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3 months to decide on nursery rules~Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday gave the Delhi government three months to decide on a plea seeking an amendment in the admission procedure for nursery classes to bring it in line with the Right to Education (RTE) Act, which prohibits screening of children for admissions.

A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and justice Manmohan disposed of a PIL while directing the government and the Lieutenant Governor (LG) to take a decision on the representation by Social Jurist, a civil rights group. According to the PIL, the Delhi government had, in its 2007 order, given freedom to private unaided recognised schools to frame their own guidelines for nursery admissions.

Ashok Agarwal, the petitioner’s counsel, argued that by giving a free hand to private schools to formulate their guidelines, the government had violated Section 13 of the RTE Act.

The lawyer argued that the high court in its February 19, 2013, judgment on another petition had said “though we have held that the RTE Act is not applicable to nursery schools, in our opinion there cannot be any different yardstick to be adopted for education to children up to the age of 14 years irrespective of the fact that it applies to only elementary education”.

The lawyer said the court had stated that the petitioner was asked to give a representation to the LG for making appropriate amendment in the government order granting autonomy to unaided schools to frame guidelines.

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Permalink Reply by V R Harihar on September 26, 2013 at 4:56pm

@Yash,

Lol...... yah may be you are right.

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Permalink Reply by Yash Rawat on September 26, 2013 at 5:00pm

LOL... I wish they give me the power of education Minister for one day :-))

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Permalink Reply by Pushpendra on September 26, 2013 at 5:47pm

Sir, Delhi is special state as it is city and state both. In Delhi these issue becomes bigger and louder if anyone tries especially with electoral politics and support of courts. In other part of NCR, cities faces same problem as Delhi but these are not shared with rest of the state so these are not problems on which electoral politics depends and nor courts/judges face/see these issues as Delhi. Even somebody tries for anything it is like "nakkarkhane mein tuti ki awaaz".

I really feel there should be one govt for whole NCR.