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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Many private schools in Delhi reject EWS entries even as 13,000 seats remain vacant -Fareeha Iftikhar

Many private schools in Delhi reject EWS entries even as 13,000 seats remain vacant -Fareeha Iftikhar

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published Published on Oct 22, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 22, 2018
-Hindustan Times

According to records of Delhi’s Directorate of Education (DoE), of the 48,122 seats reserved under the so-called economically weaker section or EWS category in private schools at the entry level, only 35,500 seats have been filled.

New Delhi:
Almost 13,000 nursery seats reserved for children from economically disadvantaged households in private schools in the 2018-19 academic session remain unfilled in the city with less than two months remaining for the start of the admission process for the next session (2019-20).

According to records of the Directorate of Education (DoE) , of the 48,122 seats reserved under the so-called economically weaker section or EWS category in private schools at the entry level, only 35,500 seats have been filled. And according to a recent report submitted by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) to the DoE, as many as 74 private schools did not admit even a single student under the EWS category in the last two academic sessions.

The schools have given a variety of reasons for refusing admission: no vacancies; the school being too far from the home of the child seeking admission; or that even general category seats are yet to be filled. The sixth round of admissions is still underway.

In some cases, parents this correspondent interviewed alleged that private schools denied admission to their wards even after their names appeared in the selected lists. DoE’s response to this is that many such families do not report for admission even after the names have come up in the draw of lots and the selected names are displayed on the DoE website. DoE, which comes under the state government’s education department, releases the list of selected candidates.

Sanjay Goel, director of the DoE, said, “All these seats are vacant in less popular schools. Parents are not interested in getting their kids enrolled there. We have issued multiple notices to the schools after receiving complaints from parents. We have also sent our officials in many schools for inspection and found that parents did not report there.”

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Hindustan Times, 18 October, 2018, https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/many-private-schools-in-delhi-reject-ews-entries-even-as-13-000-seats-remain-vacant/story-uU5BHanBP8M5m8J7krMmnM.html


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