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High Court lowers freeship quota to 15%

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Granting relief to private schools here in the Capital, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said they were now obliged to earmark only 15 per cent of their total seats for students belonging to the economically weaker sections under the free-ship scheme. The scheme is in lieu of grant of land by the Delhi Development Authority for their school buildings at below market prices.

At present these schools are obliged to keep aside 20 per cent of the seats for these students under the scheme.

The Delhi Government has over the years allotted plots to schools in different parts of the city on condition that they will provide free education to students who hail from the economically lower strata of society. At present there are 381such schools.

In an interim order, a Division Bench comprising Justice T. S. Thakur and Justice S. N. Aggarwal said the direction would come into effect from the 2008-2009 academic year.

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