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MOST LIKELY Delhi education minister says no changes in nursery guidelines| However, admission age currently under review ; HINDUSTAN TIMES DT 8 NOV PAGE 4

MOST LIKELY Delhi education minister says no changes in guidelines; HINDUSTAN TIMES DT 8 NOV PAGE 4

However, admission age currently under review LAST YEAR'S GUIDELINES WERE BASED ON RTE ACT AND RESERVED 25% SEATS FOR ECONOMICALLY WEAKER SECTIONS
While many parents may be hoping for some changes in nursery admission guidelines this year, these are most likely going to remain the same as last year.

Delhi education minister, Arvinder Singh on Monday said that there are going to be no changes in the guidelines and that they are expected to be notified by the end of this month. The criterion of admission age, however, is under review by the court currently.

An NGO had filed a petition in the high court last week, saying that three years is too young for admission to Nursery.

The court has asked the Delhi government for a reply regarding the plea by November 23.

“The guidelines will remain the same. We are not introducing any change. The court has only asked us for an explanation regarding the age,“ said Singh.

Though many experts, including HRD minister Kapil Sibal, have maintained that nursery admission should be done at the age of four, Singh has maintained that this step would disadvantage Delhi students as they will pass class 12 at the age of 18, a year later than students from many other states.

Last year's guidelines were based on the Right to Education (RTE) Act and reserved 25% seats for those belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS).

Out of the remaining 75%, 20% were reserved as the school's management quota and 5% for children of school staff.

Mandatory points were to be given on the basis of four categories -siblings, alumni, single parents and transfer cases.
Schools were also given the freedom to include other categories such as neighbourhood and girl child.

The clauses that faced the most flak were points for alumni and the school's management quota.

“According to the RTE Act, schools cannot give or deny admission on the basis of education, income and profession of parents. But giving points from alumni enables schools, especially the high-profile ones to do just that,“ said Sumit Vohra, who owns the website admissionsnursery.com, a website that has 35000 parents as members.

“By giving high points for alumni schools are enabled to screen students. They can easily judge the income level and the education of parents, something that the RTE Act prohibits,“ he added.

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Permalink Reply by 1vt9gpzvr0il5 on November 8, 2011 at 3:54pm

Dear Narinder Ji Thanks for writing , I would like to highlight that state like West Bengal allows kids to be admitted in class one only at the age of 6+ . There no school is allowed to have nursery if they have facilites of class 1 and further.

Regards

Asim

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Permalink Reply by Narinder Arora on November 8, 2011 at 3:57pm

Thanks AsimJi for bringing it up - We need to tell the minister these facts as he says that Delhi would be left behind other states if children are admitted at the age of 4+ in nursery

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Permalink Reply by 1f7gulsld1c0a on November 9, 2011 at 3:46pm

hi sir u r right its a hightime to unite together and raise the issue to stop the discrimination against the single boy child whose parents live happily together.

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Permalink Reply by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster) on November 10, 2011 at 9:34am

Dear Richa

Yes we can start an appeal campaign after notification on point system being issued by DOE which is expected by the end of this month and moreover we have to wait till 23 NOV for High Court decision on age criteria

Mr Lovely keeps changing his statements..we cannot do anything on his verbal statements ..the day he issues official guidelines ..we can start signature campaign !!

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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on November 8, 2011 at 4:45pm

Mr.Lovely says no change in nursery guidelines. Has he slept for an year and just woke up as if nothing happened during that period. Atleast CM should have interfered in this matter. Govt. has not realised the importance of early childhood education and has totally ignored. Last year many parents has suffered a lot due to the flaws in point system followed and Mr.Vohra too has brought all the needed changes to be taken to the DOE and Mr.Krishnamoorthy then the Education Director has also accepted the mistakes and promised necessary changes will be taken. Atleast the present Director should have followed it. Without necessary changes again nursery admission guidelines would be a total failure. Mr.Lovely should take remedial measure immediately. As Sakshi Mam told Alumini points should be removed completely. Lot of changes has to be taken in other parameters too. If schools are given full autonomy again there won't be any second list at all this time too and it will pave way for schools to prosper as a business centre.

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Permalink Reply by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster) on November 8, 2011 at 5:23pm

Dear Lathaaji,

I concur with you and Mr lovely is himself confused about the age criteria... The PIL in court is regarding having only one year of preprimary education before 1st grade and not increasing the nursery age from 3 yrs to 4 yrs !!

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Permalink Reply by 0w282uktn9jfe on November 9, 2011 at 10:37am

why education min is trying to mislead the parents

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Permalink Reply by Rajiv on November 14, 2011 at 11:42pm

Sumit Ji this is the same story every year..... Ministers/ Government keep on adding confusion so that we can not actually take any concrete steps. The need is to correct this system which is not possible in the Month of November and December , its rather a process which should start now and force government to change atleast in the next academic year. So we need to stand together and force the officials for us to be heard.... Its high time that we realise our rights and role for the society we live in.

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Permalink Reply by Narinder Arora on November 15, 2011 at 9:38am

Absolutely lets start right now

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Permalink Reply by 0ymr6denidfbc on November 15, 2011 at 9:06am

Ridiculous….. When parents wants their kids to go to school at 4+….. When many surveys say 4+…… When many reports say the same 4+….. When even ministers of same Govt. says 4+….. When courts want this too, 4+…..Then who the hell want it to be 3+?

Is the intentions of ministers are clear by this stand? The chadawa(hari patti) from stackholders must have already reached them so that to keep it to 3+…… Are they really concerned about our children? NO….they don’t concern about our children or any of us….. All they want Money Money and more Money….. It is the game of money thats keeping them to raise the age limit to 4+, otherwise I see no hurdles in implementation….All the statements like "Delhi children will be at loss in future" are all absurd and made to confuse parents….. HELLO….MR LOVELY… Read between the lines. Court asked to raise the age to 4+ and keep nursery education for 1 year only so child will be in 1^st class when he is 5+….. What’s so difficult to understand in this?

Only driving force that wants them to say 3+ is money. We are helpless, MOST CORRUPT GOVT OF ALL TIME doing everything they can to make our life difficult.

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Permalink Reply by Narinder Arora on November 15, 2011 at 9:39am

Nice Comments ManuJi - Lets take pledge to correct things this year onwards - I have already started working towards it - lets join hands and work as a team to be more effective

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Permalink Reply by 0ymr6denidfbc on November 15, 2011 at 9:53am

I would gladly be an active participant if you are doing anything against this autocracy.....Consider me IN ......

I urge from all parents to please join hands and do something about it....One alone may not be able to do much, but when MANY raise ONE voice then they can’t ignore us.... We had seen an example recently that shock the Govt. and compelled PM himself to act upon it.

So, what’s the plan? Let’s gather somewhere or meet or send letters or protest to show "Mr. Lovely and Associates" what we want!!!!

Thanks,

Manu Dhawan