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10 Capital schools flouted Ganguly guidelines: Report

Nirnimesh Kumar

NEW DELHI: A joint team of the Delhi Government's Education Department and the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) has informed the Delhi High Court that 10 schools flouted the recommendations of the Ashok Ganguly Committee for admissions to Nursery class in private unaided schools in the Capital.

The report submitted to a Division Bench comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday pointed out that Delhi Public School (DPS) Mathura Road and Vasant Kunj; Sri Ram School, Vasant Kunj; Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar; Vasant Valley, Vasant Kunj; Apeejay School, Sheikh Sarai; Ryan International, Rohini; G.D. Goenka Public School, Sector-B, Vasant Vihar; Springdales School, Pusa Road; and Raghubir Singh Junior Modern School, Humayun Road were found to have violated the guidelines for the admission during the inspection of their records.

The Ganguly Committee had evolved a "points system'' to be taken into account while considering applications for admissions to Nursery class.

The report said DPS, Mathura Road, had deleted "the occupation of parents'' factor carrying 20 marks and marked the applications on a scale of 80 marks only. It had also given a go by to the school specific criteria completely, which tilted the balance in favour of siblings of the alumni of the school.

DPS, Vasant Kunj, did not notify the seats for economically weaker section and G.D. Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj, marked the applications on a scale of 85 marks taking the alibi that it had notified the school specific criteria with siblings factor carrying 15 marks erroneously, the report said. Ryan International Public School, Rohini, awarded marks to the siblings on the basis of performance of their brothers or sisters studying in the school, the report said, adding that the performance of one child could not be a parameter to assess an applicant child.

Apeejay School, Sheikh Sarai, did not notify the occupation of parents as a school specific criterion. It categorised occupations as per the ranks and awarded marks on that basis: it awarded six marks to a housewife and nil to the mothers of two applicant kids, the report said.

Vasant Valley, Vasant Kunj, did not use the school specific criteria of 20 marks as recommended by the Committee and so marked the applications on a scale of 80 marks only, the report stated.

Sri Ram School, Vasant Vihar, considered the siblings criterion as a school specific one, which resulted in the alumni's siblings getting 30 marks out of 100, the report said, adding that the Committee had recommended 20 marks for this criterion.

Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar, used a questionnaire and the occupation of the parent's criterion carrying 10 points each, the report stated. Raghubir Singh Junior Modern School failed to devise a school specific formula. The principal interacted with the parents of the wards and awarded marks to them out of 20 marks fixed for this criterion, the report stated. Out of a total of 216 seats, the school filled 198 seats with the siblings of the alumni of the school, the report said.

The parameters followed by Springdales School, Pusa Road, for the school specific criterion was not objective.

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