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High Court orders expert panel on kids' admission

Staff Reporter

Centre, Delhi Govt. to suggest names for five-member committee

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has ordered setting up of a committee of experts to study and suggest a solution to the practice of interviewing children and their parents for admissions to nursery and pre-primary classes here.

A Division Bench comprising Justice B.A Khan and Justice Madan B. Lokur directed the Union Government, the Delhi Government, the appellants in the matter and the Action Committee of Recognised Unaided Schools to suggest names of experts to constitute a five-member committee.

The Bench said that after receiving the names of experts, it would constitute the committee and thereafter the panel would examine all the relevant matters connected with the issue and submit a report to the Court. Then the Court would examine the whole gamut of the issue pending before it. The Court had last year sought the assistance of the Attorney-General of India, Milon Banerjee, and people in general to decide the appeal in the matter seeking a ban on interviewing children and their parents for admissions to nursery and pre-primary classes.

Counsel for the appellants, Ashok Agarwal, submitted that the practice of interviewing these children and their parents for admissions to the two classes was against human rights as well as violative of Article 14, 21 and 21A of the Constitution.

The Bench later posted the matter on November 8.

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