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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday vacated stay on nursery admissions in the national capital. The court said those who have managed to secure a seat in the first draw of lots their admission remains confirmed.
The court further said that all the applicants who have secured a seat in more than one school should within three working days or till April 9 choose one school or they will lose both the seats.
The Delhi High Court also put the transfer cases on hold and said the decision on the matter will be taken on April 16.
In February this year the court had ordered scrapping of transfer points and later ordered a fresh draw of lots. This order was challenged by parents whose wards had already secured admissions.
This is the first time admission process has dragged on for so long with points system being changed twice and 15 notifications issued by the Education department, leading to utter confusion.
1 DRAW OF LOT BEFORE VALID FOR ALL (EXCEPT TRANSFER)
2 ANY PARENT SELECT IN MORE THAN 1 SCHOOL HAS TO TAKE ADMISSION BY 9APR ELSE ADMISSION WOULD BE CANCELLED
3 TRANSFER POINTS TO BE DECIDED ON 16 APR.
Click at the link below to see the school data posted by DOE
http://www.edudel.nic.in/upload_2013_14/act_data_dt_03042014.pdf
Case
Details of 3 Apr - Court No 1- The case is expected to come early morning around 10.30am( No exact time can be predicted )
03.04.2014
FOR ADMISSION _______________
58-NITIN BHATIA
Vs. MAJOR SAURABH CHARAN AND KUMAR,BALAJI BIRAJDAR,MANJIT ORS SINGH AHLUWALIA,ALAYA LEGAL
59- MAJOR SAURABH CHARAN AND ORS LATIKA CHOUDHARY Vs. LT GOVERNOR, DELHI AND ORS
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HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times New Delhi, April 03, 2014
For Amit and Ishita Khanna, the last four months have been a nightmare --– first came the long queues for forms, then complicated guidelines and now, the endless wait for some clarity on the nursery admission process.
“Every day for the last four months, I have thought about my son’s admission and have drawn a blank. What sort of a system lets parents suffer even after four months?” a harried Ishita said.
The logjam over the admission process, which continued on Wednesday with the Delhi high court moving the hearing in the case to Thursday, has left thousands of parents angry and anxious.
Fate of close to 125,000 children hangs in the balance. The admission process has been dragging on since December 18, when lieutenant governor Najib Jung came out with guidelines drastically different to the ones followed for years.
The confusion can be gauged from the fact that since December, the government has come up with 15 different notifications and there is still no clarity.
A number of experts that HT spoke to were of the view that if an overhaul of the admission process was planned, the guidelines should have been released much earlier and schools made part of the decision-making.
Parents think no different. “If the changes were to be so drastic, why weren’t all the stakeholders involved? Why weren’t the guidelines released earlier so that we didn’t have to suffer unnecessarily?” said Meena Nair, whose son got through to a school of their choice but can’t complete formalities till the court allows admissions. “Each year, the same issues are discussed over and over again but a resolution is never reached,” she complained.
Karan Yadav, another parent, wondered why did the LG have to change the guidelines?
“Schools were managing and students were getting admission. At least it was better than what is happening now,” Yadav said.
This is the longest that nursery admissions have dragged on. Typically, by March-end the process is done and dusted. But this year, nursery session is looking at a late start.
The litigation started early January when schools challenged the new rules. Next month, it was parents’ turn.
But not all parents’ are on one side -- while one set is opposing the alumni and sibling points, other is furiously defending them.
The parents, it seems, are losing patience and faith in judiciary as well. “We though the court would understand our suffering and bring out a verdict quickly. We are losing patience now,” Nair said. The court, on its part, has come down hard on the government for the mess that admission process has turned into.
Hindustan Times- 2 AprParents hope for end to nursery battle today
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court may come out with a verdict in the lingering nursery admission battle on Wednesday.
But parents and schools are already fed up of the endless litigation that the process has been dragged into this year. The Lieutenant Governor declared guidelines that were drastically different as compared to last year’s guidelines on December 18. Even weeks before the final announcement, there was no news about what they may contain, catching schools and parents by surprise.
The litigation started in early January when schools went to court against the new rules, followed by parents in February.
For the past three years, one or the other stakeholder has gone to court regarding either the minimum age criteria or the autonomy of minority schools. This is however, the first time that the litigation has stretched on till April and the admission process has been delayed for so long.
The process has been most trying for parents who have had to grapple with one guideline today and another the next day.
