Several private schools in the national Capital have approached the Directorate of Education (DoE) urging it to reconsider the move of scrapping the management quota for nursery admissions, even as a few schools have started amending their criteria.
Alleging that the move was a “threat to school’s autonomy”, the Action Committee for Unaided Recognised Public Schools (ACURPS), an umbrella body of
Delhi’s private and unaided school associations, has submitted a representation to DoE in this regard.
“We have submitted a representation to DoE urging them to reconsider the decision and withdraw the notification in this regard. The major issue here is not with the
management quota but the arbitrary scrapping of it which is an attack on schools’ autonomy granted to us by Constitution,” a member of the committee said.
On the other hand, some schools have started toeing the line and have updated their admission criteria. Queens’ Valley School, Dwarka which had earlier reserved 20 per cent seats under the management quota, has now merged the seats under general category.
Similarly, Mount Abu School, Rohini, which had earlier divided the general category seats as — 20 per cent sibling quota, 20 per cent management quota and 35 per cent open seats, has now removed all criterion.
Scrapping 32 per cent management quota, Sachdeva School, has updated its criteria in its three branches in Pitampura, Rohini and Sachdeva Global School, Dwarka. PP International School, Pitampura has also followed the same move.