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Plea likely against partial redraw | Don’t contest other criteria: HC to parents Times of India - 1 Mar

Plea likely against partial redraw

NURSERY ADMISSION TROUBLES DON’T END YET

Shreya Roy Chowdhury TNN

New Delhi: There may be more legal action coming on nursery admissions. At least some transfer cases may go to court, not against the withdrawal of points, but against the decision allowing some to hang on to their seats.
    Waitlisted candidates, too, are anxious. The guidelines, they say, don’t clarify whether existing wait-lists are to be scrapped while its members participate in other draws.
    “I made sure I moved in time for the admissions,” says Kumar Saurabh who moved from Mumbai in 2013. “I got new voter ID cards, changed the address on my wife’s passport and updated our Aadhaar cards. I wasn’t expecting any points for transfer. But I saw the new guidelines were good.” Figuring that the points for transfer improved his chances significantly, Saurabh applied to a “limited number of schools”. His son was selected at three.
    Saurabh informs that schools, especially after protests over transfer cases, became so vigilant that he was asked to furnish many documents other than those prescribed by the Directorate of Education. “We thought the first guidelines were progressive. Later, we believed when DoE scraps transfer points, they’ll come up with something rational. They haven’t.”
    His fears coincide exactly with 70-pointers (applicants with only distance points). “At one Vasant Kunj school, there’s a draw for hundreds of 75-pointers for 63 seats. If you remove transfer cases, the batch will be of siblings and alumni,” Saurabh says.
    Several parents and activists have been demanding “capping” of the number of seats that can go to these categories. “You should have similarly scrapped 20 points for sibling and five points for alumni or at least a cap should have been put on them as suggested by the Ganguly Committee in its IInd Report to the Delhi high court in 2007,” lawyer-activist Ashok Agarwal wrote to the LG on Friday.

“Parents with genuine transfer points say they will get one chance in the lottery while others will get more. Since technically all lists are provisional, on what ground can waitlist candidates be rejected?” Sumit Vohra of admissionsnursery .com says.

Don’t contest other criteria: HC to parents

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New Delhi: The Delhi government on Friday informed Delhi high court that it has done away with points for interstate transfer cases of children seeking admission in nursery classes.
    “The writ petition was essentially filed against the grant of points reserved for interstate transfer category. The Delhi government informed us that the provision of five points for interstate transfer cases has been done away with and a fresh notification been issued. In view of this, no further direction is needed. The writ petition stands disposed,” a bench headed by acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed said.
    During the hearing, the bench asked petitioner Rohit Nagpal and other parents not to widen the scope of the petition by challenging other admission criteria. It, however, asked the parents to approach the single judge bench for other grievances related to the nursery admission process. The single bench, which was hearing a similar plea, had disposed of the petition.
    toi .reporter @timesgroup .com

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Permalink Reply by Virendra Sharma on March 1, 2014 at 5:13pm

Those who are selected in first draw were rarest of rare ... Bcoz transfer cases left just 10-20 seats out of 4K to 5K applicants ...plz join hands ... Our probability of getting seats was minimal due to limited seats ... We should observe and raise any concerns at right time if redraw happens for all... Connect me at virsha at gmail

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Permalink Reply by Amit Kumar Verma on March 1, 2014 at 6:05pm

Each 70 pointer who got a confirmed seat should post they got selected out of how many seats offered to them out of total number of seats in a school and the number of seats which was taken by transfer cases. The number of seats taken by transfer cases and the number of seats given to 70 pointers in entire delhi will project if it is really worth a redraw.

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Permalink Reply by IMRAN REHMAN KHAN on March 1, 2014 at 6:29pm

can somebody please tell me how come the schools like st.columbus, st.xavier, Bal bharti public school, st.michael's etc have already put up a final list on 28th when the draw has to happen again..

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Permalink Reply by krishna on March 1, 2014 at 6:32pm

Redraw should be done for equal justice to every child either selected or not or waitlisted

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Permalink Reply by krishna on March 1, 2014 at 6:47pm

Its very difficult to check with the school website for the update as many schools still not updated their website after the scrapped of interstate transfer point

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Permalink Reply by Sugandha on March 1, 2014 at 7:30pm

DAV Shrestha Vihar did redraw for 32 general seats today.

What i want to highlight is that in their earlier girl quota draw they didnt include the already selected 75 pointer(transfer cases) girl candidates and the girl quota draw was done only for 70 pointers.

And now they are not doing the girl quota draw again.

The transfer case girl candiates are missing out on the girl quota as well this way.

THERE SHOULD BE A REDRAW FOR GIRL QUOTA AS WELL IF 75 POINTER GIRLS WERE NOT INCLUDED.