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Noida schools cash in on Delhi nursery admission delay
Noida schools cash in on Delhi nursery admission delay
With Delhi nursery admissions stuck in a web of confusion, private schools in Noida and Greater Noida are seizing the opportunity.For instance, DPS Noida has added one more section for 30 children this month in nursery.
“We completed the final list on Wednesday. An email has been sent to the parents of selected students. The last date for fee submission is March 18,” said Kamini Bhasin, principal, DPS, Sector 30, Noida.
The nursery admissions in Delhi have been put on hold till March 24.
“We are still admitting students for the nursery class. Around 60 seats are vacant in our school. We have saved some seats for Delhi students,” said Pramod Sharma, Genesis Global School, Sector 132, Noida- Greater Noida expressway.
The nursery admission process in Noida and Greater Noida was over by end of December. Many private schools save seats for Delhi students every year but this year the process is stretching till late.
“There are 40-50 seats left in our school for nursery. The only criteria to select a student will be the first come first serve basis,” said Indira Kohli, principal, DPS Noida-Greater Noida expressway.
Step by Step school has closed its admission process for the year 2014-2015. But many schools are still open.
Parents in Delhi who are hassled with the nursery admissions process have a chance to secure a seat in Noida schools.
“Our admission calendar starts from August and we have increased one more section this year. There are 96 seats for nursery and the admission process is still going on,” said Lotamudra Sengupta, admission coordinator, Pathways school, Sector 100, Noida- Greater Noida Expressway.
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List-less parents in agony
The immediate response to the stay on nursery admissions till March 24 on Wednesday was all-round confusion. Parents tried to work out who — if anyone — will get to keep a seat and who's likely to get another chance.
"I got a seat in the redraw," says Digvijay Singh, a Saket parent who secured a seat in the draw conducted after the second set of guidelines was issued. "If I lose that seat after March 24, I will go to court. Why will they listen to the other group of parents and not me?" The group of parents who had filed the petition were the ones who were going to lose seats due to the new draw for all 70-pointers - applicants with points for distance.
"Schools, children and parents —all are suffering. Even a TV soap has less twists and turns than this year's nursery admission drama. It's really agonizing for a parent to leave all other work and just keep checking schools and web pages every week for a new draw list," writes a parent on admissionsnursery.com. It's owner, Sumit Vohra, says that the March 7 guidelines — ordering redraws for all 70-pointers and issued after the scrapping of distance points — had led to many schools conducting fresh lotteries even for the 5% girls' quota. "This is ultimate torture. Some people are constantly challenging policies and the governing bodies are also not using their judgment to bring this misery to an end," he says.
"If admission does happen in April, I'll be paying fees for the entire quarter. By then there will be summer vacations and my child would have hardly been to school," says Digvijay Singh.
"We all want this to be over now," says Shilpa. "My colleagues are telling me to go and sit in court now." A fashion designer, her work's been suffering for over a month and travel plans have had to be shelved. Shilpa, along with some other parents, had filed one of the two petitions against transfer cases in February but hadn't quite expected this turn of events. She managed a seat - she'd got alumni points at one school - but is, like everyone else, worried that yet another upheaval is in the offing. As testament to the soaring stress levels, there was a furore at a north Delhi school on Wednesday when the same name was called out twice at a draw.
Edu dept has issued around 15 notifications on the admission process this year
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court’s decision to stay the nursery admission process has once again caused deep anguish among parents whose children are set to join school this year.
This is for the first time ever that nursery admissions have dragged on for such a long time in the city.
The parents who followed all guidelines have suffered the most.
“I don’t understand where we went wrong. We have followed all rules, submitted all documents and have done it on time. The matter, however, is far from being resolved. We still don’t know whether our daughter will go to school today or not,” said Preeti Varma, whose daughter has been admitted to a school already but her admission hangs in the balance.
In previous years, the admission process usually got over by March 31. In fact, admissions under the first and second lists were completed by mid-February.
Around 15 notifications have already been issued by the Directorate of Education on various aspects of the admission process this year. The first of these was issued on December 18 when the guidelines were issued, while the last was issued on March 7 when the new admission schedule was declared.
Parents, on the other hand, have had enough.
“I think the court and governments are playing with the lives of small children. We as parents are so stressed and the children are not immune. Is it right to toy with their future like this? I took two weeks off in January especially to ensure I handle the admission process calmly. The process has dragged on for three months now and there is no end in sight. Why can’t the court just come to a decision that is binding on all parties? All petitions and litigation should be combined and a collective decision should be taken,” said Manpreet Singh, a parent who has been running from pillar to post for the last three months.
