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Times Of India | Nursery admissions: Wait for vacancies, try NCR schools Mr Vohra And Principals Give Suggestions For No Admission Cases | AN.com Parents Plight who applied in More than 20-25 schools

NEW DELHI: Do not despair if your child has not secured a nursery seat yet. Schools are likely to announce second lists - albeit with fewer seats - against vacancies.

Children who got through multiple schools will have to surrender all but one of their seats. These vacancies will then become available to candidates who have been unsuccessful in the first round.

"The chances are bright that we will have a second list. Parents should book a seat wherever they get through first and then change to the school of their choice if they get lucky in the second list," said LV Sehgal, principal, Bal Bharati School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg.

Sumit Vohra, who runs an online portal on nursery admissions, said, "Parents should keep an eye on the second list and if that does not work, many schools in the NCR have vacancies".Continuing in the playschool is also an option for children who could not get a seat in a formal school at the age of three. Most playschools run classes from pre-nursery to KG. So, a child can pursue nursery there and shift to a proper school in KG. The only hitch is that the number of seats in KG is generally small.Parents residing in east and south Delhi can also look for schools in parts of the NCR. Noida has many upcoming schools which welcome parents with easier admission norms. Gurgaon, too, has new progressive schools which step up their classes with every new batch.

"Our admission process started in October-November and was already closed. But we had kept aside around 50 seats for later as we had seen a huge demand among Delhi parents last year. Admissions to these seats will open in the coming days after the process in Delhi settles down," said Sarita Madhok, principal of Noida's Mayoor School, which is affiliated to Mayo College.

"After parents register, we will have a short informal interaction with them. We generally look for parental profile. We also have our buses plying to south Delhi," she added.

Advocate and Social Jurist founder Ashok Aggarwal said, "All government schools should be upgraded to the level of Central schools. This will deal with the paucity of schools."

Nursery of woes for parents in lurch
Neha Pushkarna, TNN | Feb 3, 2012, 01.49AM IST

NEW DELHI: Securing a nursery seat in the city is a matter of good fortune. How else will you explain the ordeal of Sanjiv Bhardwaj, whose son couldn't get admission in spite of applying at 27 schools? The Saket resident took a fortnight off from work in January to apply at every school in the neighbourhood and away.

"All that seems to have come to naught," said a visibly dejected Bhardwaj. "I had applied in so many schools of south Delhi but there is no option left for the common man in this city. I guess I will have to move out to send my child to school."

Bhardwaj works as a telecom professional in a multinational company. He had turned down an offer to work in Europe to stay in the city he grew up in. "I should have gone abroad. At least my son would have gone to school," he said.

He blames the system for his son sitting out of school. "There is no uniform point system in Delhi schools. I was banking on the neighbourhood points. But alumni and sibling cases took away the pie. No wonder a child from Noida could get through a south Delhi school but my son couldn't," he said.

He hadn't really weighed his options till Thursday evening. "My mind is a blank. I don't want to keep sending my child to the playschool. And will schools have enough seats in KG next year when my son turns four?" he wondered.

Bhardwaj is not alone. The Kalras of GK-I applied in 23 schools but their son could not get through any. "We scored up to 40 points for neighbourhood as well as first child. But most schools were admitting students at 70 or more points. The whole neighbourhood concept is a farce. I have one more year to take a chance. We both are lawyers and can afford a good school for our child. So a government school is completely out of the question," said Mahua Kalra, the mother. The Kalras are now waiting for the second list.

Parents seeking admission for their first child are miffed at schools giving preference to alumni and sibling cases. Sanjay Kumar Jha of Sarita Vihar couldn't make use of the privileges. He applied in the same school where his daughter studies, but in vain.

"There was a draw of lots in which my son did not succeed. I feel so disturbed now. I may have to send him to a nearby school though it's not too good," Jha said. Not all are gloomy, though. Anjali Kapoor had been waiting for results of the 22 schools she had applied to. Only one invited her son for admission but on the payment of an extra, unaccounted Rs 20,000. "Finally, one more school has selected my son. I feel ecstatic," she said.

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Permalink Reply by Arti jain on February 3, 2012 at 11:14am

I reqest all the parents to file complaints against schools not following the DOE guidelines at DOE website.

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Permalink Reply by 0udoq41f3a3ju on February 3, 2012 at 11:32am

As pointed by Mr Sumit Vohra and many parents,we should stand against this whole education system which is so farce.

With this situation, I agree with mr Vohra,that parents can get admission in NCR(where there are lot many schools specially the International ones,where many seats are vacant) or continue with the play school.After all it would not be a very good idea to waste a year,because then again next yr,children would be overage. Schools generally double the seats in standard 1,probably that would be a good time to try again in the preferred school.

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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on February 3, 2012 at 11:39am

There are more than 55 schools in Dwarka. Shifting to Dwarka also would be best option since it is interlinked with all places in Delhi and NCR due to metro.

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Permalink Reply by 1glns6nbcwwm6 on February 3, 2012 at 12:34pm

Have you read the news on Quality of India education that stands lowest at a global standard. It is for this quality of education that we are being harassed.The fact that there is no standard process of application or selection, the fact that they allow schools to announce results on different dates all show the government and all the authorities who can fix this are all involved and only want to make money. Not bothered about the common man at all.

I applied to 22 schools and did not get through any. Interesting fact is I did not get through to the school where I am an alumni ! The reason is the school prefers folks who have opted for transport.. wow ! I live 200 mts away from this school .. I did not get through to 2 schools that are withing 200 mts of my house

And then I am told schools have preferred parents in transferable jobs over the ones who selected non transferable. What a mockery of this system. Its unfortunate that our kids have to survive in this rotten system.

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Permalink Reply by Anju arora on February 3, 2012 at 1:48pm

Thats crazy Gayatri, its like.... they have decided to reject the applications on some unreasonable grounds. Its very disappointing.... we have applied in 15 schools and have got thru none of them... can you beat it, one of the schools we got 70points but still rejected my daughter's seat just becoz she is 28th March born, which is like she would probably be the youngest in the class. Their reason is she is too small...... come on... we meet the criteria and thats what is important. So damn frustrating....

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Permalink Reply by Gopal on February 4, 2012 at 9:00am

I applied to 27 schools and did not get through any. I am based in Malviya Nagar and at least 3 schools are there in less than 300 mts from my house.

Becoz of this mockery point system, and no consistency across the schools, I haven’t got benefit of even sibling category. My elder son is in Tagore International, and they adopted their very own point system. There were only 20 seats for sibling and if you are not that lucky then you are the looser. Neither you selected there nor any other place as you don’t score that many points outside. Only scoring neighborhood point, you can’t even think of getting through to any 1^st or 2^nd list of any school.

Also getting points on the name of transferable jobs is another Joke? If it’s a real transfer case in 2011-2012 then make some sense but schools are achieving what to discriminate between transferrable and non-transferable jobs…. Only GOD or DOE or Mr. Lovely can understand.