which makes education a fundamental right.”
    “This is only for the interests of the children and not the schools,” the court told the counsel who had argued that there cannot be a “common yardstick” for admitting children since every institution has its own ethos and philosophy.
    Social Jurist has claimed the two notifications have given a free hand to all unaided private schools to formulate their own nursery admission norms. The PIL has said categorization of kids by schools for admission has specifically been barred by RTE Act yet some schools give preference on grounds such as religion, alumni and sibling.

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एडमिशन को लेकर पेरेंट्स न घबराएं

नई दिल्ली (एसएनबी)। नर्सरी दाखिले को लेकर कोर्ट का फैसला अभी आना बाकी है। कोर्ट के फैसले के बाद ही तय होगा कि सेशन 2013-14 के दाखिले किस तरह से किए जाएंगे। सोशल ज्यूरिस्ट संस्था के संयोजक अशोक अग्रवाल ने कहा कि नर्सरी एडमिशन क्राइटेरिया को लेकर अंतिम फैसला सोमवार या मंगलवार तक आने की उम्मीद है। अभी अभिभावकों को ज्यादा परेशान होने की जरूरत नहीं है। कोर्ट ने मैनेजमेंट कोटे के नाम पर 15 से 20 पर्सेट सीटें आरक्षित करने पर भी आपत्ति जताई है। अग्रवाल ने बताया कि कोर्ट ने इसे भेदभावपूर्ण माना है। कोर्ट ने स्कूलों को मैनेजमेंट कोटे के नाम पर कुछ सीटें रिजर्व रखने की स्वीकृति नहीं दी है। गौरतलब है कि नर्सरी में दाखिले के लिए रजिस्ट्रेशन प्रोसेस खत्म होने बाद कई स्कूल फस्र्ट एडमिशन लिस्ट जारी कर चुके हैं। वैसे, शिक्षा निदेशालय ने फस्र्ट लिस्ट जारी करने की अंतिम तिथि 15 फरवरी तय की है। चूंकि अब मामला कोर्ट में चल रहा है, इसलिए जो स्कूल एक दो दिनों में लिस्ट जारी करने वाले थे, उन्होंने फिलहाल इसे रोक लिया है। एडमिशन नर्सरी डॉटकॉम फोरम के फाउंडर सुमित वोहरा ने कहा कि दाखिले को लेकर किसी तरह का स्टे नहीं लगा है। उन्होंने अभिभावकों से अपील की कि वे किसी की बातों में न आएं। जब तक अंतिम फैसला नहीं होता, किसी भी दाखिले को खतरा नहीं है। उन्होंने कहा कि अभिभावक घबरा रहे हैं कि उन्हें फॉर्म दोबारा भरने पड़ेंगे। उन्होंने अभिभावकों को सलाह दी कि वे फिलहाल फीस नकद के तौर पर न जमा कराएं, उनकी फीस अटक सकती है। स्कूल मनमाने तरीके से रुपए काटकर कुछ पैसा लौटा सकते हैं। हाईकोर्ट के फैसले के बाद ही तय होगी नर्सरी एडमिशन की पॉलिसी सोमवार या मंगलवार को आ सकता है फैसला

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Permalink Reply by Praveen on January 30, 2013 at 1:41pm

Dear Moderators,

I went through the Right To Education Act 2010 and found out that the definition of child means " any male or female child of the age of six to fourteen years of age"

Then how does the RTE Act applies to the Nursery Admissions ???

It means the whole chaos is unnecessary

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Permalink Reply by Santosh Kumar Sahu on January 30, 2013 at 2:05pm

Somewhere it says if the schools admits students from a lower age the act is also applicable there.

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Permalink Reply by Praveen on January 30, 2013 at 2:29pm

Dear @Santosh

I went through the complete Act but could not find anything about the children with age less than 6 except for the sub rules for recording the details of children in a locality

There is only Article 45 which states the following about the education for children upto 6 years

"45. The State shall endeavour to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years.".

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Permalink Reply by Akshat on January 30, 2013 at 2:35pm

There is something called the intent of law. The intent of the RTE is to provide equal opportunities for education to all. It is not that the courts always decide on the basis of what is written in the law, they also go by the spirit of the law.

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Permalink Reply by vaibhav kapoor on January 30, 2013 at 2:46pm

Section 11 speaks in part about children below 6 years.

Further no where in the act, the schools have been given power to discriminate amongst children below 6 years . If an Act is silent on a subject, it does not mean that constitution permits illegal interpretation.

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Permalink Reply by Anurag Garg on January 30, 2013 at 1:55pm

DPS rohini is still going for a draw (on 31.1.13, morning 9 am). This is a draw of limited no of students with same points (42 students). Arent they flouting the directions given by the h'ble court.

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Permalink Reply by Praveen on January 30, 2013 at 1:55pm

I attach the RTE Act for reference

Attachments:

rte.pdf, 1.7 MB

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Permalink Reply by Aashish on January 30, 2013 at 2:43pm

Completely Frustrating.

Imagine what is being called as discrimination - siblings - i.e. 2 kids of same parents go to same school. THIS IS A CASE OF DISCRIMINATION THAT is being talked about in the name of RTE.

Somehow, other bifurcations like EWS, Minorities, etc are NOT discrimination. To make it worse, delay of the SO CALLED verdict is only causing more impatience and chaos.

Dec 2010 Petition troubling parents in Jan-2013. Imagine, the chaos that a common man (read: parents, this time) has to go through.

Are there people (read: people with common sense) around who can deal with all such Petitions quickly and with a non-political spirit??

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Permalink Reply by Ayush Dixit on January 30, 2013 at 3:41pm

The moot point is that court will take its decision as per its interpretation of the law. However court should first ensure that a regulatory body and monitoring mechanism be established to ensure that school admissions take place in accordance with the law. Otherwise it will be like having traffic rules without traffic signals and traffic police in place. Establishing any nodal authority will take time and cannot happen in a short span of time. Best possible solution would be let the existing admission process continue till such time the appropriate mechanism is put in place for nationwide implementation of the RTE ACT.I wonder what is the status of RTE ACT implementation for nursery admissions in areas like Gurgaon, Noida etc. neighbouring Delhi. Are schools in these places exactly following the RTE ACT for their nursery admissions ? The problem in our country is not so much with the laws but the implementation of the same in letter and spirit.