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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 Meenu on
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Truly written .... The condition is similar in delhi universities ..... Where children from delhi itself won't get admission .... So if u r from delhi and it ur first child , forget that ur child will get admission Ina school in delhi ........ Better leave delhi and try somewhere else .... All thanks to foolish rules made by mr najeeb Jung that delhites will now look for admission in other states and those from gurgaon , noida will happily get admission in delhi
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I feel the same that we have to leave Delhi to get our child admitted in a good school because the guidelines in Delhi are most vague and absurd. Transfer cases /alumni/ sibling points parents can only get admission. Where will the others go? Transfer points should not have been there at all this means people from other states are getting more privilidge than those residing in Delhi. Inspite of applying in 20 schools I feel my daughter will not get admission in any school. I am so disturbed.
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We are second grade citizens in our own city.
May it be university or school admission, story remains the same. Why should we taxes if we receive such differential treatment. This is worse than reservation.
Tax payers do not get any preference. Look at schools like Sanskriti why do civil servents get preference . they get grant from tax payers money and then they screw us. Let civil servant only apply to Sanskriti.
We are only left with leftover.
Cheers
Thanks AAP, when there was time to act you ran away.
We will always remain a country of snake charmers and leave every thing on god because merit does not count here.
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Permalink Reply by meenu saggu on
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@Rahul Singhal...very well said we will always remain a country of snake charmers becoz there are no plans for the upcoming generations not even enough good schools and they talk about right to education!
no new land has been granted to build schools in Delhi but, there seems to be enough land to build high end malls!!
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I am interested in filling a PIL against this, request the parents to please join in.
Or if any group is already in process, request to please share details so that more parents can join.
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I agree with Rahul singhal
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Permalink Reply by SANJAY on
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I agree with rahul. I don't understand the need of special support to transfer cases.
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We had been so excited to hear when the LG defined guidelines in dec'13 . We thought delhi has become transparent in terms of admissions now nd no mngt quota wil grant admissions to middle class families like us . But now this system itself is too tedious nd 70points guarantee admissions nowhere .. I am just too stressed and disappointed lik other 70pointers kids and wonder where would we go . Nursery admissions are right to every kid and every kid has a right to go to a school . Do not know if this year my kid will get admissions .. Though I hav around 10schools within 2km radius ..with 0percent scope in any !!
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I feel that there should be management quota, why should the schools bear the brunt of the in-capabilities of the govt. Education business (to the best of my knowledge) is a not for profit business in India i.e. schools have to reinvest the profits back in the business. So this helps in expansion. How else would schools be able to open more branches if they cannot make profits. We cant depend on the govt. to open schools.
You cannot force anyone to do business on such terms and if they are not able to make money they will shut shops and leave what then?
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Permalink Reply by VIKAS LODHI on
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The child with exordinary luck....
We have draw of lot for DPS RK puram for VK and EOK .. at 9 pm and 2 pm and the person got name in both with same adress number in transfer category
E141513787VD DAKSH VIKAS V141512937VD DAKSH VIKAS-VV This is thought for all of us .. what is going on transfer points
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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i think parents can unite and we will have more parent lawyer on forum.As one set of parents have no more room left for petition.
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if you check lists of various school ... there are few child who are getting sibling as well as transfer points ... how their elder child is attending the school if they are transferred to other places ...thought to ponder
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