To
The Lt. Governor of Delhi
Raj Niwas, Raj Niwas Marg
New Delhi
17.10.2014
Subject: Suggestions for
Nursery Admission Criteria for 2015-16 for unaided private schools in Delhi
Respected sir,
At the outset, we are
grateful to you, Sir, for bringing the nursery admission criteria by December
2013 notification for the year 2014-15 which was not only child centric but
also a long way measure to check commercialization of education in unaided
private schools. We have no doubt in
saying that the same has done justice to the children who were always left out earlier
even from consideration for admission due to the prevalence of anti-child,
arbitrary and discriminatory admission
criteria formulated by the unaided private schools.
We understand that you are in
the process of revising the present criteria for the academic session 2015-16.
We also understand that the school management lobby is putting lot of pressure
on you to grant them 20% management quota in the admission. This quota has always been misused by the
schools and it is a major source of corruption in admission to
private schools. In any case, the same is discriminatory, arbitrary, against
public interest and opposed to public policy and you had rightly abolished the
same in the 2014-15 admission criteria. We therefore demand and expect that
there will be no management quota in the forthcoming nursery admission criteria
2015-16 also.
It is respectfully submitted
that any criteria, other than the neighbourhood criteria and draw of lots would be arbitrary and discriminatory
and is not acceptable. Such a criteria would also be not child centric and
against the various judicial pronouncements. It is well known fact that these
schools have been abusing their autonomy purely for commercial interests.
It is also submitted that the
past experience also reveals that the criteria solely based on neighbourhood and
draw of lots principles would be in the spirit of the provisions of Right of
Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 as well as in tune with the
orders having been passed by the honourable Delhi High Court from time to time
on this issue. Here, I would like to draw your kind attention to an order of
2005 passed by honourable Delhi High Court observing that the admission criteria should be uniform, transparent and to
curb the discretion of the school management in the matter of admission.
We therefore request you to
kindly consider the above submissions while deciding the nursery
admission criteria for the year 2015-16.
With regards,
Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
National President, AIPA
M-0981110192
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