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Clarify admission norms, Govt. told

NEW DELHI: Making no adverse comment on the core of the Delhi Government’s guidelines for admissions to pre-primary classes in private schools, the High Court on Wednesday asked the Government to re-phrase the guidelines to make them specific and clear so that it could pass an order.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice M. K. Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the Government to re-draft the guidelines and then submit them to the Court this coming Monday, the next date of hearing.

The Court issued the direction after reading the guidelines that the Government had filed in an affidavit format last week. The core of the guidelines is the autonomy given to the schools in the matter of admissions to pre-primary classes.

The Bench said several clauses of the affidavit required to be rewritten as they appeared vague.

The Bench in particular mentioned Clause 7 in the affidavit which said that “schools shall not conduct interview of or interact with the children seeking admissions”. “There should be no observation of children either in formal or informal conditions,” the clause added.

The Bench observed that Clause7 was silent on whether parents of the children would be interviewed or not.

Clause 24 in the affidavit talked of a monitoring cell in each district under the chairmanship of the Deputy Directorate (Education) empowered to look into complaints regarding the admissions and to inspect the schools regularly to ensure implementation of the guidelines.

Referring to it, the Bench said the Government was required to make it more specific about its formation.The Bench further asked the Government to define the extent of the autonomy it had agreed to grant to the schools in the matter of the admissions.

The Bench has been hearing an appeal by the parents of three nursery school children against a Single-Judge Bench judgment of the Court dismissing their petitions seeking a ban on interview of children and their parents.

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