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Nursery admissions - Uncertainty back ; schools, parents in a fix

Fees Paid, Uniforms And Books Bought, But Validity Of Admission In Doubt

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New Delhi: In the first half of Friday, teachers of Maharaja Agrasen Public School in Pitampura emailed and SMSed parents of kids admitted to nursery till April 9 that the session was beginning on April 15. Soon they were repeating the exercise, says principal Punam Gupta, to announce that it wasn’t happening. At many schools around the city, fees have been paid, uniforms and books bought and invites for orientation programmes sent out. But, with Supreme Court staying the April 3 Delhi High Court order allowing nursery admissions for those with confirmed seats, it’s back to the waiting game. While nursery classes will not begin on April 15, they’re not sure if the admissions made till April 9 are valid anymore.
    “Out of the 225 seats, 124 had been claimed,” says Gupta, “Some have bought uniforms and books. Some of these seats have gone to siblings but there are 70-pointers as well and they are ones I’m worried about.”
    Schools that put things on hold the moment the process seemed uncertain are better off. Ameeta Mulla Wattal, principal, Springdales School (Pusa Road) and chairperson, National Progressive Schools Conference, has been asking school authorities to be patient from the start and wait for the courts to arrive at a final set of rules. No draws have been held after February 27 (when the transfer points were scrapped) at Springdales. Wattal says she wasn’t going to start the session with just a part of the class on April 15 in any case. “We can’t do this in a piecemeal manner,” she says. “They should come up with a final set of rules so we can go ahead. The order on disability is also yet to be notified.”
    Laxman Public School principal Usha Ram too is glad she’d chosen to not admit any 70-pointers. “There are 43 seats. If transfer points get reintroduced, I’ll just take that number out of the 43 and hold adraw for the rest. It’s simple,” says Ram. “But the stay is very surprising. We have held half the orientation and it was DoE that gave us the go-ahead.”
    The frequent changes in the nursery admission process and schedule are beginning to affect the schools’ regular functioning. Typically, at Agrasen, nursery classes begin two days before the rest. “That way, we can have more than one teacher for each class to help the kids feel comfortable. This time we won’t have that extra help,” says Gupta. They had already made five sections of eight on Friday. LV Sehgal, principal, Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, says schools use the month before summer vacations to help children settle down. Now, he says, it seems likely that classes will not begin before July.
    Parents are calling up schools in panic. “They are tense and school authorities are anxious,” says Sehgal. “This time, most of them have deposited the fee, and for the rest, we thought we’d know by April 16.” Jyoti Arora, principal, Mount Abu Public School, Rohini, is telling parents to “follow the news”.
EVERY YEAR A STRUGGLE
2007 | Delhi government allows schools to formulate own criteria for admitting children
2010 | HRD ministry issues notification allowing categorization; Delhi government issues one based on MHRD notification
    Social Jurist challenges both MHRD and DoE notifications, claiming categorization is not permissible under RTE Act, 2009 and that it amounts to ‘screening’
Feb, 2013 | HC rules RTE Act not admissible with respect to nursery admissions; RTE applicable for kids below 6 only in the case of EWS admissions. MHRD notification invalidated; 2007 notification back into force which has provision for aggrieved parties to appeal to LG
    Social Jurist writes to LG requesting amendment to the Recognised Schools (Admission Procedure for Pre-Primary Class) Order, 2007
Apr | When LG doesn’t decide on the matter, fresh petition filed in HC seeking direction to LG
Sept | HC directs LG to take decision on Social Jurist representation in three months
Dec 9 | DoE announces it has received instruction from LG office that “the present criteria for admission to primary, preprimary and nursery schools should continue for the admission process for 2014”. DoE also says it will seek more time from HC for LG to decide on “long-term changes” Dec 18 | LG issues fresh order following protests; DoE issues revised nursery guidelines; fixes points system
Dec 27 | LG allows order to be amended
Jan 15, 2014 | Admission process begins as per new guidelines
Feb 26 | Three sets of parents go to court: two want transfer points withdrawn; third wants seats reserved for differently-abled children. Government withdraws points for transfer; HC orders fresh draws. HC also asks schools to keep 3% seats vacant while the government conducts a survey on capacity and infrastructure of schools and the number of candidates in the category Feb 27 | DoE issues new guidelines—redraw for only those seats vacated by transfer cases. Erstwhile transfer cases to re-contest with 70 points. Last date for first list pushed back from February 28 to March 15
Mar 6 | HC orders re-draw for all 70-pointers when transfer category applicants challenge DoE’s decision to allow partial re-draw. Those who lose seats turn their ire on alumni and sibling categories
Mar 7 | Fresh petition filed against alumni points
Mar 11 | Another group of parents – of kids selected through nullified first draw – approaches HC
Mar 12 | Entire nursery admission process stayed till Mar 24
Apr 3 | HC lifts stay on admissions for those who have secured confirmed seats. First draws conducted by schools still valid except for transfer cases
    Stay on further draws till next hearing on April 16 when HC will decide on transfers and remaining 70-pointers
    Those with seats ordered to decide and pay fees by April 9
Apr 4 | DoE notifies order, permits schools to begin session with the lot that has been admitted on April 15
Apr 9 | First round of admissions closes
Apr 11 | Supreme Court stays HC’s April 3 order

