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Comment by Sakshi (Moderator) on February 14, 2013 at 7:37am: Nursery admissions not under Right to Education purview, court told

New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The central government Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that the Right to Education (RTE) law did not apply to nursery admissions and a state government may have its own policies for this class.

Additional Solicitor General Rajeeve Mehra, appearing for the central government, told the court that as per section 13 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, children between the age 6-14 years were covered by the provisions for free and compulsory elementary education.

He added that the children below the age of six were not covered under the act but the “state government may make necessary arrangement for providing free pre-school education to such children”.

A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice V.K. Jain said it will pass the order next week after going through the central government’s reply.

The bench Feb 12 asked the central government to clarify whether the RTE law applied to nursery admissions and if it did, what procedure was to be followed for it.

Mehra said the law stipulated that a child, between 6-14 years, would be treated as a child covered under the legislation and, hence, nursery admissions would not come under its purview.

In the government reply, Vikram Sahay, director, human resource development (HRD)ministry, said: “Schools can admit in Class 1, upto 25 percent of the strength of the class, children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighbourhood and provide free and compulsory elementary education till its completion.”

“The state government may have its own policies governing admissions in pre-primary class,” the reply said.

The court was hearing a petition filed by NGO Social Jurist against the two notifications of the HRD ministry and the Delhi government’s directorate of education, empowering unaided private schools to formulate their own nursery admission criteria.

The PIL by the NGO through advocate Ashok Agarwal alleged that these two notifications had given a free hand to all unaided recognized private schools.

IANS 2013-02-13 18:06:02

Comment by Sakshi (Moderator) on February 14, 2013 at 7:28am: Nursery outside RTE ambit: Centre

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New Delhi:The Centre Wednesday backed autonomy to Delhi’s private unaided schools in nursery admissions, clarifying that RTE Act doesn’t apply to nursery classes and the state government may frame its own policies.
Additional solicitor general Rajeeve Mehra informed a bench of chief justice D Murugesan and justice V K Jain that as per Section 13 of the Act only children between the ages of six and 14 years were covered by the provisions for free and compulsory elementary education while children below that age are excluded but the "state government may make necessary arrangement for providing free pre-school education to such children".
HC then took on record the Centre’s stand, saying it will pass an order interpreting the law. “Schools can admit in Class 1 up to 25 percent of the strength of the class children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups in the neighborhood,” the affidavit prepared by Vikram Sahay, director, human resource development ministry, added. The government, counsel informed HC it will follow provisions laid down in the Delhi Education Act.

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Comment by Natasha Kochhar on February 14, 2013 at 1:25am: Exactly Niti.. Some people here just get too personal ! At the end of every argument everyone's saying the same thing... No hope for a change... Suggestions are many, but all theoretical, as nothing ever really happens which is 'fair to everyone'?. As that's a idealistic concept... There are always agrieved, who speak out the most! Realistically, do the best u can, stay informed, and deal with the cards dealt to u!

Comment by Juhi Bhatt on February 14, 2013 at 1:13am: @niti thank you for the advice... Truly speaking i am doing what i enjoy really.. Increasing my knowledge base however mindless it may be. Also, if this can help in the long run then why not. Neither are we arguing nor bickering.. We are just having a conversation. Here is someone dedicated to fighting for the rights of our children and i feel obliged to help this person in any way that i can.
Again m not arguing with you.. Just telling u. In the end it is to each his/her own. Simply dont read this blog.

Comment by Juhi Bhatt on February 14, 2013 at 1:13am: @niti thank you for the advice... Truly speaking i am doing what i enjoy really.. Increasing my knowledge base however mindless it may be. Also, if this can help in the long run then why not. Neither are we arguing nor bickering.. We are just having a conversation. Here is someone dedicated to fighting for the rights of our children and i feel obliged to help this person in any way that i can.
Again m not arguing with you.. Just telling u. In the end it is to each his/her own. Simply dont read this blog.

Comment by Juhi Bhatt on February 14, 2013 at 12:45am: MHRD Circular - Guidelines under section 35(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 regarding procedure for admission in schools under Section 13(1) and section 12(1)(c) of the RTE Act -regarding
http://www.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/lgdi/rtewatch/wp-content/upl...

In this section 4(ii) stating "there shall be no profiling of the child based on parental educational qualifications." May also mean alumni category. As ALUMNI to is indirectly categorising based on parents education.

Comment by Juhi Bhatt on February 14, 2013 at 12:18am: http://righttoeducation.in/blogs/early-childhood-care-and-education...
Another intersting blog on ECCE.

Comment by Juhi Bhatt on February 13, 2013 at 11:53pm: http://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/lgdi/rtewatch/need-for-including...

Comment by Juhi Bhatt on February 13, 2013 at 11:50pm: @Sakshi here is the link for "Draft National Early Childhood Care and Education Policy (NECCE)". This covers children upto the age of 6 yrs.
http://wcd.nic.in/schemes/ECCE/National%20ECCE%20Policy%20draft%20(1).pdf

Comment by k suresh kumar on February 13, 2013 at 11:11pm: sakshiji / Juhi... got this while googling:

What is elementary education?

Elementary education is 8 years of education corresponding to classes 1-8. This in most cases includes children between 6-14 years, but in states that start at 5 years and go up to class7, RTE would still extend to class 8.

http://rtemonitoringcell.info/definitions-of-terms-in-the-right-to-...