Delhi government told the court that during an analysis of admission data of over 50 leading schools in Delhi, it was found that approximately 46 per cent of open seats were claimed under the inter-state transfer category and 2.4 per cent of the applications were from the National Capital Region.
The government also submitted that on scrutiny of the 1,520 applications, in which inter-state transfer was claimed, over 800 were found not to be genuine. The petition, filed through advocates Prashant Mehta and Himanshu Kapoor, was disposed of by the court which said it be treated as a representation before Delhi government, which has to expeditiously deal with it by giving a hearing to the petitioner.
The Department of Education on Wednesday informed justice Manmohan that it carried out a survey in 58 leading private schools in the city and found massive misuse of the practice of awarding transfer points.
On Tuesday the High Court came down heavily on the city government for awarding five additional points for interstate transfer category and sought logic behind it and said the practice ‘is open to malpractices’.
‘What is the logic behind these five points? Why should one get an additional point for getting transferred here? We don’t see any logic in this. It is open to malpractices, ‘ said the bench of acting chief justice BD Ahmed and justice Siddharth Mridul on the day the petition was filed.
The court on Tuesday had sought a response from Najeeb Jung by Friday but clarified that it would limit the scope of the case to inter-state transfer quota only. The complaint arose when residents of Delhi moved the court and complained that the quota was unfair to them as their children were deprived of five points for open seats.
The plea said that their wards had little chance over children from inter-state transfer cases as they get a five-point head start in the race for admissions.
Calculate seats for disabled kids: HC to government
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government to calculate the number of seats available for seven categories of disabled kids in nursery admissions, after implementing the statutory three per cent quota, in the total intake by private unaided schools here.
‘To illustrate if the total intake of seats for a given year is in the range of 1000 the disability quota would be 3 per cent i.e. 30 seats, which would, for each of the seven subcategories work out to 4 seats,’ a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and RV Easwar said.
The city government was also asked to find out which schools can cater to which type of disability in order to facilitate a broad scheme under which seats can be earmarked based upon the facilities in an institute.
‘The Government of NCT should indicate which schools are geared up to cater to the concerned disability, i.e. sight disability, hearing impairment, locomotive disability, blindness, etc.
‘This is in order to facilitate a broad scheme whereby the seats are specifically earmarked having regard to the facilities in that school so that the highest concentration of students to be admitted from such category are admitted to the concerned institutions,’ the court said.
The government also submitted that on scrutiny of the 1,520 applications, in which inter-state transfer was claimed, over 800 were found not to be genuine. The petition, filed through advocates Prashant Mehta and Himanshu Kapoor, was disposed of by the court which said it be treated as a representation before Delhi government, which has to expeditiously deal with it by giving a hearing to the petitioner.
The Department of Education on Wednesday informed justice Manmohan that it carried out a survey in 58 leading private schools in the city and found massive misuse of the practice of awarding transfer points.
On Tuesday the High Court came down heavily on the city government for awarding five additional points for interstate transfer category and sought logic behind it and said the practice ‘is open to malpractices’.
‘What is the logic behind these five points? Why should one get an additional point for getting transferred here? We don’t see any logic in this. It is open to malpractices, ‘ said the bench of acting chief justice BD Ahmed and justice Siddharth Mridul on the day the petition was filed.
The court on Tuesday had sought a response from Najeeb Jung by Friday but clarified that it would limit the scope of the case to inter-state transfer quota only. The complaint arose when residents of Delhi moved the court and complained that the quota was unfair to them as their children were deprived of five points for open seats.
The plea said that their wards had little chance over children from inter-state transfer cases as they get a five-point head start in the race for admissions.
Calculate seats for disabled kids: HC to government
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government to calculate the number of seats available for seven categories of disabled kids in nursery admissions, after implementing the statutory three per cent quota, in the total intake by private unaided schools here.
‘To illustrate if the total intake of seats for a given year is in the range of 1000 the disability quota would be 3 per cent i.e. 30 seats, which would, for each of the seven subcategories work out to 4 seats,’ a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and RV Easwar said.
The city government was also asked to find out which schools can cater to which type of disability in order to facilitate a broad scheme under which seats can be earmarked based upon the facilities in an institute.
‘The Government of NCT should indicate which schools are geared up to cater to the concerned disability, i.e. sight disability, hearing impairment, locomotive disability, blindness, etc.
‘This is in order to facilitate a broad scheme whereby the seats are specifically earmarked having regard to the facilities in that school so that the highest concentration of students to be admitted from such category are admitted to the concerned institutions,’ the court said.