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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Delhi government schools are turning away children who don't have Aadhaar -Shreya Roy Chowdhury

Delhi government schools are turning away children who don't have Aadhaar -Shreya Roy Chowdhury

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published Published on Apr 12, 2017   modified Modified on Apr 12, 2017
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Activists say the insistence on the unique ID for enrolment is a violation of the Right to Education Act and will lead to the exclusion of migrant children.

On the morning of April 6, Uzma Begum took her nine-year-old daughter Iram to Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in East Delhi’s New Seemapuri in an attempt to admit her into the government-run school. She had to return home unsuccessful. “Ghar mein bithao [Make your daughter sit at home],” a teacher told Begum.

Iram does not have an Aadhaar number.

This year, the Delhi government made the 12-digit unique identification number one of the four mandatory pieces of information that a child is required to submit for admission into one of its schools. This is the final leg of a two-year-old government campaign in the national capital to push parents to enrol their children with Aadhaar.

The Delhi government justifies its move, saying that Aadhaar enrolment in Delhi is nearly complete and that this is the only viable way to track children through education systems, both public and private. The government argues that the insistence on every child having an Aadhaar number helps prevent duplication in school enrolment – a situation where a child has joined another school without formally withdrawing from the previous one she was attending. This has ostensibly curbed wastage of government funds, even though officials concede they have neither estimates of the extent of duplication eliminated nor of the resultant savings.

Activists counter the assumption that all children are already enrolled in schools. They say that the demand for Aadhaar is a violation of the Right to Education Act. “The Right to Education Act 2009 requires no documents – not even proof of age – for admission,” said lawyer and activist Khagesh Jha. “It exists to remove such barriers.”

Rajiv Kumar of the education non-profit, Pardarshita, added that several children were finding it difficult to enrol for Aadhaar because local enrolment centres “insisted on birth certificates and address proof which many children did not have”.

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Scroll.in, 11 April, 2017, https://scroll.in/article/834245/admissions-delhi-government-schools-are-turning-away-children-who-dont-have-aadhaar


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