Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2026-27
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n race for nursery, parents ponder over many points
* Springdales School-Pusa Road is a non-minority school, but for this year’s nursery admissions, it has reserved 10 points for the minorities. Parents complain that the points to the minorities reduce the “already depleted” general-category seats in the school. There 102 seats in the school.
* Laxman Public School-Hauz Khas has put in two subjective questions in the application form for parents to answer. Although these questions have no weightage, parents are apprehensive that “the school might use the answers to judge candidates”.
* Mother’s International School-Aurobindo Marg has only three categories — neighbourhood, sibling and alumni. All others are kept out of its admission process.
* Sanskriti School-Chanakyapuri, which started in 1998 and had its first batch of pass-outs in 2005, has reserved five points for the alumni.
As nursery admissions pick up heat in the Capital, parents are struggling to decode not only the different categories used by schools, but also various diversions from the norms.
A parent who was standing outside Springdales School-Pusa Road to collect an application form for his daughter said: “How does the school explain this? Only minority institutes can reserve seats for minorities. This is a non-minority school.”
The final guidelines on nursery admissions issued by the Delhi government gives schools the freedom to formulate their own criteria that is “fair, just and within the ambit of the Right to Education Act”.
Of the 102 seats available in Springdales, 52 are for the general category, 26 for EWS, five for the staff children, four for the special needs category and 15 seats are for the school’s discretionary (management) quota.
Principal of the school, Ameeta Wattal, defends the decision to reserve seats for minority students. “We have always believed in heterogeneous classrooms. Why should minorities only go to minority schools? We have reserved points for the minorities in order to protect the diversity of the country.”
Laxman Public School principal Usha Ram backs her school’s decision to include questions for parents. “I don’t think there is anything wrong with putting subjective questions. The school wants to know if the parents are serious about getting their child admitted in the school. They won’t be judged on the answers they write.” However, a parent who had downloaded the admission form from the school’s website told Newsline, “Why do they want us to answer those questions at all if there is no weightage for them? The school might use the answers in case there is a tie, which is not fair.”
The questions are: “What type of education do you think is relevant and meaningful to your child in today’s scenario?” and “Why did you make Laxman Public School one of your preferences for your child’s schooling?”
Regarding the inclusion of only three categories in the forms, honorary director of Mother’s International School Indu Bala Pillai said: “We have very few sections for our nursery classes. If we include other categories, we need more space. What can we do?”
Meanwhile, Mahavira Model Senior School-GT Karnal Road gives points to the Jains. It also gives five points to vegetarians and five to non-smokers and non-drinkers. Principal S L Jain said: “We go by what the parent tells us. We do not need any affidavit for this.”
Schools like DPS-RK Puram and DPS-Mathura Road have reserved points for the children of sportspersons.
Principal of Sanskriti School-Chanakyapuri Abha Sahgal could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.
* Springdales School-Pusa Road is a non-minority school, but for this year’s nursery admissions, it has reserved 10 points for the minorities. Parents complain that the points to the minorities reduce the “already depleted” general-category seats in the school. There 102 seats in the school.
* Laxman Public School-Hauz Khas has put in two subjective questions in the application form for parents to answer. Although these questions have no weightage, parents are apprehensive that “the school might use the answers to judge candidates”.
* Mother’s International School-Aurobindo Marg has only three categories — neighbourhood, sibling and alumni. All others are kept out of its admission process.
* Sanskriti School-Chanakyapuri, which started in 1998 and had its first batch of pass-outs in 2005, has reserved five points for the alumni.
As nursery admissions pick up heat in the Capital, parents are struggling to decode not only the different categories used by schools, but also various diversions from the norms.
A parent who was standing outside Springdales School-Pusa Road to collect an application form for his daughter said: “How does the school explain this? Only minority institutes can reserve seats for minorities. This is a non-minority school.”
The final guidelines on nursery admissions issued by the Delhi government gives schools the freedom to formulate their own criteria that is “fair, just and within the ambit of the Right to Education Act”.
