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New nursery guidelines: Confusion over parent-alumni, interstate transfer criteria | Mr Sumit Vohra complaint dated 30 Dec 2013 High lighted in Hindustan Times~7 Jan 2014

New nursery guidelines: Confusion over parent-alumni, interstate transfer criteria

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NEW DELHI: With schools now set to release forms for nursery admissions from next week and guidelines now set in stone, parents have raised fresh queries over some of the criteria including definitions of a parent-alumnus.

While the parent-alumni criteria carries 5 points according to the guidelines issued by the Delhi government, parents claimed that the definition of the criteria remained unclear.

While some schools considered parents as “alumni” for having completed class 12 from a school, others allocated points to parents who had left the school after class 10.

“I went to a school in east Delhi, only to be told that I don’t count as an alumnus since I had only done my class 12 from that school. There is no clarity on that front because they had permitted parents who had left the school after completing class 10, to be categorised as alumni,” said a parent.

Even the interstate transfer criteria was being moulded according to individual schools’ discretion, with international transfer cases being turned away.

“I had moved to India in October, from South Korea. Even though interstate transfer criteria of schools allocate five points, I was told that since it’s a transfer from abroad, I’m not eligible for those points,” said Mohit Khurana.

However, prominent schools in the city claimed that both criteria had been clearly defined, with no room for confusion.

“Most schools, including ours, consider a person to be an alumnus if they have completed their class 12 from the school. We don’t consider students who had left before completing their schooling,” said Usha Ram, principal, Laxman Public School.

“As far as interstate transfers go, most schools take into account transfers of all kinds, including those from abroad. However, the parents need to produce a certificate and justify that,” Ram added.

However, parents stated that they would move higher authorities to get greater clarity on the matter.

Please see the copy of complaint by Mr Sumit Vohra

Subject: (Director Education)~Subject: Schools manipulated Alumni Points/Transfer Points last year (2013-14)No points for twins in the new notification (for 2014-15)
(Marked to Delhi Chief Minister/Delhi Education Minister/Education Secretary)

Shri Amit Singla 30 Dec 2013

Director Education (DOE)

Govt. of NCT of Delhi.

Civil Lines, Delhi- 110054

Respected sir

In continuation to my earlier mail regarding transparency in Lottery. Pleased attached validated point system excel sheet for more than 200 schools for year 2013-2014

1) I would like you to issue instructions to the schools who manipulate Alumni Points by following ways before commencement of admissions

a) Alumni Points are awarded to children who have just studied for minimum one year in the school ( That means any one can get alumni point many schools..indirect screening)

b) Some schools give points to parents who have studied in schools of same society (That is not definition of Alumni)

c) Some Schools give 10th pass out and others 12th pass out for Alumni points ( Technically it should be 12th else any person who has changed school after 10th can get alumni in two different schools)

So make common rules as 5 alumni points would decide destiny of many children

2 Please clear the definition of interstate transfer else schools will use manipulate this point also.

a) Like last year few schools gave points "Is your job transferable" and different schools had their own rules(We got many complaints)

b) Please clarify further after what date (example 31.3.2013 or 1.1.2013) the interstate transfer is valid and it should be valid for both Govt and Private employees ( Technically as per guidelines) As many schools did indirect screening by giving transfer points only to Govt Employees (Employees working with Private suffered a lot) last year.

c) Lot of parents who have come on transfer from foreign countries are confused.

( Technically they should be covered but please clarify for their sake, whether they would be get transfer points or not)

3 Till last year many school gave first child point to the twins and in case of lottery many schools had policy to select both the twins in case of selection of one child in Draw of Lots

but this year we are getting many queries as parents want their twin to go in same school. So is it possible to make some guidelines for twins or not as being Blanket Point System .school cannot deviate.

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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on January 7, 2014 at 10:11am

Yes confusion on both these category still exists among parents. DOE should come with clear definition and instructions to schools well in advance in reply to the complaint filed by Mr.Vohra a week before.

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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on January 7, 2014 at 11:59am

Dear Sumit Ji,

Alumni in my opinion should be for passing out Class X or Class XII as these two classes are still being considered for various courses/obtaining documents like Passport/Driving License etc. Alumni should consider children of their parents and grandparents.

For Transfer, once it is stated "Inter-State Transfer" should be from 1.1.2013 to 31.1.2014 (benefit goes to last day transfer cases also). I hope it should not be from 1.4.2013 (this may again create confusion on account of academic session which ends 31.3.2014, a date of no use for Nursery admissions).

Academic session may be taken into account for other classes.

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Permalink Reply by Divya Manchanda on January 7, 2014 at 12:21pm

Dear Sir
Greetings!
Please clarify the alumni point doubt. I did my Class X board from a school in east delhi as it was only secondary school at that time and i had to shift to a different school for XI and XII. But now that school has extension to sr. secondary. Will i be counted as alumni for my school from where i passed Class X as for me there was no scope of studying further in that school.Or i shall be the alumni of the school from where i did my Class XII?