Nursery admissions put on hold again

Abhinav Garg TNN

Times of India -New Delhi: Uncertainty plagues nursery admissions in the city, yet again, with the process being put on hold on Friday, this time by Supreme Court. Last week, the Delhi high court had lifted its interim stay and allowed schools to begin the admission exercise except in interstate transfer admission cases. The court had deferred till April 16 the hearing to decide the fate of the seats kept vacant under this category.
    Challenging the HC order, parents left out of the process moved the apex court arguing that the transfer category be brought back. The SC bench of Justices H L Dattu and S A Bobde granted interim stay on the plea and issued notice to the Delhi government and other respondents.
    After the admission guidelines were announced, the transfer category was scrapped when the government noticed illegal practices under this category. NURSERY ADMISSIONS
‘Fate of those
who migrated virtually sealed’
The parents who filed the appeal are those who applied for admission for their wards under the inter-state transfer category as they came to Delhi from outside.
    Senior advocate Nidhesh Gupta, representing the petitioner parents, pointed out that the HC order ignores their rights since it excludes them from the admission process. He said by the time HC decides their claims, the entire process will be over. As it is, due to the scrapping of the category, his clients have been forced to vacate the seats secured by them following a successful draw of lots, the petitioners complained to the apex court. Gupta also contended that though the issue was yet to be decided, the fate of the kids falling under this category has been “virtually sealed” as seats vacated by them will now be allotted to those applying for admissions in the neighbourhood category.
    “The result of the HC order is that the petitioners will not even be considered for approximately 60% seats taken by the 70 pointers pursuant to the December 18, 2013 notification,” the lawyer added. On April 3, the HC had given its conditional nod to the nursery admissions as it directed the Delhi government to go by the February 27 notification issued by the Lt Governor. A bench of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Sidharth Mridul had made it clear that the admission process will not include interstate transfer category students as their case would be further heard on April 16.
    The petitioners have also challenged the February 27 notification, which dropped the transfer category from the guidelines. After the Lt Governor removed the transfer category, it was challenged in the HC, which on March 6 directed that fresh draw of lots be held for all kids having 70 points, even those already successful in earlier draws.

