The Directorate of Education (DoE) had recently issued its first set of guidelines for nursery admissions in private schools operating under it, except for these 285 schools, stating that a separate set of guidelines will be issued for them shortly.
Private schools operating on the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) land might lose their lease, if they violate the nursery admission guidelines mentioned in their land allotment agreement, the Delhi government warned on Tuesday. The announcement came after a school issued separate guidelines and schedule for admissions.
Mount Caramel School in south-west Delhi’s Dwarka area, one of the 285 schools operating on DDA land, has uploaded its own set of guidelines for nursery admissions on its website. The school has mentioned the number of seats available under different criteria — sibling, alumni, Christian and economically weaker sections, among others — in the guidelines.
Atishi Marlena, advisor to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, said: “The Delhi government will issue a show cause notice to the school on Wednesday. If they do not follow government guidelines even after that, then we have two options — to withdraw their recognition or to write to DDA for cancellation of their lease.”
The Directorate of Education (DoE) had recently issued its first set of guidelines for nursery admissions in private schools operating under it, except for these 285 schools, stating that a separate set of guidelines will be issued for them shortly.
These 285 schools have been at loggerheads with the Delhi government since Deputy CM and Education Minister Sisodia directed them to follow the “neighbourhood” criterion, with minimum distance being 1km. Some even announced that they will resort to legal recourse, if necessary.
According to Sumit Vohra of the admissionsnursery.com, if these schools release separate guidelines like this, it will create further confusion among parents. “How can these schools start admission or give schedule when separate guidelines for them are still to come from the DoE? This is a violation of DoE’s notification. They should be directed to remove the guidelines from their websites,” he said.
Nursery admissions for the upcoming session are set to begin from January 2, 2017.
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