Private city schools allege autonomy compromised
20 Dec 2013 12:29 AM GMT
‘Giving weightage to any particular criteria is not the right move. It amounts to interfering with the autonomy of private schools. We are not running government schools and this move is interference in the functioning of private schools. We disagree with these guidelines and find these guidelines undemocratic and unfriendly,’ SR Pathak, executive member of Private School Association, told Millennium Post.
The Directorate of Education changed the point system for admissions on Wednesday. Under the new system 70, out of 100, points will be given to the neighbourhood criterion which has been fixed at six kilometres. For siblings studying in the same school, new applicants will get 20 points, if parents of the applicant child have been an alumni of the school 5 points will be granted. Five points will be given for inter-city transfer. The order passed by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung also scrapped the 20 per cent management quota in private unaided schools.
‘We are running private schools and we know how to take decisions, we are living in democratic world, we have right to take decisions. Three years back (in November 2010) a meeting regarding the implementation of the point system was held with the Directorate of Education. Parents were happy with the outcome of the meeting and the points system put in place. Why is the government changing it now?’ Pathak added.
‘I must say that the Lieutenant Governor should take the order back and review the guidelines,’ he said.
RC Jain, president of Delhi State Public Schools Management Association said: ‘We found the guidelines arbitrary and undemocratic since we are not getting any funding from the government.’
‘Sixty per cent of the Delhi evolved from the unauthorised areas, areas which are not planned and structured, therefore children belonging to these areas will be deprived of getting education in good schools, because it is impossible for them to have good schools with in the radius of six kilometer,’ he said. ‘No representation was considered and no call was made from the LG house before implementing these guidelines. We will summit our protest letter to LG on Friday to roll back the order. If nothing is done we will stop the admission process and protest outside LG house,’ he added.
However, Amit Singla, Directorate of Education, said: ‘LG has given the instructions in this regard and we will implement it.’
The Directorate of Education changed the point system for admissions on Wednesday. Under the new system 70, out of 100, points will be given to the neighbourhood criterion which has been fixed at six kilometres. For siblings studying in the same school, new applicants will get 20 points, if parents of the applicant child have been an alumni of the school 5 points will be granted. Five points will be given for inter-city transfer. The order passed by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung also scrapped the 20 per cent management quota in private unaided schools.
‘We are running private schools and we know how to take decisions, we are living in democratic world, we have right to take decisions. Three years back (in November 2010) a meeting regarding the implementation of the point system was held with the Directorate of Education. Parents were happy with the outcome of the meeting and the points system put in place. Why is the government changing it now?’ Pathak added.
‘I must say that the Lieutenant Governor should take the order back and review the guidelines,’ he said.
RC Jain, president of Delhi State Public Schools Management Association said: ‘We found the guidelines arbitrary and undemocratic since we are not getting any funding from the government.’
‘Sixty per cent of the Delhi evolved from the unauthorised areas, areas which are not planned and structured, therefore children belonging to these areas will be deprived of getting education in good schools, because it is impossible for them to have good schools with in the radius of six kilometer,’ he said. ‘No representation was considered and no call was made from the LG house before implementing these guidelines. We will summit our protest letter to LG on Friday to roll back the order. If nothing is done we will stop the admission process and protest outside LG house,’ he added.
However, Amit Singla, Directorate of Education, said: ‘LG has given the instructions in this regard and we will implement it.’
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