Of the 102 seats available in Springdales, 52 are for the general category, 26 for EWS, five for the staff children, four for the special needs category and 15 seats are for the school’s discretionary (management) quota.
Principal of the school, Ameeta Wattal, defends the decision to reserve seats for minority students. “We have always believed in heterogeneous classrooms. Why should minorities only go to minority schools? We have reserved points for the minorities in order to protect the diversity of the country.”
Laxman Public School principal Usha Ram backs her school’s decision to include questions for parents. “I don’t think there is anything wrong with putting subjective questions. The school wants to know if the parents are serious about getting their child admitted in the school. They won’t be judged on the answers they write.” However, a parent who had downloaded the admission form from the school’s website told Newsline, “Why do they want us to answer those questions at all if there is no weightage for them? The school might use the answers in case there is a tie, which is not fair.”
The questions are: “What type of education do you think is relevant and meaningful to your child in today’s scenario?” and “Why did you make Laxman Public School one of your preferences for your child’s schooling?”
Regarding the inclusion of only three categories in the forms, honorary director of Mother’s International School Indu Bala Pillai said: “We have very few sections for our nursery classes. If we include other categories, we need more space. What can we do?”
Meanwhile, Mahavira Model Senior School-GT Karnal Road gives points to the Jains. It also gives five points to vegetarians and five to non-smokers and non-drinkers. Principal S L Jain said: “We go by what the parent tells us. We do not need any affidavit for this.”
Schools like DPS-RK Puram and DPS-Mathura Road have reserved points for the children of sportspersons.
Principal of Sanskriti School-Chanakyapuri Abha Sahgal could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.
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Thanks. Information is quite essential for us. But I m staying in East Delhi and still unaware which is best for my little d'ter,time is another bar.pls.help me .which one is good in east delhi .I stay in Swasthaya Vihar.
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Thanks Sumit sir for getting this highlighted..i'm sure DOE will now be forced to take actions against these schools who are flouting DOE/RTE guidelines and making larger community of parents suffer..
Hi Saroj ji,
Regarding East Delhi schools near to you---you can go for Bharti Public School, Swasthya Vihar(011-22502878, 22512878). where forms are being issued currently...for other good schools in and around vikas marg(Sneh, SLS DAV, Mother Teresa preet vihar, Saheed Rajpal DAV dayanand vihar, DAV Shrestha vihar, Vivekananda anand vihar)pls see the Excel Sheet at the front page of this Forum..
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Hi
Thanks Sumit Sir, I'm looking for recently opened GDGoenka in Anand Vihar,read about school only thru east delhi newspaper. What do u suggest about it. DAVs are all time best,and Sneh Intnl.is also like that,i didn't find anything new in it as my son is studying there.Now I fear some good schools demand donations except DAVs. Pls throw some light on this.
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In all this thing wat i think is the worst hit are two categories 1 is EWS and other is parents with 4+ children.Schools are also violating the high court notice 2007 of admitting 4+ kids in nursery.no body is bothered about us.schools are straight away denying to accept the form of a 4+ baby.out of 2000 schools(approx) in delhi we dont even hv 10% for 4+ students and we talk about RTE.
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very true you set the minimum age to be 3+ ,but dont be rigid on the maximum age ,what is school's problem if we want our child to repeat nursery.
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today i felt that it is crime to be hindu ! as the schools are giving extra points to the minorities .chirstans are gettin 40 -50 points extra and others too like sikh , south indians , muslims or any other gettin 5-10 points extra .where do the kids of people in majority go we are only called general category people. Disgusting
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air force balbharti lodhi road is selling form with prospectus for 150 . 125 for the prospectus and 25 for the form , i had taken form for all the 3 schools of airforce , we told them we will buy one prospectus with form for 150 and give us only form for the other two schools as what will we do of 3 same prospectus , but they refused saing we have order to do so ,if you want form take prospectus with all the 3 forms or else go ...
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