Most of the parents seeking nursery admission for their wards are in a state of confusion amid rising tension between the Delhi government and 298 private schools, built on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) land. The recent High Court's decision of allowing these schools to accept applications for nursery admission both under state government's distance criteria and school's own parameters has even added to their confusion.
Most of the parents seeking nursery admission for their wards are in a state of confusion amid rising tension between the Delhi government and 298 private schools, built on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) land. The recent High Court's decision of allowing these schools to accept applications for nursery admission both under state government's distance criteria and school's own parameters has even added to their confusion.
"Thousands of parents have already filled nursery forms for several schools and now if the schools will demand filling forms afresh, it will be a difficult situation for us as parents," says Vijay Sharma, a resident of Vasant Kunj.
On Friday, the Delhi High court allowed 298 private schools, built on DDA land to upload their own admissions criteria and issue forms that will include the "distance from the school" where parents will have to mark whether their residence is less than 3 km, 3-6 km or over 6 km from the school.
The move came after petitions challenging the Delhi government's notification last week which made it compulsory for these 298 schools to accept admission forms based only on the distance criteria, reached the court. The court will now hear the matter further on January 19. In the interim, the bench has allowed schools to continue to the application process.
"This is really annoying for parents as most of us had already shortlisted the schools but now will apply to more schools but don't know what will happen finally," said Ravi Shukla, another parent on a social networking site.
However, some parents are mulling over filling forms after January 19th, after the court's final hearing on the guidelines. "It will be better to fill a form after January 19th now. There is no point of filling forms again and again," Saman Zaidi, who is seeking admission for her 3-year-old daughter.
On Sunday, several schools including Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, issued their form mentioning both the government's distance criteria and their own points.
According to experts, after High Court's order, parents are totally confused about the forms they have already filled for these schools. "The Directorate of Education (DoE) should immediately issue a circular and clearly define the instructions for schools and parents over the High Court order and also should mention a common way of measuring distance for these schools," says Sumit Vohra, who runs an online portal for nursery admission.
"Several schools were using their own method of measuring the distance and some were not transparent, not even mentioning the way they will measure the distance at all," he added.
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