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Judgment reserved

Staff Reporter

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

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice M. K. Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna reserved the judgment on conclusion of argument by counsel for the Government and for the petitioner, NGO Social Jurist.

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

The Bench had delivered the February 14 judgment on public interest litigation by Social Jurist submitting that certain schools in Delhi were admitting below three-year-old children to Nursery.

Delhi Government counsel 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 the grounds for modification, Mr. Tulsi said children of three years 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 schools at the present prescribed age, it would have an adverse impact on their personality development.

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