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FRONT PAGE TOI DT 2 JAN 2011BERTH PANGS Nursery ‘general’ seats shrink to half -POINT RAISED ON FRONT PAGE OF TOI AFTER COMPLAIN FROM BALWINDER KAUR ARORA AND SJAIN ON Mr Vohra Request THANKS TO TOI

BERTH PANGS

Nursery ‘general’ seats shrink to half

Neha Pushkarna | TNN

New Delhi: Only half the total nursery seats will be available to parents
who claim no special quota privileges and want their three-year-olds to
get admission this year.
    With 25% of seats blocked for the economically weaker sections and another 20% set aside under management
quota, children who come from the general category will fight for the
remaining seats. Not just that, some schools have seats reserved for
staff. Siblings and children of alumni also get a preference. Parents of
children who don’t belong to any of these categories will have
sleepless nights.
    Here are some telling figures: DPS East of Kailash has just 90 general seats out of a total 180. Forty-five are earmarked for EWS and 36 for the management quota. If the child has a sibling at
the school, he/she starts with an advantage of 26 points. And if the
child’s parent happens to be an alumnus, he/she has a 24-point head
start.
    At Springdales, Pusa Road, 52 seats go to the general category out of 102. Vasant Valley has 46 general seats out of 90. ‘Opening new schools is the only way out’
New Delhi: Most schools in the city are only offering half the total number
of nursery seats to general category students. The figures are quite
startling at DPS Rohini where 50% of the 140 seats will be up for grabs
in the general category. These 70 seats will be equally divided in two
categories — siblings and others. The breakup
posted on the school website says only 35 seats will be left for the
‘others’. The principal of the school was not available for comment.
    “This was bound to happen as 25% seats straightaway go to the EWS category.
Parents should accept this as poor children don’t deserve poor schools.
We should give them an equal opportunity. Besides the EWS quota, we have
set aside 15% for the management, even though the Directorate of
Education (DoE) has allowed up to 20%,” said Ameeta Mulla Wattal,
principal, Springdales School, Pusa Road.
    Delhi schools have anyway been reserving 10-15% seats for EWS under orders from Delhi
government. With RTE being implemented from this year, this EWS quota
has gone up to 25%.
    D K Bedi, principal, Apeejay School, Pitampura, explained, “We used to reserve 10% seats for EWS till last
year and 5% for staff children. But this time, only EWS reservation is
25%. We can’t increase total strength in the existing building. Opening
new schools is the only way forward.”

NURSERY RUSH IN NEW YEAR

Parents Queue Up For Forms

As January 1 Was A Holiday, Most Parents Used The Opportunity To Buy Admission Forms