Nursery admission being one of the most trying times in a parent’s life in the city in any case, the litigation and uncertainty has added to their anxiety manifold.
The biggest losers in the entire process have been parents who have followed all guidelines that were passed.
The admission process was usually done by March 31 till the previous years. In fact, admissions under the first and second lists were completed by mid-February.
Close to 15 notifications have already been issued by the Directorate of Education in relation to the various aspects of the admission process. The first of these was issued on December 18, when the guidelines were issued.
According to experts, the schools need to be made part of the decision-making process to ensure that the policies can be implemented.
“Involving schools is very important as they understand the admission process inside out. There can be checks and balances in place to ensure that they don’t misuse their power but cutting them out is not a solution,” said a former principal of a prominent south Delhi school.
Litigation following the declaration of nursery admission guidelines has become a regular feature that has plagued admissions for the past few years.
This year’s admission season has been particularly ruthless to parents with the process being postponed and then challenged in the Supreme Court after which an endless battle started in the Delhi High Court.
Meenakshi Upreti,CNN-IBN
Apr 03, 2014 at 04:51pm IST
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday vacated stay on nursery admissions in the national capital. The court said those who have managed to secure a seat in the first draw of lots their admission remains confirmed.
The court further said that all the applicants who have secured a seat in more than one school should within three working days or till April 9 choose one school or they will lose both the seats.
The Delhi High Court also put the transfer cases on hold and said the decision on the matter will be taken on April 16.
In February this year the court had ordered scrapping of transfer points and later ordered a fresh draw of lots. This order was challenged by parents whose wards had already secured admissions.
This is the first time admission process has dragged on for so long with points system being changed twice and 15 notifications issued by the Education department, leading to utter confusion.
Comment
Dear all why blame only one person.... he(mr sudhanshu jain) is over smart, influancial person( maybe)....
But think and say to your self that we all here for our own selfish motives.... no body come up or past anything here on this wonderful panel...qhen there ia Nothing happening..... when ever there is something special happening about adMission ....we all just start popping up with string of posts and comments.....(plez dear friends dont take it otherwise)
Thanks Arti Peter for your kind words
@Preeti
read this
Please see what happened in court on 28 Mar related to this case (We had posted this Indian Express )article on 29th Mar earlier also.
The bench had ordered for a fresh draw of lots, minus the five points allotted for transfer cases.Parents of children waiting to enroll into nursery will have to wait longer, with the Delhi High Court on Friday extending the stay on the admissions process till Wednesday.
The court of Acting Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul asked the lawyers for the parents and the Directorate of Education (DoE) to come up with a “viable solution” after a hearing on a plea by parents of 12 wards — who had been admitted under the now abolished interstate transfer category — was disrupted by parents shouting inside the court.
“We must end this, it cannot be allowed to drag on,” the court said. Three pleas against various admission criteria issued by the Lt-Governor were being heard by the court.
During the first draw of lots in February, around 2,000 students had been admitted in the interstate transfer category, while over 17,000 were admitted in the “general” category with 70 points for residing in the vicinity of the school.
The High Court single bench had struck down the results of the first draw after the government informed the court that a number of applicants in the transfer category had submitted “falsified” information. The bench had ordered for a fresh draw of lots, minus the five points allotted for transfer cases.
Both sets of parents had approached the High Court division bench, arguing that the admission granted to their children should not be cancelled since their “chances of getting admission again would be reduced due to a larger pool of eligible students”.
On Friday, senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing for the DoE, opposed the pleas, claiming that “merely because the chances were reduced does not mean that the process be delayed causing inconvenience to the public”.
The court refused to accept the argument, asking the lawyers to come up with a “viable solution” to the issues raised by the 12 parents.
The court also said it would not like to take a decision to allow all of the 2,000-odd students, since only a small group had approached the court.
Arti Peter
Mr Sudhanshu Jain was instigating parents and again asking to join him. so his comments have been removed and he has been blocked.
Thanks Mahesh/ABCD and all parents
We understand parents want end to Nursery Nightmare.
@Sakshi - Thanks a lot for your timely intervention. You and the AN team are doing a great job in ensuring a fair and transparent medium for parents to express views.
@preeti i dont agree .... schools should Not be involved in decision about nnursery admission process ...... as they have lost there credibility. Only parents or parent groups,eminent educationists should be involved. (Disclaimer: with "school" i mean the management body who is running the school and the school as in educational institute)
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