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70 is the new zero in nursery admissions | ‘Ind Exp-HC orders provisional admission for last nursery seat in Sanskriti School
NEW DELHI: General category applicants who were initially elated by the 70 neighbourhood points are fast discovering that 70 is the new zero. Very few schools are even holding draw-of-lots for those with just distance points. But it's the transfer cases - a surprisingly large number of them - that has everyone stressed. A group of nearly 40 parents have written to the education minister, Manish Sisodia, asking him to intervene.
"Only those coming from outside Delhi have a sure shot at getting in," says a parent. "I attended the draw for Delhi Public School, Vasant Vihar. 50 of the selected candidates are transfer cases. What should we do? This was the only school where we had the extra five alumni points," says Amit Goel, a parent. Alumni cases are feeling short-changed most as the points for alumni and transfers are the same - five. Based in Vasant Kunj, he should be spoilt for choice of schools - the area has a very high concentration of private schools considered 'good' - but is finding his chances, at least in the first round, are close to none.
D R Saini, principal, DPS RK Puram (senior schools for both DPS VV and DPS East of Kailash), says of the 140 general quota candidates selected at DPS VV, 50 (more than a third) are transfer category ones. In the case of DPS EOK, 38 out of 117 selected candidates have got the five transfer points. "We had 9,000 registrations this year, a record. We couldn't check them then but now we are checking one-by-one. Till February 28, all documents will be very minutely checked," says Saini who agrees that this year has seen a significant increase in the number of transfer cases. He further explains the guidelines have also left it vague defining transfer as "inter-state." "Transfers from Gurgaon and Noida are also interstate but there's no word on NCR in the instructions."
"We've been staying here for decades and paying taxes," argues a parent, "How can someone who comes in from elsewhere have more rights than us?"
"I'm going to go through each form with a fine-toothed comb," warns Springdales School, Pusa Road, principal, Ameeta Mulla Wattal, "We've got about 200-250 cases. We had points for transfers earlier also but never so many applications." Suman Kumar, principal, Bluebells School International, has also noticed "a substantial increase." "Checking will have to be done even if it is random," she says.
Parents suspect foul-play. "We want the authorities to do away with transfer points altogether. Or at least not permit the NCR transfer. All you need is a letter from the employer saying you've moved. The large number of these has raised the cut-off to 75. We, who have just 70 distance points, are not at a stage when our chits can even go in," says a parent.
Activists like Khagesh Jha had warned of this earlier. "The number of seats that could be filled by alumni and siblings should've been fixed," says Jha, "Or these groups will snap up all the seats."
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Ind Exp-HC orders provisional admission for last nursery seat in Sanskriti School
Express News Service | New Delhi | February 18, 2014 5:28 am
The school opposed the plea. It said other schools provide reservation for children of All India Services employees. (Archive)Related
In a bid to avoid stalling nursery admission in the capital, while hearing a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the nursery admission guidelines, the Delhi High Court on Monday ordered that the admission to the “last seat” at the prestigious Sanskriti School would be done on a “provisional basis” and would be subject to the final decision of the court.
The order was issued on a plea filed by the father of a three-year-old who had applied for admission to the school, against the policy of 60 per cent reservation for children of the officials of the All India Services.
The nursery admission notification issued on December 18 had allowed for the schools, catering to children of Defence and All India Services, to formulate their own admission policy.
Dheeraj Kumar Singh, the father, had said in his plea that the Lt-Governor’s Recognised Schools (Admission Procedure for Pre-primary Class) Order 2013 “permits specific government services and more particularly, All India Services an unfettered and unrestricted right to reserve seats for their wards”. The plea alleged that the L-G’s order “has been necessitated to provide legal sanctity to the admission procedure adopted by schools such as Sanskriti”.
The court of Justice Manmohan in January had issued notice to L-G Najeeb Jung and sought his response on why an exception to the nursery admission rules for the school had been allowed.
The court had also sought responses from the Central government and the school.
During the hearing on Monday, Singh’s lawyer Akhil Sachar had sought interim relief from the court, arguing that the admission process would be completed soon.
“Last person admitted shall be informed that his/her admission would be provisional in nature and subject to final outcome of the court’s order,” the court said, adding that it could not, as an interim measure, stop the admission process or reserve a single seat for the petitioner’s daughter. The court ordered the government to submit its response within two weeks.
Meanwhile, the school, in its counter affidavit placed before the court, has opposed the plea saying there are various other government funded schools — Air Force School, Army School, Kendra Vidyalayas — which too provide such reservation and these institutions have not been made a party in the case.
