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Times of India 18~Transfer norm fails to assure parents
NEW DELHI: Last year, Shantanu Mehrotra had "a total of 20-30 points" for nursery admissions and was unable to secure a seat for his daughter. This year he has 70 points but still no seat. He blames transfer cases for this. Responding to complaints, the Directorate of Education, Delhi, has issued a fresh set of guidelines, specifically on admissions under this category. On Monday, it issued another order on the composition of "inspection teams" in each district.
The deputy director of education (DDE) will serve as chairperson and the other two members of the team will be an education officer and a superintendent. "The inspection team will conduct random checks of schools, even in post-admission periods, to verify certificates and documents submitted by parents and approved by schools to ensure their genuineness and acceptability in terms of admission criteria," says the order. "Action will be taken by the DDE concerned against parents and schools who have violated the admission criteria or manipulated documents," it states.
As this process kicks-off, Mehrotra will be attending draw-of-lots for the girls' quota, but is out of the race for general category in 22 schools. In four others where he tried to apply, there was an upper-age limit.
"I've attended the draws for some schools but for girls there are a maximum of 10 seats and thousands of applicants. Many are now pinning their hopes on the second list-assuming there is one.
"I've applied to over 55 schools because I saw this coming," says another parent. He's in the worst place possible-his is the first child and a boy. Not quota for him. "I have applied even in schools beyond eight kilometers just in case things change," he says adding, "And it was easy to do. But the number of schools hasn't improved his chances. "I have no choice but to wait for the second round of draws."
One batch of parents is planning to file a court case. They are also hoping to meet LG Najeeb Jung, on whose order the existing nursery guidelines are based. "Parents born and brought up in Delhi are left out as preference of education is given to people who have transferred from outside. Many parents have applied to 15-20 schools-within an eight kilometre radius-but their names are not even shortlisted for the draw. Even candidates with 75 points have been waitlisted," says Sumit Vohra of admissionsnursery.com.
The deputy director of education (DDE) will serve as chairperson and the other two members of the team will be an education officer and a superintendent. "The inspection team will conduct random checks of schools, even in post-admission periods, to verify certificates and documents submitted by parents and approved by schools to ensure their genuineness and acceptability in terms of admission criteria," says the order. "Action will be taken by the DDE concerned against parents and schools who have violated the admission criteria or manipulated documents," it states.
As this process kicks-off, Mehrotra will be attending draw-of-lots for the girls' quota, but is out of the race for general category in 22 schools. In four others where he tried to apply, there was an upper-age limit.
"I've attended the draws for some schools but for girls there are a maximum of 10 seats and thousands of applicants. Many are now pinning their hopes on the second list-assuming there is one.
"I've applied to over 55 schools because I saw this coming," says another parent. He's in the worst place possible-his is the first child and a boy. Not quota for him. "I have applied even in schools beyond eight kilometers just in case things change," he says adding, "And it was easy to do. But the number of schools hasn't improved his chances. "I have no choice but to wait for the second round of draws."
One batch of parents is planning to file a court case. They are also hoping to meet LG Najeeb Jung, on whose order the existing nursery guidelines are based. "Parents born and brought up in Delhi are left out as preference of education is given to people who have transferred from outside. Many parents have applied to 15-20 schools-within an eight kilometre radius-but their names are not even shortlisted for the draw. Even candidates with 75 points have been waitlisted," says Sumit Vohra of admissionsnursery.com.
NOTIFICATION ISSUED AFTER Mr Sumit Vohra's Complaint Yesterday
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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All of you can do it together as we have many lawyers on forum , Request some parent lawyer to help.
See i don't mind giving existing parents number but her petition might be ready.
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Permalink Reply by Pramod on
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I also applied in 36 Schools. Hope, my single daughter will be selected in good school.. !
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LG is so busy these days, I don't think he is going to do anything for us...it seems that court case is the only hope
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out of 104 general open seats, Ahlcon International School has 78 candidates who have scored 90 or more than 90, 78 sibling cases in a year, more than 190 cases who have score 75 which means so many transfer cases. I don't know if it's the same for other schools as well, but this figures don't seem to be genuine
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Permalink Reply by Babita Rawat on
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Nidhi
We can wait for 2nd list only, in case some fake transfer cases caught by the school.
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DPS dwarka is also having 172 contenders against 130 general seats with more than 75 points, So there is no scope of childeren with 70 points at all.
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agreed even a friend of mine offered me to get a EWS certificate for Rs. 3000/-
Mr. Vohra: Please look into this also since the thorough check for the authentication of EWS certificate is a must
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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Bring out those culprits in open and prevent corruption in this admission process.
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Mr.Vohra's analysis confirms that there is a loop hole in this admission process. Hope LG will look into this matter as early as possible and come out with a good solution to wipe out the plight of the thousand of parents at disadvantage by the inter-state transfer. Admission policy should not be implemented in a hurly-burly manner. Our admission process for next year should be worked out immediately after this current admission process. Framework should be done well in advance. Further deep analysis, evaluation and consultation has to done well in advance for a transparent and smooth system.
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every year the same thing happens when everybody discusses to do framework in advance, however we still end up in havoc, my elder kid got admission in 2007 we had applied to every school in neighbourhood but ended up nowhere we wanted and had to take admission in a school which was not up to the mark and now in 2014 we have applied in so many schools for the younger kid and now too we don't have any option left but to admit the younger kid in the same school.
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