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TOI~The Delhi high court on Friday issued notice to the LG on a PIL challenging the latest nursery admission guidelines on the ground it clubs the economically weaker section (EWS) catego
PIL seeks 3% nursery seats for children with disability
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New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday issued notice to the lieutenant governor on a PIL challenging the latest nursery admission guidelines on the ground it clubs the economically weaker section (EWS) category with that of children with disabilities.
A bench of Justice Ravindra Bhat and R V Easwar also issued notice to Centre and Delhi government’s education department on the plea that also wants 3% seats for children with disabilities in aided and unaided private schools in Delhi. Posting the case for February 25 to hear the plea further, HC asked the LG to apprise the court on what steps have been taken to keep a quota for disabled children in schools since earlier guidelines provided the same.
Appearing for the state government, advocate Zubeda Begum informed HC she will seek instruction from the LG on the issue. The LG had on December 18 last year issued fresh guidelines. According to the petitioner, the guidelines erred in treating disabled group of children together with children of economically weaker section to provide them a common 25% quota in nursery admissions.
Challenging the decision, the petition termed the move “unreasonable” as the challenges faced by these two classes of children differ greatly. “Both category faces different challenges, especially from the point of view of education where much greater care and attention is required to be given to children with disabilities whereas children from economically weaker sections can more easily assimilate with the general category of students as they do not suffer from any form of cognitive or learning disability,” the counsel for the petitioner argued.
The counsel said the interest of children with special needs or disabilities have been “completely ignored” in the attempt by the authorities concerned to make free education available to as many children as possible.
The petition further informed HC that as per the data available out of 237 (Provided by AdmissionsNursery.com) schools in Delhi only 43 schools have capability to cater the needs of disabled children. “It is also a matter of very serious concern that only a few schools have the necessary infrastructure to cater to the needs of such children, despite directions to such schools by the high court to provide the necessary infrastructure. Therefore also, such children stand to be completely disadvantaged,” the plea contended, seeking quashing of the amendment to Section 2(d) of the Right to Education Act, 2009 for clubbing the two categories.
WRITES TO HRD MINISTRY
DoE seeks directions on free seats
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New Delhi: The Directorate of Education has written to the ministry of human resource development for directions on admissions into the 25% freeship quota in private unaided schools. Complaints from parents of disabled children started pouring in once the application process—following the new nursery guidelines based on the order of the lieutenant governor—began.
The 25% free seats are for economically weaker sections (EWS) and also disadvantaged groups (DG), including scheduled castes and tribes, other backward classes, differentlyabled (or “special needs”) children and, from last year, orphans. When the government fixed the parameters for private unaided schools, differently-abled children got neither quota nor points as, in theory, the RTE Act-mandated 25% seats took care of it. In practice, it’s left this category with close to zero chances of securing seats.
The 25% seats may be meant for a number of different groups but candidates are chosen through a single draw. The case of Tagore International, East of Kailash, illustrates this. “There are 1,200 EWS applications for 44 seats. Of these, 450 are residing within 1km,” says principal Suman Nath. “The seats are very few. One Vasant Kunj school told us there will be just one draw and there are many applications from within the first kilometre. We live about 6km from the school,” said a parent. Another is considering legal action.
“We wrote to the ministry about 10 days ago,” says Padmini Singla, director, education, “That’s when the complaints started coming. We had to take it up with MHRD because RTE Act is applicable for admissions into the 25% seats and the ministry has to decide.” The department hasn’t received any reply yet.
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Permalink Reply by Mrs Mehta on
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My daughter has had two majr surgeries and when i conveyed to the prin
cipal he just overheard
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Join Amita Garg. i don't know whether you fall in special needs case.
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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on
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I also agree with the PIL. There should be separate reservation for DG category also like job reservations for various classes. Say 30% reservation for OBC applicants in govt. jobs. Clubbing both EWS and DG is really discriminatory as truly depicted in PIL. The status of prevailing physical and economical condition differs with EWS, therefore, PIL is justified and should be heared favourably.
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I fully agree with the PIL.
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One moe issuue worth bringing up is that Sanskriti School has kept its own distance criteria for Disadvantaged group to be 1 km radius only which is very ridiculous.No school can hv its own seperate criteria and 1 km is just nothing.They r flouting the guidelines.
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Very true... EWS category is basically meant to Economicaly Weaker Section of the society, i.e., for parents earning less than 1 lac per year. Hence, govt. subsidised for their education.
Whereas other sections of the society like Single Parent, SC/ST, Children with special needs require a quota in the total seats and not the free seats as their parents are in a position to pay for the school of their choice.
Therefore, it should be like this:
15% seats - EWS/Orphans quota No Fees
5% seats - Staff No fees
10% seats - SC / ST/OBC category Normal Fees
5% seats - Minority category Normal Fees
3% seats - Children with disabilities Normal Fees
2% seats - Single Parent Normal Fees
50% seats - General Category Normal Fees
10% seats - Management category High Fees (No donation) to subsidise fees for all other categories
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