Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2026-27
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Mr Vohra highlights plight of parents who applied in more than 10 schools in FULL PAGE STORY BEFORE PROTEST MARCH - MAIL TODAY 6 FEB 2011
Parents who tried to beat the odds fairly and failed |
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By Ritika Chopra in New Delhi |
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Long hours of legwork didn’t fetch their kids enough points THE LONG road to secure admission to nursery for their kids this year looks to have left parents a little more exasperated than usual. Despite their best efforts — some parents hedged their bets and applied to as many as 15 schools — the hours of patient legwork and filling out forms have failed to bear fruit. Consequently, they are left with no other option but to keep their kids in the neighbourhood playschool for another year and hope for a better result during the next admission cycle. MAIL TODAY profiles three couples who tried to improve their odds — by applying to 10 or more schools — and still found themselves short on points. BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW SHE LEFT no stone unturned and applied to 14 schools for her son’s admission to nursery. “ But even that wasn’t enough,” said Sushma Bhardwaj ( 33), a resident of Saket, who runs her own digital marketing firm. On February 1, she discovered that her son Aryan had not been selected anywhere — even though her selection of schools was a mix of sought- after and not- so- popular institutions and were all within 5 km of her house. “ My elder daughter’s admission to nursery, about six years ago, was a cakewalk. We applied to just three schools then and she was selected. This time I anticipated serious competition and applied to more schools. I was shocked to see the results,” Bhardwaj said. The gruelling and unfruitful experience has left her bitter and hopeless. Left with little option, Bhardwaj will keep her son in the neighbourhood playschool for another year. “ It’s such experiences that push parents to use unfair means for admission,” she said SHE APPLIED TO: Amity International School, Saket, The Pinnacle School, Panchsheel Enclave, Bloom Public School, Bluebells School, among others. LET DOWN BY SYSTEMIC FLAWS SANJAY Mahajan ( 37) is upset with the Delhi government for overlooking the obvious flaws in the points system. “ Is it my fault that my child is a boy? Or that I don’t have a transferable job? Or that I haven’t studied in 10 different schools to improve his chances of admission? The schools’ admission policy definitely makes it seem so,” said the Lajpat Nagar resident and father of a three- year- old. Mahajan had applied to 11 schools, but couldn’t secure admission for his son Shreyas in any of them as different quotas and categories such as EWS, sibling, alumni and girl child had cornered most of the general seats. HE APPLIED TO: Mata Gujri Public School, GK- I, Summerfields School, Kailash Colony, Cambridge School, New Friends Colony, among others. UNLUCKY TWICE OVER NEHAL Rizvi, unlike most parents, was all- too- familiar with the admission grind. This year, after all, was his second attempt at securing admission to a formal school for his daughter Shifa Fatima. But he clearly did not expect to be unlucky a second time. “ Shifa is already four years old. Next year, when I try again, she’ll have turned five. I am completely at a loss and have no idea what I should do now,” said Rizvi ( 36), who is a software quality engineer and a resident of Jamia Nagar. As an applicant, Shifa scored points only under the neighbourhood criterion in most of the 10 schools that her father had applied to. “ There is no room for candidates who actually qualify under the general criteria. Our children, too, deserve to go to a good school and should not be judged on whether they have a sibling studying in the school already or if their parent is an alumnus of the school,” he said. For now, Rizvi plans to admit his daughter to a small local school in his area and then try for admission to Class I next year. “ This school barely has facilties and functions out of just one building, but I have no choice other than to admit her there for now,” he added. HE APPLIED TO: Convent of Jesus and Mary, Carmel Convent, St. George’s School, Alaknanda, DPS, Mathura Road and East of Kailash, Kalka Public School, Mater Dei, Bal Bharti Air Force School, Lady Irwin School, among others. |
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Permalink Reply by 3ig1dp5m08azw on
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completely agree!
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I am also one amoung them. I had applied to 14 schools but could not get through even one. Really do not know what to do. If the admission could not happen this year do not know how much possibility is there for next year. DOE is very nice in making decission for implementing point system etc. Even the previllage for EWS catergory etc.
Only one thing overlooked is basic education for every child. The analysis should have been done based on the ratio of no. of children at 3+ for nursery admission and no. of schools along with seats available in nursery class.
Major point left behind is the result of all these problems.
Next year the child would be 4+ and can not apply under the nursery admission of 3+ category so they take a back seat in the first instance itself. DOE earlier told that if we make nursery eligibility as 4+ then Delhi children would be at disadvantage compared to other state for govt jobs etc. Where do the point taken care.
Request to DOE, please do something that no child is deprived of their basis education right. Now also things are not delayed. Please increase no. of seats in schools or increase no. of schools so that all the children are accomodated.
School admission was going on nicely before this point system & ganguly committee. Everything got messed up due to this. 4 years back there is no major problem in schoold admission.
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Schools knew it very well that they were not allowed to interview parents and kids. So, they did a very clever thing by giving massive points to ALUMNI and SIBLING because people belonging to those two categories must have given an interview in the past.
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Absolutely....
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Even I have applied in 17 schools within the range of upto 5 KMs from my residence but was not successful enough to get the admission for my ward; so I suggest that there should be a policy of maximum 60% quota for girls so that boys can get remaining 40% instead of giving 10 additional points to the girl child.
Further, points for both the sibling & alumni case should not be applicable to any one case, there should be option of choosing either alumni or sibling points, as these cases got maximum points after adding the both & defeated the distance criteria altogether, i.e if an applicant is staying 12-15 KMs away from the preferred school he/ she still can get the admission on the basis of sibling & alumni points instead of a child staying 0-2 KMs away from the school but having no other points like alumni/ sibling.
Also, as earlier said by Nursery admissions team that Transferred cases should not get Alumni/ Sibling points as the points were given to transferred cases based upon the trend that they generally did not fall in sibling/ alumni category.
In other words, there should be lucky draw for each category instead of allocating points; like lucky draw for ALUMNI cases upto 20% of total seats, lucky draw for SIBLING cases upto 20% of total seats & SO ON... upto a maximum of 60% girls & 40 % boys.
Something similar to this type of method can only provide fair chances of admission to everybody.
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