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Parents' body supports draw of lots for nursery admissions

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh has written to the chairman of the committee on nursery admissions appointed by the Delhi High Court, Ashok Ganguly, supporting the view that admissions to nursery schools should be through draw of lots.

Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh president V. Gupta pointed out that the interview of parents and the child for admission to nursery schools was a "mechanism to assess the financial and paying capacity of the parents and should be abolished".

Offering a solution, Mr. Gupta suggested that every private unaided school be allotted an area of at least five kilometres radius and the draw of lots should be done within the premises in the presence of members of parent association of the school as well as those parents aspiring to get admission.

The vacant seats in the school can be advertised in papers, after which a draw of lots could take place, wrote Mr. Gupta. Condemning "commercialisation" of education, Mr. Gupta pointed out that the unethical practice of interviewing for pre-nursery and nursery classes admissions had led to a mushrooming of coaching centres for tiny tots burdening them at a tender age. "They also charge a hefty sum from parents in the name of preparing the children for sure success in nursery or pre-nursery classes interview. Some of these coaching centres are clandestine conduits for admissions to pre-nursery or nursery classes of the so-called prestigious public schools," he stated.

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