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No nursery admissions in private Delhi schools till final verdict, orders court
Delhi, Updated Jan 28, 2013 at 06:07pm ISTCNN-IBN
Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered private schools in Delhi to not allow nursery admissions till it gives a final verdict on the validity of government's 2010 notification and whether it follows the Right to Education Act. "Schools cannot formulate their own admission policies," the court further ordered.
The notification allows schools in Delhi to formulate their own guidelines and preferences based on religion, sibling and alumni to admit children in nursery. The court had earlier said the Centre and the Delhi government cannot "dilute" RTE Act by allowing unaided private schools to use their own criteria for nursery admissions.
The court had also said the ongoing nursery admission process in Delhi would be cancelled if it decides to "quash" the notification issued on December 15, 2010 by the Directorate of Education (DoE) on behalf of Delhi government.
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Permalink Reply by Naresh Kumar on
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very much correct
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It is very sad that all the decisions/modifications regarding the admission are always done at the eleventh hour, if not later
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Verdict would affect nursery admission for 2013-14'
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STAFF WRITER 18:45 HRS ISTNew Delhi, Jan 28 (PTI) The Delhi High Court today made it clear that its decision on a PIL, challenging government notifications giving powers to unaided private schools to formulate their own criteria, would also affect nursery class admissions for the academic session 2013-14.
"Our order (on the PIL) would also be applicable on nursery admission for ensuing academic session 2013-14," a bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain said.
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Verdict on PIL would affect nursery admission for 2013-14: Delhi HC
Last Updated: Monday, January 28, 2013, 19:11
00Tags: Delhi, Delhi High Court, PIL, Nursery admissionNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday made it clear that its decision on a PIL, challenging government notifications giving powers to unaided private schools to formulate their own criteria, would also affect nursery class admissions for the academic session 2013-14.
"Our order (on the PIL) would also be applicable on nursery admission for ensuing academic session 2013-14," a bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain said.
The court's observation came during the hearing of the PIL, filed by NGO Social Jurist, against two notifications, issued by the Human Resources Development Ministry and the Directorate of Education of Delhi government.
The PIL alleged that these two notifications have "given a totally free hand to all unaided recognised private schools to formulate their own nursery admission criteria based on categorisation of children..."However, the categorisations of kids by schools in admission have specifically been barred by the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, it said, adding some schools give preferences in admission on grounds such as religion, alumni and sibling.
"You (DoE) cannot dilute the provision of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act. You are giving preference to one child over another, which is against the Act, by allowing them (schools) to formulate their own admission criteria," the court said.
"We will have to test the notifications ... And how far such powers can be extended to schools (by the governments under the Act)... If you give liberty to the schools then the whole purpose of the Act would be lost," it said.
However, the counsel, appearing for an association of private unaided schools, said that schools be allowed to formulate reasonable admission criteria.
The court would also hear the arguments tomorrow on the PIL.
Earlier, the NGO's counsel Ashok Agarwal had said that he wanted the law to be settled on the issue and would not like the ongoing admission process for current academic session to be affected by the court order as all kids are alike and innocent.
"Whole ongoing nursery admission process would go if we decide to quash the notification issued on December 15, 2010 by the Directorate of Education (DoE) on behalf of Delhi government," the court had said.
The NGO alleged that the power given to schools to lay down admission criteria was "contrary to Section 13 of the Act which says that there would be no screening process of either parents or of kids and no child would be discriminated against. It also provided that admission would be taken by way of draw of lots and the neighbourhood would be only criteria."
Separate guidelines cannot be framed by schools, it said, adding that despite the law being "clear", the schools have been formulating their own guidelines and according preferences in admission processes on various discretionary grounds.
On November 23, 2010, the HRD ministry had issued guidelines under the RTE that had allowed the schools to frame their own admission criteria, the NGO alleged.
Later, DoE of Delhi government also issued the guidelines on similar lines, the PIL said.
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Y dont u do it in march end when all the fees wil be deposited. ..den u put ur ransom demands...parents have to face individual schools crieteria, touts, gazzetted officers n doctors. ...n now ho'ble high court awakes at da end of it n say...do it again plz...FO
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good one ;)
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the problem is the parents gave all the power to the so called custodians and now obviously the parents are crying because in the end parents will be the loser. some will be left crying...... in which country in the world this kind of admission process happens for private schools.
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Well in Delhi... atleast there is a starting to come to a formal transparent system for admission... what about the rest of India... or simply the satellite towns of Gurgaon and Noida.... there is no system whatsoever there... is the High Court Order be effective there as well... after all it is an argument based on a constitutional right,, it should be implemented pan India then.
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Permalink Reply by Varun Soneja on
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When is the next hearing of this PIL in question. will the court hear this pil on a daily basis to give their verdict in the next couple of days ? NO WAY !!!!
This is typical of our sarkari babus .
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Permalink Reply by Sandeep on
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So typical of these babus being removed from reality and being inconsiderate ambiguous stupid and impractical. Am shocked how they can just jam the entire process.
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@Amit ..Every one who has paid the admission fee..would like to know the same ...What will happen now. It becoming nightmare day by day to get the admission. Do we have to undergo the process again ..again.
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For every person who has been selected, there are at least 50 who haven't been selected. What about them? Many of the folks who have been selected got through fake transfer certificates and sibling and alumni points and what not.
The points system must be eradicated or revamped to include only neighbourhood criteria. The fees paid by all parents should be refunded.
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