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After government order, lobbying for nursery admissions is a thing of past~Sumit Vohra | Millennium Post-25 Dec 2013
After government order, lobbying for nursery admissions is a thing of past
25 December 2013, New Delhi, Varun Bidhuri
After scrapping 20 per cent management quota for nursery admissions in private schools, lobbying by bigwigs to ensure their ward’s admission will be a thing of past.
The orders go a long way towards establishing a check on the commercialisation of education in private unaided schools.
Sumit Vohra, an activist, said, ‘‘I welcomed the abolition of management quota for nursery admissions here. I am happy now that there will be no more bribes and no more approaches from politicians and industrialists.
‘Earlier under the guise of management quota, many schools used to indulge in lobbying with bigwigs and illegally provide admissions to their children, with donations of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 15 lakhs,’ he alleged.
Ashok Agarwal, social jurist said, ‘One day back, along with a 6-member delegation, I met the director of education and asked the government to stick to the same guidelines. The orders are not only in favor of children but it also goes a long way to check commercialisation of education in unaided private schools. National Progressive School Conference (NPSC), an organisation which comprises of 138 leading private progressive schools, in their letter on 20 December showed that they are not in any manner concerned with the rights of children’.
‘There are basically two objections raised by NPSC. First, that they should be given 20% discretionary management quota, which I believe, has been misused by schools and it is a major source of corruption in admission to private schools. NPSC should come out with data to show how NPSC used the discretionary quota in the last three years for the good of deserving cases. In any case, the same is discriminatory, arbitrary, against public interest and opposed to public policy. Schools have been abusing their autonomy purely for commercial interests. I therefore, strongly support government order.’
Despite repeated calls and text messages, vice-chairperson of NPSC, Ameeta Mulla Wattal, was unavailable for comments. RC Jain, president of Delhi State Public Schools Management Association, said the government order, ‘amounts to interfering with the direct attack on the autonomy of private schools.’
25 December 2013, New Delhi, Varun Bidhuri
After scrapping 20 per cent management quota for nursery admissions in private schools, lobbying by bigwigs to ensure their ward’s admission will be a thing of past.
Sumit Vohra, an activist, said, ‘‘I welcomed the abolition of management quota for nursery admissions here. I am happy now that there will be no more bribes and no more approaches from politicians and industrialists.
‘Earlier under the guise of management quota, many schools used to indulge in lobbying with bigwigs and illegally provide admissions to their children, with donations of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 15 lakhs,’ he alleged.
Ashok Agarwal, social jurist said, ‘One day back, along with a 6-member delegation, I met the director of education and asked the government to stick to the same guidelines. The orders are not only in favor of children but it also goes a long way to check commercialisation of education in unaided private schools. National Progressive School Conference (NPSC), an organisation which comprises of 138 leading private progressive schools, in their letter on 20 December showed that they are not in any manner concerned with the rights of children’.
‘There are basically two objections raised by NPSC. First, that they should be given 20% discretionary management quota, which I believe, has been misused by schools and it is a major source of corruption in admission to private schools. NPSC should come out with data to show how NPSC used the discretionary quota in the last three years for the good of deserving cases. In any case, the same is discriminatory, arbitrary, against public interest and opposed to public policy. Schools have been abusing their autonomy purely for commercial interests. I therefore, strongly support government order.’
Despite repeated calls and text messages, vice-chairperson of NPSC, Ameeta Mulla Wattal, was unavailable for comments. RC Jain, president of Delhi State Public Schools Management Association, said the government order, ‘amounts to interfering with the direct attack on the autonomy of private schools.’
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Permalink Reply by Amit Sinha on
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Why you people are not looking concerned for the plight of thosands of children who dont have any school in 6km vicinity. Surprising. The honorable Lft governor looks completely out of mind.
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Permalink Reply by Udit Sawhney on
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I feel you are out of mind instead.
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I thinking would be to early to assume that new guidelines would put a stop to all money & back door practises.
Schools will find a loop hole and by next year parents would have got 2-3 different address proof's made to help them negate the distance criteria.
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The distance criteria should be 12km atleast in city like delhi where govt had spend huge amount on,metro projects the connectivity has become so easy.city like Mumbai is based on local trains and we use to communicate easily from one station to another. On the other hand nursey you can command but what about kg to above, school and parents both will find way to amend the rules accordingly and nursery they will compromise but after that they will or might take admissions.
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why not make it 50 km?
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Permalink Reply by pankaj sharma on
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Some of the school are planning to follow the 6 km criteria in the direction they want and not in the radius. Please clarify?
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Great work done!
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Just keep 6km rule!!! I hope authorities stand by what they initially said.
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The order is in favour of kids... A big thank to all the people who made it possible. Management quota was a bane in admission process. Sm parents were asked 20 lakhs also to gt their ward in vasant valley via such quota.. So thank God its ova.
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Yes, thanks to lord!
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