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
