GOVT FAILS TO FRAME GUIDELINES FOR PRE SCHOOLS

To, 15.01.2010
The Director of Education,
Govt. of NCT of Delhi,
Old Secretariat Building,
Civil Lines, Delhi-110054,

Sub: - Govt. fails to frame guidelines for pre-schools

Dear Sir,

Your kind attention is drawn to Clause 21 of Recognized Schools (Admission Procedure for Pre-primary Class) Order, 2007 in terms of which you were required to frame guidelines for pre-schools which has not been done so far.


The Clause 21 of the said Order is being reproduced as under:-

“There shall be one year of pre-primary class in every school. A class of one year duration preceding this called pre-school may be set-up as a neighbouring pre-school and the Education Department shall frame the guidelines in this regard, in consultant with experts. The school which are already running pre-school class may continue to do so subject to the following conditions:-

(a) Every child admitted to pre-school shall be of minimum three years by 31st March of the year in which admission is being sought;

(b) The schools shall frame their own guidelines for admission to pre-school class and the same criteria as for admission to the pre-primary schools are framed;

(c) Any such school which has a pre-school class from the session commencing in April 2008, shall move those students to the pre-primary class for the session commencing in April 2009. after that, the final norms to be notified for the pre-school class shall be followed.”


You may appreciate that in the letters and spirit of the various Orders of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court, Ashok Ganguly Committee Report and your above referred Order of 2007, all the recognized private schools will have only one year of pre-primary class and the practice of having more than one year of pre-primary classes are required to be stopped.


Nearly, three years of the said Order have gone but the Government has not framed the guidelines for pre-schools, resulting in continuation of unfair, exploitative and anti-child practice of formal schools having more than one year of pre-primary classes in the school.


You are, therefore, requested to kindly frame the guidelines in regard to pre-schools in terms of Clause 21 of the aforesaid Orderof 2007 and to stop the practice of schools having more than one year of pre-primary classes in their formal schools at the earliest.


With regards,


Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
Advisor, Social Jurist
(M) 9811101923