Nursery admissions under strict vigilance

Kids are the future of the job market. It is the time of the year when they make a queue along their parents to seek admissions in the schools.

Delhi Government is keeping its eyes and ears open on ongoing nursery admissions. Over 1,700 private unaided recognised schools have opened up admission to nursery classes. There are approximately 1.25 lakh nursery seats across the 1,700 schools.

Schools have already doled out its second waiting list. However, parents of the kids who haven’t been able to secure seats in the desired schools are worried. “The government is keeping a check on schools so that they don’t demand donations or offer seats to parents on any bargain,” said Vijender Garg, member of a legislative assembly representing AAP Government from Rajinder Nagar of Delhi.

He further quoted the notification issued on 28th February which directs that the details of all the entry level classes along with the seats available for admission must be declared by all schools on the module of directorate website as well as on their notice board, website and a hard copy form duly signed by the head of the school.

While the government had also announced draw of the lots in the presence of the parents to complete the procedure in a transparent manner, Garg said that the government is vigilant and is going through the submissions and declarations by all schools thoroughly leaving no space for ‘blackmailing of students.’

The nursery admission application forms were out on December 27 last year. The second list of selected candidates was announced on February 28, 2018, and the subsequent admission lists, if any, will be announced on March 15, 2018.

The admission process will close on March 31, 2018, a government circular said.

For this year’s admission, the government did not change the admission criteria. Schools were allowed to set their own rules and allot points to various criterions such as distance, first child, girl child, and alumnus. “…all private unaided recognized schools shall develop and adopt criteria for admission which shall be fair, reasonable, well defined, equitable, non-discriminatory, unambiguous and transparent,” the Directorate of education said in a circular.

However, the he maintained that all schools will have to abide by the government’s order that had abolished 62 criteria considered “unfair, unreasonable and non-transparent”.