It is not just those parents whose children have to go to school this year that are worried. Even those whose children will turn three after April this year are worried.
“I hope the court and the government resolve this mess by next year. Some good must come out of all this litigation and plethora of notifications,” said Padmini Rao, mother of a two-year-old.
A large number of complaints and reactions to the court order were also seen online. Within an hour’s time, thousands of parents commented and complained about the massive delay in the process at admissionsnursery.com, a popular portal for parents.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Samar Shadab on
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all hell has already broken loose, i don't see any judgment satisfying all the parents!
if the court says to consider candidates selected in the first draw, then the ones selected in second draw/total redraw are ready to file a PIL (i have read in a comment) and if they continues with the total redraw, then the parents of the children selected in pre-28th feb draw are put in mental agony again for no fault of theirs.
why can't corruption be handled in this country??? this is all because of those smarty-pant parents who took undue advantage of 5 transfer points either by making transfer orders on company letterhead (which is very easy in private companies) or the ones who took transfer because they were lured by the LG "come and we will give you preference in admission in our top schools by giving you extra 5 points because you did us a favor by coming to Delhi" WHY DID LG DO THIS??? OK what has been done can't be reversed now, but innocent parents are going through mental trauma since 2 months because of this!!!
fake EWS and age certificates are made by the govt offices themselves, many sting operations has shown this! wake up LG and DoE and HON' HIGH COURT!!!
FAKE TRANSFER, FAKE EWS AND MAYBE SCHOOLS ARE ADMITTING WARDS OF PARENTS AGREEING ON DONATION ON FAKE SIBLING SEATS!!!
i can see only one solution to these kind of fakes, bring arvind kejrival back to power as he was the only one who was against corruption in this country!!!
P.S. sorry AN.COM for my outburst and associating this issue with politics, but his is a very harsh reality.
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Permalink Reply by 2tf0cxncipmcw on
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In the last decade the population of Delhi has multiplied and our so called previous efficient congress govt never bothered to allot land for even a single school that too in such a densely populated state " Delhi". Look at noida the densety of local resident population is very less still the number of schools is increasing regularly. There is still a huge supply of institutional land, both in noida and Gurgaon.
Noida and Gurgaon schools will definitely encash from this mess.
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What would be court's decision on 24th.any idea. Many schools have already conducted redraw and that too for all kids. What will happen to this draw. Mr sumit vohra pls take this further that the schools which have already conducted redraw for all kids need not conduct it again. And schools which still have not conducted a redraw for all kids should do it. Post this no further mess should be created and all should abide this.
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I M TOTALY AGREE WITH YOU ABHISHIKTA....
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I agree to the point that the schools who have done the fair draw against all the parents and even made the video recording of full selection process which I believe, was quite fair and transparent like Sachdeva Public School, Pitam Pura, Heritage Rohini. Thus such schools should not fall under the category of re-draw. However, if redraw needs to happen, it should happen only for those schools who have not followed the transparent draws..
Mr. Vohra, this is my request to you to take this point forward and save all the parents whose children have been selected in such a fair/transparent draws.
Thanks.
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Yes those schools which have done redraws in transparent way shd not undone it as injustice will be done to the selected children as law equal for all of us and not only those who are after destroying of whole admission pressure as we as parents are under such pressure and pain and those who don't have anything bcoZ they r mostly not of Delhi that why they against alumni
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Permalink Reply by mahesh jain on
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Schools are enjoying and taking advantage of this whole chaos and mess... the only suffwrs are parents....
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Permalink Reply by Suresh Kumar Shukla on
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I just hope that whatever HC decides on 24th, they also term it final and ban any more PILs regarding this year's admissions. Rest of the issues should be addressed after the admission process so that this mess doesn't happen next year..
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This all is not going to stop unless and until proper solution is taken out, there should be 2 shifts in the schools as the schools are less and also seats should be increased and more schools should be build,also first child preference should also be there.
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People shd understand that those drawn done should not be undone now as parents we are on the same boat and again undone is a total injustice to those selected.... :(
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The ones responsible for this mess are the ones who claimed fake transfers - they should be barred from the admission process this year.
What values are such parents imparting to their children when their foundation of education is being started on a fake transfer certificate?
The situation is indeed getting out of hands. I really feel the first draw should hold good and the seats vacated because of abolishing of transfer points should be given off by means of a new draw.
The genuine transfer cases should file a FIR against the fake transfer ones and not against the system at all as that is giving sleepless nights to honest parents who did not fake any claim to get their wards admitted in schools.
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So true
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