The Hindu : New Delhi News : Govt. seeks changes in court order on nursery admissions

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Govt. seeks changes in court order on nursery admissions

Staff Reporter

Court urged to fix three-and-a-half years as the cut-off age for such admissions

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court seeking modifications in its February 14 ruling that children who have completed three years on April 1 of the academic session are eligible for admissions to Nursery class.

The Government filed a petition in the Registry seeking modifications. It is likely to be listed for hearing this coming Monday.

The Government urged the Court to fix three-and-a-half years as the age for admissions to Nursery.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna had handed the February 14 judgment on a public interest litigation by a civil society group, Social Jurist, submitting that certain schools in Delhi were admitting below three-year-old students to Nursery class.

Counsel for the Government, K.T S. Tulsi, said his client was of the view that only those children should be admitted to Nursery who had completed three-and-a-half years on September 30 before the beginning of an academic session.

Schools here generally start selling forms for admissions to Nursery in September-October and the session starts in April next year.

Citing grounds for the modifications, Mr. Tulsi said kids of three years of age would not be able to cope with the task of having to walk to the bus stands and getting into the school bus.

He submitted that if they were admitted to school at the present prescribed age, it would have an adverse impact on their personality development.

The High Court had just assumed the eligible age for admissions to Nursery on the basis of Section 16 of the Delhi Education Act that says that a child who has attained the age of five years can be admitted to Class I or to its equivalent, the petition stated.

The Court assumed that the time taken for educating children at the pre-primary levels was two years, the petition said.

It submitted that there was no uniformity in the time taken for completing pre-primary education. Different schools followed different time frames, the petition added.

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