EAST DELHI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION-RUN SCHOOL TURNS OUT DISABLED GIRL STUDENT

East Delhi Municipal Corporation run school at Kalyanpuri turns out 11 years old Shalu, a mentally retarded student, from the school illegally and in violation of RTE Act, 2009. The Mother of Shalu, has approached Advocate Ashok Agarwal for taking up the cause of Kumari Shalu.

DELHI GOVT DOUBLE-SHIFT SCHOOL DECISION IS A FRAUD ON CHILDREN

Congress ruled Delhi Government decision to allow unaided private schools of Delhi to run double-shift schools is a big fraud being played by it on the children of this Capital City of India. Such a decision is only in favor of the Greedy Private Schools Owners. All India Parents Association (AIPA) is totally opposed to this decision. NCERT Expert Committee on RTE Act, 2009 headed by Advocate Ashok Agarwal as back as on 03.03.2010 had recommended that all double shift schools would need to be forthwith converted to single shift schools, with the teacher pupil ratios as specified in the Schedule to the RTE Act, 2009.

Vote bank politics stretches its tentacles to school-education

ALL INDIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION (AIPA) PRESS-RELEASE 04.07.2013 A news report which appeared in a leading daily toady reads that the Delhi government is planning to extend “relaxations” in the criteria for eligibility in admission to various streams of Class XII for the benefit of minorities and OBCs. Under the proposed scheme, students belonging to these categories shall be able to avail of a relaxation of up to one grade-point in one of the subjects. The news report further reads that such a relaxation is already available to children belonging to SC/ST and Kashmiri migrant communities. However, the larger question is: what is the logic behind depriving the entire student community of its rights to choose its own fields of interest and then extending peace-meal tokens of charity to select communities, thereby adding discrimination to injustice? Firstly, is it a reasonable assumption that a child who does not seem to be showing signs of becoming a very good doctor, what he wants to be, would automatically have seeds of becoming a good accountant and an even better public administrator, what he never wanted to be? Should he not rather be left free to pursue his interest and struggle out his own way to become a good doctor? It seems that the government is hell-bent upon denying the streams of their own choice, particularly Sciences and Commerce to the vast majority of students studying in government schools, leaving them with no choice but to turn to private schools. Moreover, in view of the upcoming Assembly elections, the government has begun to see even school-education and even choices so fundamental as the choice of career, as means to cater to its vote-banks, by dividing students into categories such as SC, ST, OBC, minority, J & K migrant and so on. While so many categories have been found fit to be given relaxations, why not the entire student community? All India Parents Association demands greater autonomy to students across all strata and sections of society in making their career-choices through considerable relaxations in archaic stream-admission criteria, without any discrimination on grounds of caste, religion, region etc. ASHOK AGARWAL, ADVOCATE National President, AIPA M: 9811101923

DE-RECOGNITION OF UNAIDED SCHOOL AFFECTS 420 STUDENTS

Parents and students of Geeta Ashram Vidya Mandir through Advocate Ashok Agarwal are shortly moving a petition in Hon'ble Delhi High Court seeking direction against the Director of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi to forthwith withdraw its order of de-recognition of the school resulting in mid-session closure of the school affecting 420 students. DOE offer of admission of the students in Government School is unacceptable by the parents and the students.

IT IS ALL CORRUPTION

Can you expect quality education from the so called qualified teachers who have obtained all degrees/diplomas without actually attending the courses? Once out of curiosity, I asked one of my diploma holder clients as to where is the Bhoj University from where you have done special education course. The answer was "I don't know".

Constitution right to free and quality education to every child is more a dead letter.

Each facility matters in a school. Children strength will increase with the increase of facilities in the school. Top of all, if good quality education is taking place in the school, children will stay in school despite lack of facilities. Unfortunately, in Government-run schools, neither facilities are available nor quality education is taking place. That is a main reason for high dropout rates and increase in number of child labor. This is also a reason that forces parents to prefer unaided private schools and subject themselves to exploitation at the hands of such private schools. The Constitution right to free and quality education to every child is more a dead letter.

Constitutional right to a dignified life has no meaning for millions of people

Poor father had only 20 rupees with him when he was supposed to take this morning his 17 years old ailing daughter to Maharaja Agarsen Hospital, Punjabi Bagh from his residence at Pandev Nagar, East-Delhi (one side auto fare is R.170/-). A social worker came to their aid. This patient is being treated free in the Hospital under ews category. What has been seen in many cases is that even when the medical treatment is free, poor patients don’t have money for conveyance to go to the hospital and back to home. Constitutional right to a dignified life has no meaning for millions of people of our country.