Monday, December 28, 2009
Nursery Admission - Parents Protest at Jantar Mantar

New Delhi: Anxious parents, running from pillar to post, not bearing the mercenary attitude of the private schools to get their little ones admitted decided to hold a protest against them at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday.

Hundreds of aggrieved parents in the capital sat on a dharna organized by the Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangha (DAM) to protest against the manner in which they are conducting the nursery admissions.

Aggrieved parents vented out their grievances and complained of the "mercenary attitude" of these schools "who are interested only in minting money."

They also voiced their concern upon their arbitrary procedure to conduct admissions in violation of the Department of Education (DoE) guidelines.

DAM's President, Vijendra Gupta said that, "The DoE's admission policy has been openly flouted by these private schools for nursery admissions. The parents stand helpless and suffer at the hands of the greedy school managements that are only interested in monetary benefits which they derive after admitting children of influential parents. Every norm of the DoE has been manipulated as the schools still do not deter from taking donations. They are following a very partisan admission policy, interviews are being conducted etc."

Rakesh Sharma, a parent at the dharna, informs, "The government policy has had no effect on schools, I am still running from pillar to post for my son's admission. Violating the government and court orders, they are conducting interviews with children and parents. There are hidden costs against the fixed cost of Rs.25 set by the government. I had to pay Rs.800 as syllabus cost made compulsory for the admission form, which should cost only Rs.25. we also thought that the last date for the submissions is January 15 but most of the schools are only giving us two or three days."

Sumit Vohara, president of admissions nursery dot com, informs, "Private schools are breaching government guidelines for nursery admissions. Schools somehow are using their tactics to extort as much money as possible from the parents. They design the admission forms in such a manner that a parent is bound to mention his salary, which is not a healthy practice to follow. Schools are charging donations and non-admissible fees etc and lower income families are being harassed and also denied forms."
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