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EWS admission: Delhi government directs private schools to enroll all selected candidates

The order came after reports came to fore that some schools were denying admission under the quota claiming general category is yet to be filled.

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The Delhi government directed the private schools across the national Capital to enroll all the candidates whose names appeared under the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) as per the Right to Education (RTE) Act, on Thursday. The order came after reports came to fore that some schools were denying admission under the quota claiming general category is yet to be filled.

According to a statement issued by the Department of Education, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had recently received multiple reports about schools denying admission to children under the EWS claiming that their seats under general category had been filled. "A similar issue had cropped up last year as well. However, after raids conducted by the education department, it was found that some schools had concealed actual enrolment in order to deny admissions to children under the EWS," it said.

Under the Right to Education Act, 2009, 25 per cent of all seats to the entry-level class are reserved for EWS and Disadvantaged Group (DG) category in all the private recognised unaided schools. "The Delhi High Court has upheld the Delhi government's definition of class strength that is it shall not be less than the highest number of seats in the entry level class in the previous three academic years," the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government said in the statement.

"The caveat added by the HC is that the Director Education (DE) has discretionary power to grant relief to a school if the DE has verified that the school has made every effort possible to fill all general category seats," it said. And, in absence of the director's certification, the schools must admit all the children whose names have appeared in the EWS list through a computerised draw, it added.

Several complaints of parents having trouble in getting their kids admitted in private schools under the EWS/DG quota had come up even after their names appeared in the list of selected candidates that was released on March 15.

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