ALL INDIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION
(AIPA)
Agarwal Bhawan G.T. Road, Tis Hazari, Delhi - 110054
To,
The Lt. Governor of Delhi
Raj Niwas, Delhi-110054
28.02.2014
Sub: DEO order dated 27.02.2014 on nursery
admissions suffers from serious flaws – needs immediate rectification
Sir,
We
are happy and welcome your decision to scrap 5 points for transfer cases in the
matter of admission of children in nursery classes in unaided recognised
private schools in Delhi. In fact, you should have similarly scrapped 20 points
for sibling and 5 points for alumni or at least cap should have been put on
them as was suggested by the Ganguly Committee in its IInd Report to the Delhi
High Court in the year 2007. The cap was suggested by the Ganguly Committee
keeping in mind the experience gained in the earlier year of 2006 that most of
the seats in a school were taken away by the siblings and alumni. I, in fact
had suggested to you this when you were reviewing the notification of
18.12.2013 but no attention was given.
The
present representation is being made to draw your attention to the fact that
DEO order dated 27.02.2014 on the face of it suffers from serious flaws that need
to be addressed at your end. Para 3 of the said order reads as:
“3.
If the school has conducted draw of lots for those applicants securing 70
points, that draw shall remain valid for the selected/confirmed candidates
only. Fresh draw of lots shall be held for remaining applicants having 70
points, including wait listed applicants and those applicants, who were earlier
securing 75 points because of ‘Inter State Transfer Case’ category.”
It
is submitted that the above said procedure would do great harm and injustice to
the candidates who have earlier secured 75 points because of ‘Inter State
Transfer Case’ and are now not being treated even as securing 70 points or
equal to those who had secured 70 points. This class of the candidates are at
least entitled to be considered equal to those who have secured 70 points and
the school has conducted draw of lot for the same and has drawn up the list of
selected candidates. Unfortunately, DEO order has now unjustly pushed them down
even below the candidates securing 70 points who have already gone for draw of
lot. In my humble submission, this is impermissible in law.
It
is submitted that the entire list of candidates securing 70 points including
those who had earlier secured 75 points because of ‘Inter State Transfer Case’
is required to be redrawn and fresh draw of lots must take place of all of them
at one time. There is no point differentiating them in any manner. In other
words, the candidates who earlier secured 75 points because of ‘Inter State
Transfer Case’ cannot be put to disadvantage merely because a school has
already held a draw of lots in regard to the candidates who had secured 70
points. It is bound to creep into great injustice to an innocent section of
candidates.
It
is, therefore, requested to kindly look into this matter on urgent basis and do
necessary rectifications in the DEO order dated 27.02.2014.
With regards,
Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
National President, AIPA
M-09811101923
2 comments:
Sir kindly look in the matter for those children who are living near the school .
A lot of children are not able to get admission because of 8 kms radius. Sir pls tell me what about children living nearby not getting admissions
because of 0-8 kms radius as neighbourhood.
kindly look into this matter also.
Subject: Possible prejudice by DOE in implementation of Hon'ble Delhi HC ruling for class-1 admission in NCT of Delhi.
Dear Sir, Our kids were offered admission to class 1 in Mother's International School, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi. As all three of us have recently joined our respective institutes and relocated to Delhi from other states and countries, our kids scored 75 points, which included 70 points for the neighbourhood and 5 points for interstate transfer. However, due to recent ruling by Hon'ble HC of Delhi, DOE has passed an order by which the school has considered earlier results of draw of lots including interstate transfer points as null and void.
Grant of 5 interstate transfer points was a debatable topic as all the kids, local or transfer cases, entering school system at nursery class are on par. However, DOE seems to be causing prejudice to interstate transfer students by implementing this ruling for class-1 also. The reason being if a local student fails to secure admission to class-1 in their school of choice they can still continue in the schools they studied for past three years, while interstate transfer kids cannot continue education if they fail to secure admission to class-1 in NCR schools. This seems to violate basic principle of RTE for interstate transfer kids. On behalf of the group of parents, I request you to kindly look into this matter and stop this prejudice from happening.
Thank You.
Chaya Ebite-Birajdar
chaya.ebite@gmail.com
+919011955513
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