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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Petition says guidelines against RTE, court seeks govt response

Petition says guidelines against RTE, court seeks govt response

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published Published on Dec 23, 2010   modified Modified on Dec 23, 2010
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Delhi government on a PIL requesting quashing of nursery admission guidelines framed by the government on the grounds that they violated the Right to Education Act.The court also issued a notice to the Centre and asked for its reply within six weeks.

The next date of hearing on the matter is in March next year.

The PIL was filed by civil rights group ‘Social Jurist’ challenging the validity of government’s notification. The NGO’s lawyer Ashok Agarwal said the guidelines give private schools a free hand to formulate their own admission criteria, which is against the RTE Act andDelhi High Court’s previous orders.

“It is based on categorisation of children. The guidelines will lead to further commercialisation of education at the cost of hapless parents and students,” the PIL said. The lawyer argued that the High Court, in September 2006, had constituted a panel of experts headed by Ashok Ganguly, then Chairman of CBSE, to go into all the issues related to nursery admissions. Three basic principles were highlighted to evolvea common admission process — transparency, elimination of interview andminimising management’s discretion.

The PIL also said the panel had formulated a 100-point scale with emphasis on uniform admission procedure.

“The only agreeable point is 25 per cent reservation for childrenfrom economically weaker sections, but permission to schools to formulate their own policy to fill the remaining seats should not be allowed,” the petition read.


The Indian Express, 23 December, 2010, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/petition-says-guidelines-against-rte-court-seeks-govt-response/728289/


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