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

    Many young parents started their new year with the big challenge of finding a
nursery seat for their three-year-olds in at least one of the 1950-odd
schools in the city. As the ‘great nursery admission rush’ began on
Saturday, parents were there at the school counters early in the
morning. Most of them wanted to utilize the first day of the year — for
many it was a holiday — to buy admission forms for as many schools as
possible. They admitted that the availability of online forms of many
schools had made their lives a little easier.
    Ravi Jain from Chandni Chowk, who set out with his wife and three-year-old son in the
morning, had aimed at covering at least six schools on the first day. He
had also made a list of 24 schools, along with their locations and
important dates, to help him in his recce. His wife, Anita, said, “We
hope to buy forms from all schools in central Delhi. We will have to
apply in at least six or seven schools to have good chances for our
son’s admission.” She added as
she came out of a school at Humayun Road after buying the form, “I hope
we can secure admission for our child in a good school.”
    Another parent, Ahmed from Daryaganj, said he and his wife were planning to
take a couple of days off from work. “Thankfully, many schools have
online forms this year. We
will take a few days’ leave. My wife will buy the forms and I will go
and submit them,” he said. For many parents, Saturday was a tough day
after partying the previous night. “We didn’t have an option but to
start our day early. There was a long queue in the morning even though
there are two weeks to go before the sale of forms gets over,” said
Sonia, who had been waiting outside a well-known school in Vikaspuri for
over 30 minutes and was still far from the counter.
The first day largely passed smoothly though some parents at Summerfields School in
Kailash Colony claimed the school ran out of forms. In fact, the school
is offering limited number of forms at first-come-first-served basis.
However, school principal Rema Alex Daniel denied that the forms got
exhausted on Day 1. “This is just a rumour. In fact, we gave out forms
till 2pm even though the timing was from 9am to 1pm. We sold 393 on the first day,” she said.
    She added that the school had planned to give out nearly 2,000 forms this
season because the number of seats available is only 169. So, what if
all the forms get sold out before January 15 — the last date for sale of
forms as per the directorate of education? “Then we might not print
more forms. We don’t want parents to later complain as to why we gave
out so many forms when we didn’t have enough seats,” she replied.
However, Sumit Vohra, founder of an online forum for parents,
complained, “How can they stop giving the forms before the last date?
This is against the DoE rules.”
BACK TO SCHOOL
ADMISSION FORMS WILL BE ON SALE FROM MONDAY AT
Springdales | Pusa Road/Dhaula Kuan/Kirti Nagar
St Francis De Sales | Janakpuri
Montfort School | Ashok Vihar
GD Goenka | Vasant Kunj
St Columba’s | Near Gole Market
Bal Bharti | Pitampura
Mount Carmel | Anand Niketan
Ahlcon Public | Mayur Vihar
ADMISSION CRITERIA – PARAMETERS AND POINTS
Springdales | Pusa Road/ Dhaula Kuan/Kirti Nagar
Sibling 35, alumni 25, residence up to 20, minority 10, girl child 5, inter-state or overseas transfer 5
DPS | EoK/Vasant Vihar
Neighbourhood 26, sibling 26, ex-student 24, first born/girl child 06, children with
minimum special needs 06, single parent 06, participants of Olympics,
Asian Games, CWG 06
Vasant Valley | Vasant Kunj
Neighbourhood 25, sibling 25, first-born 10, alumni 5, contribution by parents to
community or country up to 25, compassionate grounds 05, overseas
transfer and children of armed forces/police personnel 5
Modern | Vasant Vihar
Seats for children of alumni 20%, seats for sibling 20%, seats to be reserved
under the RTE Act 25%, school/management 20%. Rest of the seats will
come for general candidates who do not fall in the above mentioned
categories
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FORM VERIFICATION
Ration card, voter ID, passport, telephone, electricity bill/their attested copies for residence proof
Birth certificate of the child/attested photocopy as a proof for date of birth
School leaving certificate, class XII marksheet for alumni
Relieving letter of previous employer to prove a transfer case

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Permalink Reply by Ashish Agarwal on January 2, 2011 at 12:26pm

EWS category & Management quota guys will have bright furture than a General Category Kids. Its feel like that we have done some crime to be in a general category. General catergory is just sitting & watching the game played by schools for money & government for money & votes by gaining the points i following catogeries

EWS
Minorities
A class officers
Management etc.

I request Mr Vohra & media to have roud of differnt schools & you will not found any person of the above category is worried about the admission. Mr. Vohra out of 25000 members of AN.com, how many are from the above category & positing their comments & worries about admission

It is all the general category, which is running here & there with sleepless nights for admission

We all are writing & raising the posints, but governmet is just sleeping, schools are doing what ever they want. Nobody is actually cared for anything

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Permalink Reply by 0tu16o1m4hii8 on January 2, 2011 at 12:27pm

With the population growing at an alarming rate, the seats getting quota privileges, the only way we can get each child admitted to school is by opening new schools. We have to do something about this as every child is well deserving and there should not be any child left behind.

How can the schools have a quota for giving out the forms I don't understand. Why can't schools follow the rules set by DoE? I am glad that we have a forum like this to discuss these issues and someone to raise the voice for us.

Way to go admissionsnursery.com!

You can not only talk the talk, but walk the walk too!

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Permalink Reply by Aashita Dayal on January 2, 2011 at 12:52pm

Salwan Public School Pusa Road is issuing forms for nursery at Rs. 150/-

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Permalink Reply by bijendra on January 2, 2011 at 1:06pm

Really a grim situation this year for General category...seen long queues yesterday since early in the morning...

thanks Sumit sir for raising this point via media..

as we all know kids from this category have a big hand in making a school's name proud by having excellent academic results..so how will schools cope with that now....further how can we guarantee that only needy people get the benefit of EWS category and their is no manipulation...let the real feel behind upliftment of EWS come into reality by bringing them in main stream but at the same time schools should have increased their total nos. of seats to accommodate more nos. of general category students...