Delhi HC lifts stay, paves way for resumption of nursery admissions

New Delhi: In a major relief to parents, the Delhi High Court today lifted its stay on nursery admissions and ordered its resumption with certain directions, including kids selected in draw of lots under neighbourhood criteria will get admission.A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed, which heard two separate petitions for almost the whole day, passed its interim order in the evening saying, “Appellants, who have 70 points under neighbourhood criteria and were selected in the draw of lots, will not be disturbed. They will be given the admission.”It, however, clarified that kids, who emerged winner in the draw of lots in more than one school, “shall choose one school and will have to relinquish other seats on or before April 9. Otherwise, they shall lose the right of admission in any of them.”The bench, also comprising Justice Siddharth Mridul, asked the Directorate of Education (DoE) to collect the data from all unaided recognised private schools about the number of seats, which fall vacant and remained unfilled and provide it to the court on next date of hearing on April 16.The court said on the next date, it will try to find a solution by considering the number of remaining seats and the claim of the parents who were initially given 5 points under inter-state transfer category. The government later had done away with the criteria.At the fag end of the hearing, the Acting Chief Justice lost his cool after mother of a kid alleged that her views have not been considered.“Use such kind of language against politicians and not against a court of law. I have been hearing patiently the submissions. I can tell you nobody in the country can give you such a patient hearing. Usually I do not lose my cool,” Justice Ahmed said.Earlier, the court had stayed the fresh draw of lots being conducted for admission in nursery classes in pursuance of the March 6 order of the single judge bench and had ordered that no further admission will take place without its permission.The petition said, “If those persons who have earlier secured 75 points because of inter-state transfer criteria have to be again considered, they should be considered by a fresh draw of lots to be held amongst themselves along with the remaining applicants having 70 points and not at the cost of the appellants herein who had already participated in the draw of lots earlier held validly for those applicants securing 70 points.”The larger bench was today in agreement with the plea and said the successful kids, having 70 neighbourhood points, were not before the single judge bench when the order to conduct fresh draw of lots was passed and hence, their admission cannot be stalled.Earlier, the government had told the court that it had decided to scrap the inter-state transfer category for which five extra points were awarded to a kid in the admission process.Under the earlier system, out of the total 100 points, 70 were given if the child lives in the neighbourhood of the school, additional 20 were given if a sibling is studying there, five points more if either parent is an alumni and another five points if it is an inter-state transfer case.Draw of lots is being held at each point level.

Delhi HC lifts stay, paves way for resumption of nursery admissions

New Delhi: In a major relief to parents, the Delhi High Court today lifted its stay on nursery admissions and ordered its resumption with certain directions, including kids selected in draw of lots under neighbourhood

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