Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2026-27
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HC Verdict on age criteria deferred till 21dec 2011, Can Mr Lovely bring admission guidelines before 21 dec?
Your take , without age being decided can final guidelines come ?
Affidavit
IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
WP (C) NO. 7802 OF 2011
Social Jurist, A Civil Rights Group ... Petitioner
Versus
GNCT of Delhi ..Respondent
AFFIDAVIT ON BEHALF OF RESPONDENTS
I Shashi Kaushal D/o Sh. M. K. Kaushal, aged 48 years, posted as Additional Director (Act Branch), Directorate of Education, Govt. Of NCT of Delhi, Old Secretariat, Delhi-54,
I, the above deponent do hereby solemnly state and affirm as under:-
1. That I am aware of the facts and circumstances of the case in my official capacity from the records kept in the ordinary course and am competent to swear this affidavit.
2. That this short affidavit is being filed on behalf of the respondent No. 1, GNCT of Delhi, in reply to the above noted writ petition. That at the outset the averments made in the writ petition are denied and nothing stated therein may be deemed to be admitted unless specifically so stated herein.
3. It is respectfully submitted that the issue of Nursery/Pre-Primary admissions has been dealt earlier by this Hon'ble Court in LPA No. 196/2004 WP(C) No. 12490/2006 wherein Ganguly Committee war constituted to try and find out a viable and all comprehensive policy for pre-primary education in Delhi so that admission to the pre-primary class/classes as the case may be is made homogeneous and uniform.
4. That the Ganguly Committee had submitted its Report to the Hon'ble High Court. A Copy of the given Report was also furnished to the Government of NCT of Delhi to consider the recommendations of Ganguly Committee and to take a decision in accordance with law. Thereafter, a meeting of Delhi School advisory Board was held on 19-06-2007 with regard to issues relating to admission age for Class I and regulation of pre-primary schooling, wherein the said report was discussed threadbare. Thereafter, the proposals based upon the committee report, were put up before the Cabinet.
5. That the Cabinet at its meeting date 3-09-2007 considered recommendations of the Ganguly Committee and accepted and approved that the minimum age for admission in Pre-primary and Class I will be 4+ and 5+ respectively. The cut off date for determining the age was fixed 31st March of the year in which admission is sought. For Pre-school, the schools which have infrastructural facilities were allowed to open pre-school classes for children below the age of four years. However, the pre-school classes shall not be a part of the main school nor shall be treated as feeder class to the pre-primary class of the school. The children in the pre-school should be from immediate neighborhood and there should be no school bag for carrying any prescribed books in all such pre-school classes. Further, it was also approved that the Directorate of Education will introduce one year pre-primary in Government schools.
6. The decision of the Government regarding acceptance of Ganguly Committee recommendations was placed before the Hon'ble High Court through an affidavit. The draft order of the decision of GNCT of Delhi, with regard to the procedure and criteria for admission to a pre-primary class in recognized schools of Delhi was also placed before the Hon'ble Court. The Hon'ble High Court took the draft Order on record and permitted the Government to issue the Notification in terms of the same. Thereafter, the Directorate of Education issued Order dated 24-11-2007 - The Recognized Schools (Admission Procedure for Pre-Primary Class) Order, 2007 wherein procedure and criteria for Pre-Primary admissions were laid.
7. That in pursuance to the recommendations of the Ganguly Committee, as approved by the Cabinet, the Directorate of Education has already opened Pre-Primary classes in 331 out of 382 Sarvodaya Schools. And in the remaining Sarvodaya Vidyalayas also, after making the provisions for infrastructure, wherever possible, pre-primary classes will be opened in a phased manner.
8. It is submitted that above mentioned Order dated 24-11-2007 along with the Judgments dated 26-9-2007 and 19-11-2007 passed by this Hon'ble Court in WP(C) No. 12490/2006 and LPA No. 196/2004 have been challenged before the Hon'ble Apex Court. It is submitted that batch of 5 SLPs(SLP(C)No.24617-18/2007,SLP(C)NO.24622/2007,SLP(C) NO.24624/2007,SLP( C ) NO.14833/2008 and SLP( C ) NO. 14839/2008) are still pending consideration before the Hon'ble Supreme Court.
