The ban imposed by the Delhi High Court on interviews for nursery children and their parents at the time of admission has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
Refusing to give relief to Delhi schools in the nursery admission case, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Delhi High Court’s verdict that the process be conducted in accordance with the recommendations of the Ganguly Committee Report.
A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice-designate K G Balakrishnan and Justice D K Jain, however, granted liberty to the petitioners to approach the High Court afresh for raising their objections regarding the Ganguly Committee recommendations.
Earlier, South Delhi’s Shriram School and Vasant Valley School had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the December 8, 2006,order of the High Court.
The petitioners challenged the 100-point criteria recommended by the Ganguly Committee, describing it as an attempt to take away the autonomy of private schools.
The school managements argued that the Delhi High Court did not pay proper attention to the objections raised by them regarding the recommendation/100-point scale for selection of children for admission to the nursery classes.
The 100-point formula for Nursery Admissions Management include:
o No interviews with children and parents
o 20 points for residence being within a 3-km range of the school
o 20 points for residence being between 3 km and 10 km
o No points for residence being beyond a 10-km radius
o 20 points to parents’ qualifications, siblings in same school preferred
o 5 points to girl child
o 5 points to disabled children
o Heavier weightage to single parent
o Common admission dates for all schoolsLabels: Education, Society |
