New Delhi: As the nursery
admission has been started in the capital and again the issue has been raised
as many irregularities during following the norms for the same. However it is
not the new thing for this year, as witnessed every year in the context.
According to the Leader
of Opposition in Delhi Vidhan Sabha, Vijender Gupta, “Private schools have
started nursery admissions by following arbitrary set of their own criteria. If
such arbitrariness of private schools continues, admission of children of
economically weaker parents will be in doldrums. Shri Gupta has demanded that
Govt. must intervene immediately so that children from economically weaker
sections are able to get admission in private schools.”
He said that majority
of large private schools have started admission process have preferred for
sibling and alumni criteria instead of neighborhood criteria. This has given a
serious jolt to all parents who want admission of their wards in schools near
their homes based on neighborhood criteria as laid down by the High Court and
the Delhi Govt. There is no chance of seats remaining vacant in schools which
have started admission by adopting sibling and alumni criteria. Admission of
wards from economically weaker sections in such schools will become difficult.
Gupta said that the
Govt. deliberately slept for a year and has failed to make law for transparent,
honest and fair admission process. Therefore, all large schools have started
admission for the year 2017-2018 academic year by adopting their own arbitrary criteria. There is considerable
scope for corruption in this process. The parents, with pockets full of notes are
getting admission easily for their wards in schools of their choice, thereby
denying the benefit of law on right to education.
Gupta further said that
last date for depositing completed application forms for admission in schools
is 23rdJanuary. One week of January already having gone, Govt. is still to
issue any guidelines for admission to 298 private schools opened on land
allotted at concessional rates. As per Govt. Regulations, it is compulsory to
reserve 25% seats for children belonging to economically weaker sections in
such schools.
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