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Plea likely against partial redraw | Don’t contest other criteria: HC to parents Times of India - 1 Mar
Plea likely against partial redraw
NURSERY ADMISSION TROUBLES DON’T END YET
Shreya Roy Chowdhury TNN
New Delhi: There may be more legal action coming on nursery admissions. At least some transfer cases may go to court, not against the withdrawal of points, but against the decision allowing some to hang on to their seats.
Waitlisted candidates, too, are anxious. The guidelines, they say, don’t clarify whether existing wait-lists are to be scrapped while its members participate in other draws.
“I made sure I moved in time for the admissions,” says Kumar Saurabh who moved from Mumbai in 2013. “I got new voter ID cards, changed the address on my wife’s passport and updated our Aadhaar cards. I wasn’t expecting any points for transfer. But I saw the new guidelines were good.” Figuring that the points for transfer improved his chances significantly, Saurabh applied to a “limited number of schools”. His son was selected at three.
Saurabh informs that schools, especially after protests over transfer cases, became so vigilant that he was asked to furnish many documents other than those prescribed by the Directorate of Education. “We thought the first guidelines were progressive. Later, we believed when DoE scraps transfer points, they’ll come up with something rational. They haven’t.”
His fears coincide exactly with 70-pointers (applicants with only distance points). “At one Vasant Kunj school, there’s a draw for hundreds of 75-pointers for 63 seats. If you remove transfer cases, the batch will be of siblings and alumni,” Saurabh says.
Several parents and activists have been demanding “capping” of the number of seats that can go to these categories. “You should have similarly scrapped 20 points for sibling and five points for alumni or at least a cap should have been put on them as suggested by the Ganguly Committee in its IInd Report to the Delhi high court in 2007,” lawyer-activist Ashok Agarwal wrote to the LG on Friday.
“Parents with genuine transfer points say they will get one chance in the lottery while others will get more. Since technically all lists are provisional, on what ground can waitlist candidates be rejected?” Sumit Vohra of admissionsnursery.com says.
Don’t contest other criteria: HC to parents
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Friday informed Delhi high court that it has done away with points for interstate transfer cases of children seeking admission in nursery classes.
“The writ petition was essentially filed against the grant of points reserved for interstate transfer category. The Delhi government informed us that the provision of five points for interstate transfer cases has been done away with and a fresh notification been issued. In view of this, no further direction is needed. The writ petition stands disposed,” a bench headed by acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed said.
During the hearing, the bench asked petitioner Rohit Nagpal and other parents not to widen the scope of the petition by challenging other admission criteria. It, however, asked the parents to approach the single judge bench for other grievances related to the nursery admission process. The single bench, which was hearing a similar plea, had disposed of the petition.
toi.reporter@timesgroup.com
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Permalink Reply by Nitin Talwar on
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i think, if ppl of delhi want justice then they have to convince the authorities to bring in reservation for ppl born and brought up in delhi (parents of childeren given this reservation should be born and brought up in delhi). every other state has the concept of domnicile...we delhi ppl suffer if we go to other states, why should ppl from other states just come in masses into delhi and get reservations...
Note: Its my persona view..if anyone is offended, I regret the same
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Please don't get ur frustation on ppl who got their kids selected in the draw. Why those selected kids had to suffer due to Fake Transfer Cases?
Don't be selfish. Its a matter of luck.
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waitlisted ones are the most affected by this new order for no fault of there, how is a 70 pointer confirmed applicant more sacrosanct for DOE than a 70 pointer waitlisted one. DOE is completely irrational in its decision.
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When transfer cases were getting benefits of extra 5 five points and 70 pointers were facing issues at that time
All 75 pointers were enjoying and now when situation is same they are asking for redraw.....how funny
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Permalink Reply by Gitanjali Suresh Nair on
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All 75 pointers ( TP cases) now face the worst case scenario. ( Poor PT, the girl whose name was being used all too often, as the 'luckiest child', her name will now be removed from all lists - isn't that terrible enough for her parents? Didn't we strangely cause this 'Nazar Lag Gayee' situation for her!?????'
However it is equally true that the successful 70 pointers are few/rare and taking their seats away for a TOTAL redraw, would be extremely cruel and unfair to them ( its not their fault either that DOE changes rules every day!)
One solution - By the Schools - could be that the schools could DOUBLE the tickets/chits for each TP case in all pending new draws - to statistically compensate for their lost opportunity in earlier draws. This way the successful 70 pointers can maintain their seats, And the unsuccessful 70 pointers (LIKE ME !) have a second chance at some more seats in some more schools.
@Sakshi, Can we suggest this as a solution to various schools?
[I understand that this still does not solve the cases where schools manage to totally avoid any more draws by filling up the newly vacated seats by Alumni candidates - but thats as luck would have it.]
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Seems an excellent suggestion to me out of this logjam. In fact, the exact number of chits required (in decimals) can be calculated by each school depending upon their respective statistics and rounded off to the nearest digit -- this would avoid further charge of bias by one or the other group.
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Fresh draw for all the general category should be done..partial draw is not a solution..and what ant the 5 points ..these shd be given to first child or girl child.
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Even though my child is at 70 points and has not been selected in any of the 16 schools we applied, I feel those 70 pointers who were lucky should be allowed to retain their seats. Secondly DOE should scrap Alumni seats and third sibling(if at all). There should be redraw with the above criteria
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Imagine Scenario1, presented in court
Open seats after Siblings + Alumni 100 Applicants 1000 Tfr cases 10 Original 70 Pointers 90 Chances in First draw 90 / (1000-10) 9.09% Chances in Second draw 10 / (1000-90+10) 1.09% Tfr pointers only got 1.09% chance of a seat.
While majority of 70 pointers got two chances 9.09% + 1.09% = 10.18%
Now imagine scenario 2, by reversing the the tfr and 70 pointers numbers
Open seats after Siblings + Alumni 100 Applicants 1000 Tfr cases 90 Original 70 Pointers 10 Chances in First draw 10 / (1000-90) 1.10% Chances in Second draw 90 / (1000-10+90) 8.33% Now Tfr pointers got 8.33% chance of a seat.
Majority of 70 pointers got two chances 1.10% + 8.33 % = 9.43%.
The difference is small (just 1.10%) but this can not be ignored considering the situation, every single % point counts.
Genuine Tfr pointers did nothing wrong. Govt gave them the points, and then they were scrapped. Why penalize genuine Tfr pointers for Govt's mistakes.
I think this is where the honorable HC saw merit in this plea. So, this may be hard on 70 pointers selected in first/second draw. Remember, Tfr 75 pointers also lost their confirmed seats.
As said by the court, inconvenience can not be the reason for injustice.
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