Delhi govt gives in, schools get to set nursery criteria
The Delhi government on Wednesday gave the city private schools a free hand in deciding the criteria for nursery admissions and even agreed to their demand of compensation for reserving 25 per cent seats for the economically weaker section (EWS) students. The admission process would begin from January 1, 2011, and will have to be completed by March 31 next.
The schools were adamant on having the point-system devised by the A.K. Ganguly Committee, while the government wanted them to switch to lottery system. They were also pushing strongly against bearing the cost of providing education to EWS students under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. The final guidelines have, however, been agreed upon after several meetings and vociferous protests from schools.
Announcing the guidelines for nursery admissions for the coming session, Delhi education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said: “The schools are free to frame their own criteria for different categories in conformity with the guidelines but they will have to inform the directorate of education with the details of such criteria and publicise the same.” Further, 25 per cent of the total seats will have to be reserved for EWS students as per the RTE Act. “The government will give full compensation for EWS students to the schools which are not built on DDA land, others will get 10 per cent compensation,” the minister said, adding that educational qualification and income of parents would not be used as basis for admissions.
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