Parents say changes may give transfer cases the edge

TIMESNEWSNETWORK

New Delhi: Just when they thought their nursery seats are in the bag, parents have been thrown into uncertainty yet again. The immediate effect of the Supreme Court’s stay on Delhi high court’s permission to begin admissions for some groups was confusion. Parents wondered if the seats they had waited and fought court cases over will slip out of their clutches—again.
    “If the Interstate Transfer (IST) points come back, half the alumni will lose their seats and those with just the 70 neighbourhood points will find their chances of getting seats have slimmed again,” Amit Goel, who scored a seat for his son through alumni category after IST points were scrapped on February 27, said.
    Both sets—alumni and 70-pointers—blame ISTs for the situation they faced in February. That those coming from outside Delhi should get “priority” is a major sore point. That ISTs have “choice”—they will get the extra five points to every school they apply as opposed to alumni who get them in a maximum of two (father and mother)—is another. “Everyone will be affected,” argues Goel. “Now there’s no confirmed seat even for parents who have paid, bought uniforms, attended orientations and celebrated,” says admis sionsnursery .com’s Sumit Vohra. Parents have rejected offers to take admission,” points out Digvijay Singh who had been offered two seats, one as a 70-pointer and another though the alumni category, and picked the second. “HC clearly said we had to choose. If the process changes again, will schools refund fees?”
    The 70-pointers without seats get a raw deal either way. “Instead of giving fair chance to all applicants, Directorate of Education created minority categories and now to give a fair chance to these minorities DoE and the courts are listening to them. In the process, general category applicants (70-pointers) continue to wait for the lottery where odds are 1 to 1,000, while the minorities will get all admissions automatically,” says Sudhanshu Jain. Parents are also wondering
what will now happen at the April 16 HC hearing and whether there’s a possibility of the whole system going back to the state before guidelines were fixed by the lieutenant governor in which case, says a parent, “the school lobby would have won”.
    Ultimately it comes down to data—how many seats went to which category of applicant in the first round of draws. The parents who went to court on the matter alleged that IST cases were eating up all the seats and most were fake. DoE withdraw the points because through a survey of 58 schools, they found about 50% seats had gone to ISTs.
    “But when they conducted a larger survey with more schools, DoE found 60% seats had gone to 70-pointers and only 8% to ISTs. None of the premises on which the points were withdrawn are valid,” argues Kumar Saurabh who’d moved from Mumbai. He is also one of the petitioners in the SC case. “The data shows the number of genuine, verified ISTs are not many,” he said.
TWISTS AND TURNS
    Nursery guidelines based on the LG’s Dec 18 order allocated 5 points—equivalent to alumni category—to interstate transfers (IST)
    Schools reported large numbers of IST applications
    Parents applying under alumni and neighbourhood (75 points) or just distance (70 points) categories complained ‘outsiders’ stand a better chance than Delhiites, allege most IST cases are fake
    DoE orders schools to be vigilant; sets up committee for inspections in schools
    Parents move court; DoE analyses application and seat data from 58 schools and withdraws 5 IST points. Original IST applicants now join 70-pointers. But, DoE allows 70-pointers already selected through draws to retain seats. A second round of draws announced, and in some cases held, for newly vacated seats
    DoE gathered more data and informed court that 60% seats were going to 70-pointers in just the first draw: a figure contested by many parents
    IST applicants argue their numbers are much lower than assumed, and they can’t be penalized for government’s decision. Once the game is won, rules can’t be changed; SC had refused to stay guidelines in Jan
    The petition in SC, which brought the stay, wants original guidelines to be considered valid
Times View
Courts and school administration have made the parents of small children go through enormous stress and uncertainty because they just can’t determine, for once and for all, what process should be followed for nursery admissions in Delhi. A blame game is not relevant at this point in time. What’s needed is speedy settlement of the issue, so that all concerned know exactly where they stand. The apex court must ensure that this happens. The sooner, the better.

The Hindu

Parents tired of the yes-no game

The nursery admissions, which is fast turning out to be a never-ending “saga”, has been stayed again by the Supreme Court. The “new” guidelines which were released on December 18 by the Lieutenant-Governor have undergone several amendments and litigations, which have been perpetuated by different parent and activist groups. The end result is that all the stakeholders are angry and fed-up.

“Neither the parents nor the school managements deserve this. Parents have been going from pillar-to-post trying to get their children into school. The guidelines have been changed so much and every time we go ahead with admitting children something else comes up and we have to start again. The fault is not with anyone except for the Directorate of Education which released the guidelines in a hurried manner without taking any of our views, without even consulting educationalists like us,” said Ms. Ameeta Wattal, Springdales principal and chairperson of the National Progressive School Conference, an organisation of most private schools in the city.

Parents were also a tired and frustrated lot. “I have submitted the fee, bought the uniforms and books today. Now what do I do? Some highly educated people are making a joke of everything,” said Mukesh Shokeen, a parent.

“Litigation after litigation is playing with the potential future of several kids,” said another frustrated parent, Anshul Kwatra.

Some, tired by the constant back-and-forth, said it was a good thing that the Supreme Court had taken up the issue. “This is the third time nursery admissions have been stayed in the last two months. There have been more than 15 notifications from the DoE. The ball is now in the Supreme Court, so whatever decision comes will be final and binding on all without further scope of public interest litigations on this issue,” said Sumit Vohra, who runs the information service admissionsnursery.com .

The Directorate of Education had earlier this month released guidelines ordering all private schools across the city to complete admissions for nursery by April 9 and begin classes by April 15. It held valid all the draw of lots conducted while banning any new draw of lots, following the High Court's order, lifting its stay on the admission process.

“We were expecting this, any new guideline is always placing some children at a disadvantage. The DoE needs to clean up this mess,” added Ms. Wattal.