It has contended that it was set up with a view to admit wards of All India Services officers who are often transferred to Delhi during the academic session.
The school said, before the L-G’s order or the RTE Act came into force, the institution had been providing 60 per cent reservation in favour of the wards of bureaucrats.
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Permalink Reply by sansan on
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It is possible.
Suppose your child is already studying in a school in Delhi (lucky you).
You are transferred from Delhi to some place, as yours is a transfereable job you know you will come back to Delhi/Some other place in a few years.
Will you take a risk of leaving the Delhi School, when you know very well that it is next to impossible to get a seat in higher classes in Delhi Pvt Schools if you come back.
This is the case for most of the people who own permanant place in Delhi or have extended family / dada dadi nana nani etc in Delhi who can take care of the child when you are away. You can come back home weekends.
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Good Observation Vikas... should be highlighted in DOE for detailed scrutiny....
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this name reflects in vasant valley also with 75 points and draw is tomm
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Permalink Reply by krishna on
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Parents of all children who have got 70 points please advise what is the solution now. Do we come to conclude that our children will not get admission this year.I am really tensed.
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Daksh Vikas is spoilt for choices. I see his name in almost all the prominent south delhi school lists Dps VV, EOk, Mothers International, Vasant Valley etc etc
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Mr Vikas, ref your case of the 'extraordinary lucky child'... with all good wishes for the child... let me opine that, your message itself shows that it is not just 'luck'. It is a clever case of manipulation, wherein the parents have managed 'transfer' category points. Surely, 75 or more pointers have much more chances in the draws than just 70 pt wallahs.
And may be also a case of counterfeit applications, since the same child cannot apply to 2 branches of the same school !
Incidentally, this particular child has his name on most schools list that have come out by now, either as 'selected' or in the immediate waiting list.
Alas, luck shines brightly on those who resort to (apparently) dubious means !
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Hi Vikas, Shailaditya,
I know the parents. They are a transfer case. You can actually apply to both DPS VV n EOP if your home falls within 8 kms of both as per the school website.
I think name in multiple schools will happen if there are marks for transfers. Let's hope the guidelines themselves are modified to exclude points for transfer. I think we should help focus our energies on the push for changing the guidelines as started by Rahul Saraf.
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Permalink Reply by SANJAY on
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I am also not satisfied with the current rules. Girl child reservation and sibling point are justified but it is beyond imagination that why transfer cases require “Special Support”. If someone is transferred to a city, he becomes part of that city like others. Also Alumni points are purely for entertaining the “emotional attachment” angle of few parents….. BUT do you think, in current scenario, a handful people's emotions matters?
All parents with 70 points are feeling cheated. These 70 points are good for nothing.
If education is for all, let’s make this competition simple & fair.
I have three things in mind what Govt. should do
i) Short term target
Make one single admission form and upload it on DOE's website.... parents will fill this form and select their choice of schools...1,2 3 or 20 whatever they want, Priorities schools obviously one will select good school in the vicinity first ...DOE will draw a lottery on the basis of priority and sends selected forms to all schools.
ii) Mid term goal
There are many Govt Schools in Delhi which need special attention, infrastructure is there but Administration and governance is missing. Let Pvt. Schools invite to run these underutilized school obviously on some terms and conditions. One term could be exemption from 25% EWS reservation. Fill your 25% seats of EWS category from General quota but give your 25% time and efforts to run these schools.
iii) And long term vision
In coming 10 years, raise the standard of govt. schools.
I am also not in favour of 25% reservation for EWS in Pvt. Schools. I see this reservation like distributing piece of cake between those who are fighting for roti. Instead throwing peanuts and saying we have done something, Govt. should focus on lifting the standard of Govt. schools.
Also, this is matter of study that what is the psychological impact on EWS child’s minds when they study with totally different children who belongs from a totally different word? AND what other learns from their EWS friends as they carry a totally different culture of their home and habitat with them.
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Surprisingly dps dwarka has 118 transfer cases in first list of 172 and school next to it (modern convent) has only 7, I suspect something going on in all dps branches.
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@Manjari - You have hit the nail on its head. Their is definitely something up with DPS's.
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Birla vidhya niketan saket got 500 transfer cases against 170 seats. People who are looking living in delhi sent ur children outside delhi because all seats will be given to those who came delhi last year.
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It seems all the big money tycoons knows where the points are and all the big schools are happy to select these application only. TRANSFER points etc are just points hidden behind the real agenda called money, donation etc......
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