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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 Maharam Tanwar on
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it means your advocacy goes for donation in other words which will help school lobby and roots corruption.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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@ G S Jaswal , We need have more schools , im not saying you don't give best education to your children
All laws and RTE are based on neibourhood concept and also worldwide. so delhi cannot be exception.
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Permalink Reply by lavanya deshpande on
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@ sakshi, for people who stay in sarita vihar, there are no schools within 5Km radius apart from DAV jasola, and St. Giri schools inside sarita vihar. What do parents here do, if the rule is so strict. There are a lot of schools in south delhi so for people who stay there it isnt a problem, as they will have lot of schools within their vicinity. In these cases, people will start shifting their houses closer to where schools are and the whole idea of decentralizing a city wouldnt exist. The next step in few years will be that DDA should stop coming up with housing societies unless they come up with good schools in any area. And for existing people allready staying in a particular place, they have to send their children to schools which arent good or look to leave Delhi totally. That idea did come across my mind a lot of times, why go through such pain and not be comfortable with the school my kid would study in, might as well change jobs and go stay in a better place, where atleast quality of education is not compromised on.
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Dear Lavanya, I think Mr. Akshat will give better reply. Just write to him because he thinks admission should only be based on area.
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if government does come up with something like this, then i will definitely move out of delhi and the news of the same will spread through media and news, i will ensure that my company doesn't transfer anybody to delhi, and propogate the same in other companies that i know of. Let people in delhi be happy and let delhi not have any migratory population. Imagine if the all the cities come up with this system, what would be the condition. Allready a few people along with me who got transferred from other parts of the country here are repenting for coming here, first the horrible climate and then this system.
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Ya Lavanya i agree thats why i said we need more school , not even a public school has been allocated land after 2002 or 2003.
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@ sakshi, the point which needs to be thought is agreed that delhi is a very populated place, and number of schools are lesser here, what happens in other cities? in a place like mumbai the population density/ sqkm of city area must be same as that of delhi, why dont we hear such news from mumbai. Apart from new schools, government should set up some standards for grading of schools in the whole city. Certain parameters in infrastructure, educational and experience qualification of teachers, and some other parameters set for schools - realistic measurable parameters and grade existing schools in delhi under Grades A,B,C. There should also be a target set for each school say a 5 year/ 3 year target and necessary help should be provided by government to the schools in lower grade to try and increase their grade, and the schools should give a status report @ end of 3/5 yrs to explain how they have improved themselves. Apart from new schools, if we can upgrade the existing schools it will add a lot of value to the society too. Allocating new land in a main city is not possible for DDA too, neither can it compromise on open areas/ green areas to allocate land for new schools, i think the target should be a systematic, monitored approach to upgrade existing schools. A committe set up by govenment to ensure that there is someone above school who is constantly keeping a tab on the develepment of the school.
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@Lavanya ,You are spot on.Mr Vohra has been advocating since last 2-3 years that all the govt school should be upgraded to central school level ,where many senior officers also send their kids and after that this prb can be reduced . Or they should be a model on PPP for govt schools without washrooms and basic facilities .
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Sakshiji- Neighbourhood cannot work in Delhi because seats are less and children applying are more. We have already seen how the neighbourhood concept has miserable failed with regards to EWS admission.
We cannot just blindly copy what is being done world wide.
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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Mr.G.S.Jaswal I think you have misunderstood the conept behind neighbourhood points. Neighbourhood concept may be followed world wide and Ganguly committee and our RTE Act too embraces and stress for neighbourhood schools. Even for EWS category HC has set specific km neighbourhood points.
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Ews had failed because schools don't want to give 25% seats (They even don't declare exact number of seats )but it was very successful in schools like dps ,springdales,bal bharti etc . but i agree no system can be foolproof till the intentions of school don't change.
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Exactly. Anyway DOE has caught the vacant seats kept by all schools and invited application for EWS later.
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