INDIAN EXPRESS

Order has parents fuming, schools very confused

April 12, 2014 12:59 am

Parents said there was no clarity about whether the stay would affect children who were already admitted. (Archive)

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Parents also expressed dismay over the order.

agreed to hear the plea of private unaided schools on the issue on January 31.

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Schools move HC,seek stay on new rules

Nursery mess deepens, stay on fresh draw of lots

Confusion and chaos once again descended on parents and schools in the capital on Friday with the Supreme Court passing an order that put on hold the nursery admission process for the third time in two months.

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“It’s a big mess and we don’t know what to do anymore. Does this translate to a stay on the admission process, or is it just a stay on interstate transfer points? We will obtain some clarity on this only after the High Court hearing, and, till then, everything will be in a limbo,” S K Bhattacharya, president, Action committee for Unaided Private Schools, said.

“We were expecting this development since a section of parents went entirely unrepresented in the High Court order. In fact, we didn’t start nursery classes in schools, because directions on inter-state transfers and children with disability were still awaited. But we had admitted children and taken fees from parents, in accordance with the directives given to us by the Department of Education,” Ameeta Mulla Wattal, Chairman, National Progressive Schools Conference, said.

“Needless to say, the admission process will be delayed, but we need more clarity on what to do next. For now, I have asked all private schools to wait and watch, since we do not want to be held in contempt of court,” she said.

Parents also expressed dismay over the order. “Does this stay affect the children who have already been admitted? What will happen on April 16? What are the possibilities and which group of parents will be affected by this? I have withdrawn my child from a Christian school after a confirmed admission in a better school. What happens to my child now?” Pankaj Kohli, a parent, said.

But, for others like Sanjib Komar, whose child despite having secured 70 points was unable to get an admission, the order has offered a ray of hope. “Maybe, I’ll finally be able to get my child admitted to a good school.”

This is the first time the admission process has dragged on so long with the points system being revised twice and 15 notifications by the Education department.

“It’s the third time in the last two months that admission has been stayed. It is high time a final decision is reached on admission,” said Sumit Vohra, founder of admissionsnursery.com, said.

Preschool admission no nursery rhyme

Saturday, 12 April 2014 | Iknoor Kaur | New Delhi

Parents’ relief consequent to Delhi High Court’s order allowing commencement of nursery admission in Delhi proved to be shortlived. The Supreme Court on Friday put a stay on nursery admissions in the city bringing back the same distress and panic among parents and school authorities.

The order comes a week after the Delhi High Court gave the green signal to admissions and parents were expecting admission of their children sooner. The stay order came on a petition filed by parents challenging the HC’s order saying children who have shifted from a different State to Delhi will get no quota. The Court has also issued notice to the Delhi Government.

Since most of the admissions were already done based on the February 27 guidelines as per the ruling, parents who have paid the fees and gone through the rigmarole of orientation are panic struck at the moment. Nitin Talwar, parent of a three-year-old, said, “It is the question of my child’s admission and looking at the way things are going I don’t even know if she will go to school this year or not.”

Principals of schools say they are awaiting elaborate instructions from the Directorate of Education (DoE) before telling parents anything. “We don’t want to confuse parents further by giving them half-baked information. The last four months have been tragic and there has been nothing but confusion. These kids are losing out the most. It is so emotionally taxing and we at this position can’t do anything but follow orders,” said Ameeta Mulla Wattal, Principal, Springdale School.

However, due to this, parents are complaining that schools are not giving them a clear picture as to whether their child’s admission stands valid or not. “When I spoke to school authorities they said that the school wouldn’t be starting on April 15, that’s all. We were so relaxed because our daughter had finally got her uniform and she was so excited. But now we are again disappointed,” said Payal Gupta, a resi

Schools are now expected to open only in July since the summer break is approaching. Founder of Lovely Public School in East Delhi RP Malik said that parents should not fret over admissions and instead wait for the date when schools will begin term. The Delhi High Court will pass a ruling on April 16 declaring the decision on inter-State transfers, after which the date for the session to start will be decided upon.

HINDUSTAN TIMES

‘It’s time for courts to solve the mess, the kids need to go to school’

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From page 1 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the entire nursery admission process in Delhi, putting parents once again in misery. Angry parents have termed the continuous delay as cruel and unjust.

SONU MEHTA/HT FILE PHOTO Angry parents have termed the continuous delay as ‘cruel’ and ‘unjust’.

