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Hindustan Times 8 Oct |Pg 3 ~Revision of point system sought |“Assigning 20-30 points to alumni or double alumni goes against the spirit of RTE". Mr Sumit Vohra
Revision of point system sought
Those in transferable jobs suffer
NEW DELHI: For Vijendra Sehgal (name changed on request) — who works with a multinational company — a transfer to Delhi from Hyderabad spelt bad news.
Today, Sehgal runs in vain from pillar to post to secure a nursery seat in some school for his child in Delhi, thanks to the challenges of the points system, which assigns a significant weightage to the sibling and alumni categories, but an insignificant number of points to transfers.
“I was not aware of the RTE guidelines. But going by them, my child is not likely to secure any seat in Delhi because of the system. I have gone to some NCR schools too, but nothing has worked out so far,” said Sehgal.
Sehgal’s is not an isolated case. Like him, there are several parents who are at the receiving end of the points system.
Schools too echo the same sentiment. “We should make the system flexible and attribute better points to transfer category. New schools have come up in the NCR region and in Dwarka. So parents look at these schools as an alternative, not knowing that the commute can be extremely tiring for the child,” said Ameeta Wattal, vice-chairperson, National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC).
While the system is not as bad for children of defence personnel, it is anything but fair for those whose children do not enjoy a similar safety net. “For parents who work in banks or railways or any other civilian job, this system is unfair. Also, a lot of transfers don’t happen during the admission season. We should consider these factors,” added Wattal.
While several popular schools in the city assign almost 30 points for distance, 30 for sibling and 30 for alumni categories, only 5-10 points are assigned for transfer cases.
“Assigning 20-30 points to alumni or double alumni goes against the spirit of RTE. Some schools openly flout the RTE by assigning points to children of engineers or doctors. The Directorate of Education needs to review this system to ensure some sort of uniformity is maintained,” said Sumit Vohra, founder of www.admissionsnursery.com.
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Permalink Reply by Riti kakkar on
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I am very much in agreement . Yes we can have a separate pool for sibblings but emphasis on distance and first child should be high because most of them will fall on average point category of 40-50.
under distance it could be define by radius like 0-3km-40 points, 3km-7km-30 points etc...first born- 20points etc... Mangement quota to be removed to increse seats for general quota or percenatge to be not more than 5-10%
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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@ Maharamji
Sir
I think special needs and physically challenged kids will come under disadvantage group.
Only first born child can be given point. I came across few cases of twins (different genders) cases who suffered by given girl child a extra point during the admission process. The twin girl child got admission in all the neighbourhood schools and the twin boy did not get through in any of the schools and they have to go for management quota. So equal points for genders or it can be removed.
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I think no parent is against the point system and as mentioned it needs to be flexible and should help in ensuring that every child should get admission in school. This point system only helps the niche class and children who are lucky. No country has such point system where a child has about 30 schools in neighbourhood and cant get admission in any one of them because there are no alumni points, no sibbling pints, no compassionate grounds etc... My daughter stays in vasant kunj and still awaits to try her luck next year to get admission in Vasant valley or DPS or Heritage etc... I have 2 daughters. If my elder one gets admission in a good school then only the younger one future is secure. The educational system is raising the future of the country but this system is only good for few. How can a lottery system decides which kid will get admission in these schools. Schools are like 3mins away from home but kids from gurgaon or saket are getting admission??? suprising... I can very well understand this parent problem who just got transferred from hyderabad. Its a sorry state that he cant get his child admitted to schools of his choice....
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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@Riti, Draw of lots in case of tie on point system ,lets says 45 kids for 23 seats having 35 point each in any school
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Saakshi I agree , we need to identify a solution to this because out of let say 4000 applications about 80% of the lot have same points then what..seats are only 100 for the session out of which 50% is General Quota, 15% is EWS, 25% is Management quota , 5% id staff... so child who has about 20schools in neighbourhood doesnot get admission because of this reason is also not correct.. we need to work towards this issue , how can this be sorted so that every child has a secure future and doesnot lose on his year.
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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on
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@Riti Kakkar, we parents are trying to reach a consensus through this forum and need your suggestion. Parents like you can surely help in achieving the consensus on a broad spectrum of ideology for opportunities to all. Therefore, suggest solution.
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Can v expect kids who are about 3yrs+ doing up and down because of distance for 2-3hrs daily. Its too much to demand from these buds.
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Riti , Ews is 25 % now , Management is 20 % so effectively what we (general)get is 50 % of the total seats
what i meant was hypothetically what if after point system desired by us still (in a particular school) 30 parents have tie in the last and rest 120 are confirmed ,what other formula you will apply for only 10 vacant seats.
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My views:-
(1) Whatever the point system is; it should be same for all schools, allowing schools to give their own points to the given category is just allowing them to manipulate.
(2) Distance, Sibling, Single Parent and Special Needs are the only categories that seems logical to me. Distance must have highest weightage say 50 (further divided as per individuals distance from school), Sibling can have 30, Single Parent 10, Special Needs 10.
(3) Better of all, all this mess, corruption and hassle can be eradicated genuinely if the whole process is go centralized (zone-wise) and computerized in the hand of some parents/school body where all information is out in open. Only one form needs to be submitted and that’s it. No rocket science is required to build such a system, just a will from govt/schools. Ah! I know it is just a dream.
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Manu,Memorandum for centralized admission system was handed over to Director of education P krishnamurthy 2 years back by Mr Vohra and in presence of 150 parents and more than 20 media persons ,when we had protested outside doe office 2 years back but then he had promised to implement it ,but again the same story was repeated last year.
We have copy of that scanned on forum .
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Thanks Sakshi for the information.... And this just proved me right...It is a dream!!!! Govt can never be interested in eradication of corruption, if process is fare and transparent then there is no room for seats for money.... How can poor ministers afford that....
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