Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2025-26
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Times Of India | Nursery admissions: Wait for vacancies, try NCR schools Mr Vohra And Principals Give Suggestions For No Admission Cases | AN.com Parents Plight who applied in More than 20-25 schools
NEW DELHI: Do not despair if your child has not secured a nursery seat yet. Schools are likely to announce second lists - albeit with fewer seats - against vacancies.
Children who got through multiple schools will have to surrender all but one of their seats. These vacancies will then become available to candidates who have been unsuccessful in the first round.
"The chances are bright that we will have a second list. Parents should book a seat wherever they get through first and then change to the school of their choice if they get lucky in the second list," said LV Sehgal, principal, Bal Bharati School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg.
Sumit Vohra, who runs an online portal on nursery admissions, said, "Parents should keep an eye on the second list and if that does not work, many schools in the NCR have vacancies".Continuing in the playschool is also an option for children who could not get a seat in a formal school at the age of three. Most playschools run classes from pre-nursery to KG. So, a child can pursue nursery there and shift to a proper school in KG. The only hitch is that the number of seats in KG is generally small.Parents residing in east and south Delhi can also look for schools in parts of the NCR. Noida has many upcoming schools which welcome parents with easier admission norms. Gurgaon, too, has new progressive schools which step up their classes with every new batch.
"Our admission process started in October-November and was already closed. But we had kept aside around 50 seats for later as we had seen a huge demand among Delhi parents last year. Admissions to these seats will open in the coming days after the process in Delhi settles down," said Sarita Madhok, principal of Noida's Mayoor School, which is affiliated to Mayo College.
"After parents register, we will have a short informal interaction with them. We generally look for parental profile. We also have our buses plying to south Delhi," she added.
Advocate and Social Jurist founder Ashok Aggarwal said, "All government schools should be upgraded to the level of Central schools. This will deal with the paucity of schools."
Nursery of woes for parents in lurch
Neha Pushkarna, TNN | Feb 3, 2012, 01.49AM IST
NEW DELHI: Securing a nursery seat in the city is a matter of good fortune. How else will you explain the ordeal of Sanjiv Bhardwaj, whose son couldn't get admission in spite of applying at 27 schools? The Saket resident took a fortnight off from work in January to apply at every school in the neighbourhood and away.
"All that seems to have come to naught," said a visibly dejected Bhardwaj. "I had applied in so many schools of south Delhi but there is no option left for the common man in this city. I guess I will have to move out to send my child to school."
Bhardwaj works as a telecom professional in a multinational company. He had turned down an offer to work in Europe to stay in the city he grew up in. "I should have gone abroad. At least my son would have gone to school," he said.
He blames the system for his son sitting out of school. "There is no uniform point system in Delhi schools. I was banking on the neighbourhood points. But alumni and sibling cases took away the pie. No wonder a child from Noida could get through a south Delhi school but my son couldn't," he said.
He hadn't really weighed his options till Thursday evening. "My mind is a blank. I don't want to keep sending my child to the playschool. And will schools have enough seats in KG next year when my son turns four?" he wondered.
Bhardwaj is not alone. The Kalras of GK-I applied in 23 schools but their son could not get through any. "We scored up to 40 points for neighbourhood as well as first child. But most schools were admitting students at 70 or more points. The whole neighbourhood concept is a farce. I have one more year to take a chance. We both are lawyers and can afford a good school for our child. So a government school is completely out of the question," said Mahua Kalra, the mother. The Kalras are now waiting for the second list.
Parents seeking admission for their first child are miffed at schools giving preference to alumni and sibling cases. Sanjay Kumar Jha of Sarita Vihar couldn't make use of the privileges. He applied in the same school where his daughter studies, but in vain.
"There was a draw of lots in which my son did not succeed. I feel so disturbed now. I may have to send him to a nearby school though it's not too good," Jha said. Not all are gloomy, though. Anjali Kapoor had been waiting for results of the 22 schools she had applied to. Only one invited her son for admission but on the payment of an extra, unaccounted Rs 20,000. "Finally, one more school has selected my son. I feel ecstatic," she said.