Furious parents now have one question. “Why can’t we figure out a way to conduct admissions once and for all? We are all tired of this delay, which is nothing short of torture. The high court had finally come out with an order that marked an end to the madness but the Supreme Court’s stay has brought us back to square one yet again,” said Arvind Kumar, a parent whose daughter took admission in a central Delhi school last week. For a number of parents, the issue is no longer the points system or the controversial transfer points but the apathy of the authorities.

“It is the middle of April now and I think it is time for the courts to call an end to this mess. The children need to go to school,” said Anubha Menon, a parent.

The exorbitant legal fee being charged in the name of nursery admissions has also irked parents. According to them, lawyers are charging more than of ` 1 lakh for a single hearing.

“A middle-class salaried person like me will never file a petition even if his child is not selected in a top-notch school. For us, the only option is to compromise with the quality of education in the school where our child has been selected,” said Himanshu Vatsa, a parent who applied to 29 schools in east and central Delhi but whose daughter has not got admission in a single school so far.

Schools, too, are hoping for a final solution. “I wish the resolution to this issue is found once and for all, even if it takes some time so that we can finally get down to education. Everyone is directionless right now and things are in a state of limbo. As for the parents who went to the Supreme Court, it was more or less expected. These parents are feeling cheated after their children’s admission was stripped off. We are all left wondering what the light at the end of the tunnel is,” said Ameeta attal, chairperson, National Progressive Schools’ Conference.

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Comment by Rahul uppal on April 14, 2014 at 12:22pm: Cant we file a Mental harassment case against the honourable courts itself for accepting all these bin sir paar ki PILs and making our life hell and this whole drama is taking a toll on my health and work efficiency and my mind is disturbed, and I think lot of parents must be going through this condition like I am going through.
As parents we encounter all the time that our children keep on asking for various things good or bad, and we always know where to say a NO, the same is with courts they should know where to say a NO in the best interest of the majority and not to accept each and every PiL/appeal without thinking of the consiquences happening to majority public, without thinking of the mental and health harassment this all gives to the majority parents.

Comment by gurleen Kaur on April 14, 2014 at 11:02am: I have just one ques? SC has not stated next date of hearing, so what next? Case can not be proceeded in HC I guess as SC is involved now......
When next somebody will going to take a call on decision?
I am not aware about our legal system, can somebody tell me what will be next course of action?

Comment by mahesh jain on April 12, 2014 at 3:12pm

Comment by Arvinder Kaur Bhandoola on April 12, 2014 at 1:44pm: Oh ok

Comment by richa nidhi on April 12, 2014 at 1:01pm: Rama Krishna senior secondary ,vikaspuri

Comment by Arvinder Kaur Bhandoola on April 12, 2014 at 12:38pm: Richa which school?

Comment by richa nidhi on April 12, 2014 at 12:34pm: Great, got call from my daughter school. The classes that will be going to start from 15 th has been suspended now for further court order......pathetic situation and responsibles r all those who did fraud in IST cases....khud to dube sanam, sabko sath le dube

Comment by Suneet Sethi on April 12, 2014 at 12:10pm: Folks - this might just be a temporary halt so please stay optimistic. Data will play a critical role as of now and these are my calculations basis realistic assumptions(only for Nursery). if we take the data submitted in court by DOE starting April then

1. a total of 282,730 applications were submitted for Nursery which on an average of 5 (assuming everyone applied for 5 schools in minimum) comes to 56546 candidates for 32,036 seats (open category)

2. Assume that only siblings and staff quota are allowed to keep their seats . this number is 8812 and 671 respectively so we left with 22,553 seats for alumni, 70 pointers and IST (including girl child)

3. there are a total of 14,433 seats allotted to alumni, 70 pointers and girl quota on which all parents had to choose only one and release remaining by April 9th. Assuming that 33% seats were released as I know every second parent who was choosing between one or the other but still taking 33% on a conservative side - 4763 seats got released.

4. Released seats (4763) + open seats (8120) = 12883 seats are open for remaining 70 pointers and IST.

in the end only 9670 seats have been allocated to alumni and 70 pointers and there are more number of seats which will be open so IST is getting a fair chance as there is not much of a difference in ratio / chances of acquiring a seat. IST are still to benefit.

I think its just a matter of time and judicial system addressing the rights of citizens but they know what they have to do systematically and in what time. I think we should ease out as of now.