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Delhi Court stays order on quota at St Columba's~ZEE NEWS(IANS)

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed a Delhi government order reserving 20 percent seats in St Columba's school for students belonging to the economically weaker sections.

Justice Manmohan passed an interim order staying the government notification, which he said "has been passed without application of mind".

St Columba's moved the high court challenging the December 18 notification of Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, saying the Supreme Court had excluded minority schools from the ambit of Right to Education Act.

The apex court held April 12, 2012 that the act would not apply to unaided minority schools and imposing a quota for children from poor families on such schools violated Article 30 of the Constitution.

Jung is an alumnus of St Columba's.

On December 18, Jung ordered all the schools in Delhi, including minority schools, which got land from the government, to also admit 20 percent children from the weaker sections in the neighbourhood.

Delhi government counsel Zubeda Begum told the court that in 1966, land was given to the school on concessional basis so that they kept 20 percent of their seats to the economically weaker sections.

The association of unaided private schools has also moved the high court challenging the Delhi government notification. It has called the order "absolutely illegal, arbitrary and without jurisdiction".

IANS

First Published: Wednesday, January 08, 2014, 13:32

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on January 10, 2014 at 12:03pm

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As of now yes but ,today court will hear schools plea .so let wait and watch.

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Permalink Reply by ashu on January 10, 2014 at 3:01pm

I hope this norm will apply only to EWS admissions.. Moreover, I just wanted to have your view.. Though this must have been addressed earlier as well over EWS quota.. before applying EWS, the DOE has not thought over the long term repercussions of the same..Till a certain age, the kids may not think over d disparity between a kid from normal earning family and EWS family.. But there will be a time when he or she will think definitely.. this no doubt will impact the psychological well being of a child and later the thought process might hamper d overall personality.. By including EWS, govt indirectly supports the fact that govt schools for them are not good enough.. there should be equality in d section of d families d kids represent..I think before putting EWS quota, they should think over improving the quality of govt schools.. n we should agree a school may improve a kid's personality but d atmosphere in home does play a great role..

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Permalink Reply by Vineet Malhotra on January 10, 2014 at 6:06pm

I differ with most opinions on this forum regarding reservation for ews in minority schools. Our country is used to dividing people on basis of communities, religion, language etc in the garb of providing minority benefits. Therefore if they already take advantage of the said status , they must be willing to share the burden of EWS distribution also.
We must have uniform criteria for reservation across the board or no reservation at all.