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Nursery admissions in Delhi are a mess - The Sunday Guardian

Nursery admissions in Delhi are a mess

For the first time, the academic session has not yet begun for nursery classes in Delhi’s private-unaided schools.

ith no state government in place, nursery admissions in the capital have become a mess. For the first time, the academic session has not yet begun for nursery classes in Delhi's private-unaided schools. Three stays put on admissions in this month, two by the High Court and one by the Supreme Court, have left parents clueless as to when their children will be able to start school. The anxious parents have now pinned their hopes on 21 April, when the apex court is expected to give some clarity on the issue.

Shantanu Mehrotra, a resident of South Delhi, has been struggling for two years to get his four-year-old daughter admitted to school. "I had applied to 25 schools last year, but could secure admission in none. This year I applied to 23 schools and finally got a seat in one. We bought the uniform, bag, shoes and books, when the stay came. If the court asks the schools to carry out a draw of lots again, it will be unfair to all the people who had secured admission in the first place," said Mehrotra. He has already paid the school fee of around Rs 1.2 lakh including tuition fee of Rs 46,000 for a quarter and Rs 50,000 for extra-curricular activities, for two years. As per the school's policy, half of the tuition fee is refundable however the sum for other activities is non-refundable. "It will be a big loss for my child's future education, if we miss admission this year as well," Mehrotra added.

Ricky Khurana, based in west Delhi, broke all records applying to 56 city schools. "I left everything and sat online every day for a month to apply to various schools. My son finally got a seat in a good school, but the admissions were stayed. I have lost my peace of mind taking leave from work for the last four months to run around to get my son to school," he said.

The Apex court had passed the recent stay order in response to a petition filed by those parents who had come to the national capital from other parts of the country and sought admission under the inter-state transfer (IST) category, which was deleted during the admission process by the Delhi government owing to its abuse on a large scale.

"There is a lot of discrepancy in the data of seats provided by the schools to the Directorate of Education (DoE) on the basis of which the court will give its verdict. Admissions to IST category seats were scrapped on 27 February by the HC. However, the seats that were vacated thereafter have not been displayed by the schools. Despite these seats being vacant, the schools have announced admissions closed with no second or third list," Madhu Sachdeva, a parent, told this newspaper.

A.K. Pandey, principal, Ahlcon International School, said, "The LG's guidelines on the current admission cycle have added to the confusion and panic among parents. In all likelihood, if the 21 April verdict is delayed, the chances of beginning classes before summer vacations are weak."

He added that the problem of nursery admissions is manifold. "Firstly, there are only one lakh nursery seats in private schools in the city for which there are over four lakh applicants every year. Also, the distribution of schools in each area is not uniform. There are discrepancies with the selection criteria too."

Sumit Vohra, who runs admissionsnursery.com, an online forum to help parents, said, "This admission cycle has created history with multiple litigations by parents. Over 20 notifications released by the DoE, a couple of stay orders by the court and there is still no clarity as to when and which children will be able to start school. Also, if the session does not start next month, are the schools justified in taking the fee for this quarter?" The LG's office was unavailable to comment.

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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on April 20, 2014 at 4:33pm

The mess was created mainly by our LG with IST. Earlier IST was also in practice excluding transfers to NCR. This was the turning point and nightmare for parents, schools and now to govt. machinery also. Another blunder was awarding equal and maximum points to distance for 6 kms and which was increased to 8 kms.

While extending the limit of distance, amendments was needed to these guidelines with other criterion also. Anyone framing guidelines must be blamed for the flaws. Genius parents are also to be blamed who did not show their wisdom initially and now keeping them aside with the reply we were not aware of such a bad result.

Third mistake was committed by HC which did not play the justified judgement and left scope for SC. Lastly major blame goes to the DoE who did not share knowledge and experience with LG while framing and modifying guidelines.

Concluding the above, the most sufferers are the small kids waiting and waiting for their schools. Another category of sufferers are the parents who are still in disguise. Other category is the schools who are left with hardly no options and targeted with immature speculations.

The last sufferer is this forum AN.com who spares its valuable time to comment back and remains available for parents among whom some even do not hesitate to put forth personal supermacy over others and even at times seen crossing limits and invite criticisms, thus gooing against the decorum of this forum and their inheritaged culture.

Last but not the least, appeal to every member of this forum to respect each other so that maximum benefit can be availed from this forum. We all should agree with the Time proving to be the successful medicine for every disease. Let us wait for the time who is waiting with beautiful gift to everyone in this beautiful world to make your more n more beautiful.

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Permalink Reply by SACHHIN SAPRA on April 21, 2014 at 12:34am

COMPLETLY AGREE WITH YOU.

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Permalink Reply by NEETU SINGH on April 21, 2014 at 7:59am

Dear sakshi hi what's latest update regarding admissions??

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Permalink Reply by 17ji0oic8brou on April 21, 2014 at 8:16am

Hearing in sc today????

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on April 21, 2014 at 9:13am

Dear All

Not listed for today 21 Apr in SC cause List .

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Permalink Reply by Babita Rawat on April 21, 2014 at 10:09am

Dear Sakshi

One question please, is there no other way, we parents can do something in this situation. Because just waiting for HC and SC orders is not acceptable to me.