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MOST LIKELY Delhi education minister says no changes in nursery guidelines| However, admission age currently under review ; HINDUSTAN TIMES DT 8 NOV PAGE 4

MOST LIKELY Delhi education minister says no changes in guidelines; HINDUSTAN TIMES DT 8 NOV PAGE 4

However, admission age currently under review LAST YEAR'S GUIDELINES WERE BASED ON RTE ACT AND RESERVED 25% SEATS FOR ECONOMICALLY WEAKER SECTIONS
While many parents may be hoping for some changes in nursery admission guidelines this year, these are most likely going to remain the same as last year.

Delhi education minister, Arvinder Singh on Monday said that there are going to be no changes in the guidelines and that they are expected to be notified by the end of this month. The criterion of admission age, however, is under review by the court currently.

An NGO had filed a petition in the high court last week, saying that three years is too young for admission to Nursery.

The court has asked the Delhi government for a reply regarding the plea by November 23.

“The guidelines will remain the same. We are not introducing any change. The court has only asked us for an explanation regarding the age,“ said Singh.

Though many experts, including HRD minister Kapil Sibal, have maintained that nursery admission should be done at the age of four, Singh has maintained that this step would disadvantage Delhi students as they will pass class 12 at the age of 18, a year later than students from many other states.

Last year's guidelines were based on the Right to Education (RTE) Act and reserved 25% seats for those belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS).

Out of the remaining 75%, 20% were reserved as the school's management quota and 5% for children of school staff.

Mandatory points were to be given on the basis of four categories -siblings, alumni, single parents and transfer cases.
Schools were also given the freedom to include other categories such as neighbourhood and girl child.

The clauses that faced the most flak were points for alumni and the school's management quota.

“According to the RTE Act, schools cannot give or deny admission on the basis of education, income and profession of parents. But giving points from alumni enables schools, especially the high-profile ones to do just that,“ said Sumit Vohra, who owns the website admissionsnursery.com, a website that has 35000 parents as members.

“By giving high points for alumni schools are enabled to screen students. They can easily judge the income level and the education of parents, something that the RTE Act prohibits,“ he added.

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on November 8, 2011 at 12:43pm

Alumni point should be removed completely its against the spirit of RTE

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Permalink Reply by Narinder Arora on November 8, 2011 at 12:54pm

Dear All,

I strongly condemn the statement made by the Education Minister. He is just trying to mislead the parents and his own government at the same time. If the child starts at the age of 4, he would have to simply complete 1 year of education before he/she is promoted to Class I. So in effect a child starts education from Class I at the age of 5 which happens presently as well. The only difference it would make to schools is loss of earnings for 1 year which they make in the name of nursery or pre-school by admitting children at the age of 3. I would urge all the members to condemn this statement and send written letters in this regard to the Minister with a copy to the Chief Minister - Shiela Dixit and HRD Minister - Kapil Sibal. At the same time I would like to advise the Education Minister to concentrate on Transport Deptt as he holds that portfolio as well if he does not understand education and other deptt is also not doing very well.

In case any person needs any help with regards to admission for their child this year especially in North Delhi, the can contact me at narinder_6in@yahoo.com and I would be ready to provide all necessary help so parents can benefit in getting admissions otherwise these erring schools are of no help for anyone except money.

Thanks and Regards

CA Narinder Arora

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Permalink Reply by Sumit Vohra (Webmaster) on November 8, 2011 at 1:19pm

Dear Narinderji

Thanks for your constant help to parent community and I concur with you !!

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Permalink Reply by bijendra on November 8, 2011 at 7:35pm

thanks Narinder ji for extending support to needy parents..

but i think what Mr.Lovely wanted to put forth was the RTE guideline which states that everywhere in the country a child must enter class 1 at age of 6...and as RTE is being implemented only in state of Delhi other states will be adhering to their prevailing different age criteria...so the ball is laready in court of Mr.Sibal to implement RTE pan India by having equal entry age (as per RTE 6 yrs at Class1) at the preschooling years too...all state governments should be taken in confidence by the centre HRD...till then it will be the same contentious issue...

further DOE did some hard work last year to come out with admissions guidelines...and this year under pvt.schools' lobby pressure they seem to be continuing with the same as hinted by the minister...again parents are at loss...

when pan India govt. boast of one board i.e CBSE..then why can't it force all affiliated schools to adhere to the same guidelines...why NCR other states have that different than NCT...Ganguly committee advice was pertinent at that point of time...but now in Delhi there are much more nos. of eligible Kids...and a very few so called good schools...so that creates the undue pressure on these tiny tots & their hapless parents and give a chance to play freely for the pvt. schools in name of mgmt.seats.....

...again we shall suggest the parents same usual way of applying to many nos. of schools,focussing more on the neighourhood schools to garner more points, be upright to fill and submit application forms in time.....and then just wait for the outcome.....it's not done....some fundamental change in the process is to be made...

is DOE/Govt/HRD ministry hearing??

-Bij:)

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on November 8, 2011 at 7:45pm

Thanks Bij sir for throwing light and your constant support to forum ,

we think
you are messanger of god for parents in distress

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Permalink Reply by 1f7gulsld1c0a on November 8, 2011 at 2:00pm

having a single male child we like a disadvantage for the parents as it creates the problem in getting addmission in the schools on the name of many clauses. also, i think being the single parent is an added advantage for both parents and kids. Is our education system is promoting the family value or single parenting.

yamini

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Permalink Reply by 0drudion1kh59 on November 8, 2011 at 2:13pm

being single parent is never an added advantage...circumstances create single parents.n your education system demands all the necessary documents.be it divorce decree or death certificate...What if any one is not legally separated from the spouse and has not filed for divorce!!I am such a parent..where do I STAND?????

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Permalink Reply by Narinder Arora on November 8, 2011 at 2:17pm

I think these criteria are creating a divide in the society rather than helping anyone and doing nothing more than hurting the sentiments of people

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Permalink Reply by 1f7gulsld1c0a on November 9, 2011 at 3:42pm

hi mamta i m sorry if i hurt u but my intensions were not like that, i was just saying that being the single parent became an added advantage for the nursery addmission.

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Permalink Reply by rahul gulati on November 17, 2011 at 6:08pm

@ mamta

dont worry mamta.

A complex problem always has a simple solution to it.

Only thing required is to think out of the box and explore all possibilties !

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Permalink Reply by 230yi5uz57480 on November 8, 2011 at 2:56pm

Absolutely ridiculous....This is rubbish. It seems if I am in a happy married life..am still conventional and stay with my in laws and have nothing in my name(since they are my parents I dont really need a meter or phone in my name...!!) and if I have a boy child then there is no chance that I can get admission!! Narinder ji...would need your help surely!!

Kalpna

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Permalink Reply by Narinder Arora on November 8, 2011 at 3:00pm

Sure - Lets work together now by forming a group through this forum and raise our concerns. It is high tiome before the Govt comes out with some odd guidelines as in the past. I am ready to do so. Need all your support

Thanks