NEW DELHI: Pulling up the Delhi Government, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for allowing unauthorised schools in the Capital to play with the careers of the children studying there, the Delhi High Court on Friday asked them to frame a scheme for regularising and regulating these unregistered institutions.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice H. R. Malhotra directed the Government, the MCD and the DDA to discuss the matter and inform it of the scheme for regularising and regulating these unapproved schools on February 13.

The MCD had at the last hearing of the case admitted before the Court that it had so far identified as many as 2,000 unauthorised schools across the Capital.

Counsel for the MCD submitted that the schools that were being run in violation of the rules would be shut.

The Court passed the directions while hearing public interest litigation by a voluntary organisation, Social Jurist, alleging that there were more than 10,000 unauthorised schools in the city.

Ashok Aggarwal, counsel for the petitioner, urged the Court to issue directions to the MCD to regulate such schools as they were playing havoc with the careers of students taking education there.

The Court has set up a three-member committee comprising the Director of Education of the Delhi Government, Mr. Aggarwal and the Deputy Director of the DDA to look into the state of affairs in these schools.

The Committee in its report submitted to the Court said that it had visited ten of the unrecognised schools and found that they did not have even the basic facilities.

The quality of education in these schools was very poor as the teacher-student ratio was not as per the requirement.

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