Nursery row drags on in HC
19 March 2014 5:33 AM IST
‘Renotify the petition for hearing with the pending petition on March 24,’ a bench comprising acting chief justice BD Ahmed and justice Siddharth Mridul said.
The High Court, which has already decided on some pleas, has been hearing several petitions by aggrieved parents against the Lieutenant Governor’s nursery admission guidelines 2013-14.
‘You are also expanding the thing,’ the bench said when senior advocate Maninder Singh, appearing for the parents, started advancing arguments in support of the plea seeking scrapping of points being awarded to kids under alumni and sibling categories.
As per the guidelines, out of 100, 70 points are given kids who reside within 0 to 8 kms of a school. Twenty points to a child whose sibling is studying in the same school and 5 points are earmarked for the kids whose parents were alumni.
Delhi government has recently done away with five points which were being awarded to kids under inter-state transfer category.
The fresh appeal, filed by parents including Sudhanshu Jain, has sought a direction to ‘restrain respondents and all unaided private schools from acting upon and implementing the Notification dated 18 December 2013..., in respect of open category students and set aside the same being violative of the rights of the Appellants as stated in the present Appeal.’
‘That most schools in the city..., all have maximum applications at 75+ points, given the extremely large number of siblings and alumni’s than the total number of general seats.
‘This effectively means that the children who do not have a sibling, or whose parents are not alumni, have outrightly no chance of getting into schools in the neighbourhood or even elsewhere this year...,’ the plea, filed through advocates Prashant Mehta and Himanshu Kapoor, said.
The appeal said the single judge bench did not conduct an effective hearing as the matter has now been fixed in July after issuance of notice to Directorate of Education (DoE).
‘Children of parents not having studied in a particular school in the neighbourhood, for having been living in some other place when they were born and sent to school by their parents, are left remediless and their possibility of gaining an admission into a school in their neighbourhood or even next door are reduced to negligible,’ the appeal said.
The High Court, which has already decided on some pleas, has been hearing several petitions by aggrieved parents against the Lieutenant Governor’s nursery admission guidelines 2013-14.
‘You are also expanding the thing,’ the bench said when senior advocate Maninder Singh, appearing for the parents, started advancing arguments in support of the plea seeking scrapping of points being awarded to kids under alumni and sibling categories.
As per the guidelines, out of 100, 70 points are given kids who reside within 0 to 8 kms of a school. Twenty points to a child whose sibling is studying in the same school and 5 points are earmarked for the kids whose parents were alumni.
Delhi government has recently done away with five points which were being awarded to kids under inter-state transfer category.
The fresh appeal, filed by parents including Sudhanshu Jain, has sought a direction to ‘restrain respondents and all unaided private schools from acting upon and implementing the Notification dated 18 December 2013..., in respect of open category students and set aside the same being violative of the rights of the Appellants as stated in the present Appeal.’
‘That most schools in the city..., all have maximum applications at 75+ points, given the extremely large number of siblings and alumni’s than the total number of general seats.
‘This effectively means that the children who do not have a sibling, or whose parents are not alumni, have outrightly no chance of getting into schools in the neighbourhood or even elsewhere this year...,’ the plea, filed through advocates Prashant Mehta and Himanshu Kapoor, said.
The appeal said the single judge bench did not conduct an effective hearing as the matter has now been fixed in July after issuance of notice to Directorate of Education (DoE).
‘Children of parents not having studied in a particular school in the neighbourhood, for having been living in some other place when they were born and sent to school by their parents, are left remediless and their possibility of gaining an admission into a school in their neighbourhood or even next door are reduced to negligible,’ the appeal said.
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