New Delhi: In a bid to make the nursery admissions clear,
transparent and parents friendly, the Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta has
demanded that the Delhi government pass legislation for the same. He has said
that the absence of any such law, lakhs
of children belonging to the underprivileged section of the society are being
denied their right to admission into private schools.
While accusing the Delhi government of
convoluting with the owners of private school, he said that in November 2015
they brought a bill to stop the screening process conducted by the school,
which never became a law. This was done to ensure that the schools that have
procured land from the government at cheap rates continue to collect donations
from parents.
The government has been seen supporting the
coterie of private school owners on a number of issues including nursery
admissions, charging exorbitant school fees and exploiting their workers by
paying them lower salaries. This is the reason that the bill to regularize
nursery admission has not been made into a law yet.
Till the time a strong
legislation is not brought in, the private school owners would keep the
children from economically vulnerable sections of the society out on some
pretext or the other. The private schools are not legally bound by the orders
passed by the government in the absence of legislation, he further said.
The admissions into
nursery would begin from Jan 2, 2017, yet the Education Directorate of the
Delhi government has failed to issue any guidelines for admission of the
children from BPL families and other economically weaker sections. The Right to
Education Act, 2009 provides reservation of at least 25 per cent of the seats
in private schools at the entry level for children aged 6 years or less from
socially disadvantaged and economically weaker sections (EWS) in the
neighbourhood.
In the majority of the cases, the private
school owners, who have made a business out of education, have formulated their
own rules of admission, thus creating more hurdles for students from the
reserved category to get admission and opening new ways to extract donations
from parents.
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