9. The Section 11 of the RTE Act, 2009 which came into force w.e.f. 1-04-2010, provides that:-
" With a view to prepare children above the age of three years for elementary education and to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years, the appropriate Government may make necessary arrangement for providing free pre-school education for such children."
10. That the Guidelines/Rules regarding Pre-school can be worked out after detailed discussions and consultations with experts and stakeholders and in view of the provisions of RTE Act and challenge against the order dated 24/11/2007 in the Hon'ble Supreme Court.
That in view of the submissions made above, it is most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may pass such orders and/ or directions as it deems fit, just and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case. The deponent is duty bound to honour the same.
DEPONENT
VERIFICATION
Verified at New Delhi on this 14 day of December, 2011, that the contents of my above affidavit are true and correct to my knowledge and belief, no part thereof is false and nothing material has been concealed there from.
DEPONENT
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by 1john11fkrmx8 on
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this situation is bad. Court will give some judgement for which neither schools nor parents would be prepared. I don't understand why mr agarwal had to file petition in November and not in march , April or may. Regardless if your kid is 3 plus and age is changed to 4 , then he may not get admission to kg or pre primary next year as schools would say they already have students from nursery and they can't change the curriculum so fast. So best way forward is become a part of pil and request court to maintain status quo. I am planning to do the same if some people join me and can be contacted on 9560114040 /Kai_ash@yahoo.co.in. Let's act fast as time is running out
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Permalink Reply by 04ccj28gj3g0i on
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I don't care whether Govt. set the age at 3+ or 4+,i can comply with any of the options. But the thing that makes me angry is the entire episode has been made to linger on and on. Come out with guidelines at the earliest, so that parents can take their decisions.
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Reference clause no 5 of govt affidavit reproduced above. On one side, cabinet decides to allow for pre primary & class 1st at 4+ & 5+ respectively, on other end it opens loose end for private schools which are bound by only one concern that is making money. It also says the preschool may be opened by the schools with adequate infrastructure of which, almost all private schools have taken benefit & taking admission in preschool at the age of 3+. However, private schools, for their convenience (and in fact commercial motives) bypassing the caveat clause of "preschool not to be used as feeder to pre primary school". They are in fact using these preschools as feeder classes to preprimary as otherwise, if not mandatory, no parents (or most of them) would send their wards to preschools and thus, private schools will be loosing on their huge money that they are minting from preschool.
Govt, by leaving this loose end, have it seems played in the hands of private schools, and it could have done much good by keeping a fix age limit commensurate with the class i.e. 4+ years with preprimary and abolishing in totality the system of pre primary.regards
Ajay jain
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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@Ajay your interpretation is 101% correct
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The fact is that nothing is going to change. Though govt says that preschools should not be used as feeder for KG, who will ascertain that? and how? This whole admission process is so opaque, how would we know that kids from their preschool were not given preference over others?
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Guys that's the problem, pre schools won't go away as money is involved, you cant abolish nursery without having an appropriate pre primary infrastructure and rules. So any tinkering with age and then not changing pre primary rules which need to have buy in from schools , confusion will break loose. That's why I suspect the timing of the pil and that too concerning age only and not the admission mechanism
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In today's news paper it was confirmed by the high court that the official age for the admission of a child in Nursery is 4 years and the kids who have got admission in nursery last year when they were 3 years old will have to repeat another year in the same standard..so do we think that the Government & Administration have listen to our pleed ... Please comment
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Permalink Reply by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster) on
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Dear Goldie
No its school lobby R C jain ..trying to confuse..no need to panic. Kids would be promoted by default we are 101% sure
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Dear Mr Vohra
Please advise as we are very confused about this school admissions.
Our son will be 3+ by this Feb 2012, will he be eligible for school admissions
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Dear Rohit
No need to panic ..final verdict on 21 dec on age !!
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Hi sakshi/ Mr. vohra
It all seems to be very confusing
please guide whether it is 4+ or still contemplation is being done.from the affidavit it is clear it should be 4+ but if we read these media articles "Parents to get only 12 days for admission |Nursery Adm in fix as parents who got admitted in nursery might suffer LAST YR |(WE DON'T ENDORSE THIS NEWS) AS HC WILL EXEMPT LAST YEAR KIDS & PROMOTE THEM" it seems it is decided in favour of 4 +-----------please clear this grey area. Why such articles are using language as if the decision has been made.
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