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Permalink Reply by Shalini Das on
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we also applied in 30 schools S delhi. SOme schools I was noteven interested as I felt they are not of my choice, bt still filled , however we were not selected in any schools. Children are majorly selected thr neighborhood, sibling etc, but even though the schools are very much close to our house.. I am feeling too depressed on the results thinking how come we were so unlucky this much..we both are well qualified and working with reputed companies..my husband thinking to shift to noida , but it means we hv to lot many adjustments.. though we can carry one with play school whih is indeed very good.but next yr would be more difficult... i m in fix..
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This is true, getting a nursery seat in S delhi is tougher than getting an IIT seat. We had applied in 20 schools in S delhi only but got selected in only 3 schools. Which are not very close to our residence, so wondering how this point system works. Some schools ask for transfereable jobs some ask for no of times you have been transferred. The cut off is 70 points for draw. It makes impossible for a first generation in delhi people to get thru this process. Our guidelines needs to be re-looked. The whole process is very crazy. Being a parent of single child becomes crime. I empathasis with all parents who didnt get through in any school. This is really sad state of affairs.
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Permalink Reply by Anju arora on
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Schools shud hv a uniform point system, makes sense.
I presume this point system has been adopted from America, but why cant india adopt the entire process.... why only a part of it. America's point system clearly focuses on the neighbourhood.... that means major points are alloted to this criteria. Child is eligible for admission only in the nearby schools....
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really it is a pity that many of us who filled forms for more than 20 schools could not get selected anywhere........ and our fault is that our child is normal..... he/she doesn't have and elder sibling....we both the parents are alive and living together....and are working hard and earning just enough to support our family with decent earnings and paying the required taxes....
and the transferable/tranferred jobs have been made such an twist in the tale like in a suspense thriller...who is covered in it and who not ...nobody knows.....
and our govt and DOE sleep over all this....
Wonder if these factors supposed to be good for a child are turning negative points for his education.....
and also another important point that we did not study in same delhi schools so our children can't study there....
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i agree. our fault is that neither we studied the required school, nor we have elder child studying there.. then living together is also not good with this situation as single parents are getting benefitted more,..our only child has to face a lot that too at this early stage...
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I also applied in 15 schools this year. But no success. Not even a single school shortlisted my son. The school which is just 1 km away from my residence did not even shortlisted by child. Forget about selection. The only reason for not getting select is that I do not secured points for alumni / sibling / single parent / transfer. Only securing points for distance could not fetch us the admission.
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Last year also I applied in 21 schools for Nursery admission. I don't know where to go ? I can't send him to NCR's schools, those are too far away from my residence. I was even ready to waste his one acedamic year and again applied for nursery to try my luck this year too. I just don't understand why I am so unlucky......
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I know, the systems have been improved in comparision to last year. SOme schools have changed a bit in their point system. The credit goes to Mr SUMIT VOHRA, our FOUNDER of this site... Heritage school did not give any point to Alumni, hence the people live in neighbourhood area atleast were shortlisted by the schools. Modern school has reserved a % of seats for g. catergory other than alumni and sibling. That is the great achievement. Thanks to Mr Sumit Vohra ji. All the parents should support him, so that the whole system can be changed
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Dear Arti, Heritage started only 1998. They need to have alumni to give that points!!!
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Sorry I did'nt know this..So finally no school follows the DOE guidelines.
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:) Unfortunately..Yes..! The point system was made to provide equal chance every kid irrespective of the background. However this alumni criteria does not give equality!
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May be all parents remember the PROTEST MARCH, which we did last year in front of DOE office. Just because of the efforts of Mr SUmit VOhra, we could meet the DOE Director over there and we submitted a memorandum of complaints against schools not following the DOE guidelines and the Director promised us to take care of all the point in next year. BUT OUR HARD LUCK is that the DIRECTOR has been changed this year. SO we can not go and ask him what action has been taken by you.. .. I request Sumit ji to again submit a Memorandum to the DOE Director to take action against the schools not following the DOE guidelines for admission.
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