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“Nursery guidelines violates RTE Act”

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has issued a notice to the Delhi Government Principal Secretary (Education) to re-examine the recent order regarding nursery admissions in schools as it found the order violating the Right to Education Act. The Commission has also sent a copy of the notice to the Delhi High Court Chief Justice.

The notice asked that the order containing guidelines for admission of children in pre-primary classes and class I in unaided schools and schools in the specified categories be re-examined on “top priority” basis.

It further said that the Delhi Government had used “its own interpretation” of the guidelines laid down by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in the RTE Act 2009 that prohibits any screening procedure for carrying out school admissions.

DCPCR agreed that the Delhi Government had followed prescribed guidelines for random selection of 25 per cent seats for children from economically weaker sections, but had violated the provisions of RTE while dealing with remaining 75 per cent seats in un-aided and specified category schools.  

The Commission further said that the liberty given to schools to formulate their respective admission policy was equivalent to the “Government…not having any control over admission policies of the respective schools” as no deadline was specified for the schools to submit the policy to the Directorate of Education. Further, DCPCR said that the mention of “unique background, ethos and objectives of the schools in the Delhi Government's order would create “categorisations of the applicants on the same basis that can include siblings, transfer case, single parent and alumni, which is nothing but introduction of the so called point system”.

Having dealt with a large number of cases of denial of admissions to the children, DCPCR said it had found the point system applied in some of the schools highly discriminatory, both prior and subsequent to the enforcement of RTE Act.

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