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![RTE trouble: Parents' union petitions NAC Wants Sonia Gandhi to restrain Delhi govt's 'unfair' ways Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service New Delhi, December 18 Even before the Right to Education Act could start rolling, state governments have begun to dilute its landmark provisions. Taking serious objection to the Delhi government's December 15 order that allows unaided private schools to evolve their own admission criteria for nursery classes, the All India Parents Association today petitioned the National Advisory Council against Delhi's arbitrariness, saying the order was against RTE Act provisions and should be brought in for reconsideration. In a letter to NAC chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the association said the Delhi government's order gave a free hand to private schools (of Delhi) to formulate their own admission criteria based on categorisation of children for admission to the academic year 2011-12.]() | RTE trouble: Parents' union petitions NAC
Wants Sonia Gandhi to restrain Delhi govt's 'unfair' ways
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 18
Even before the Right to Education Act could start rolling, state governments have begun to dilute its landmark provisions. Taking serious objection to the Delhi government's December 15 order that allows unaided private schools to evolve their own admission criteria for nursery classes, the All India Parents Association today petitioned the National Advisory Council against Delhi's arbitrariness, saying the order was against RTE Act provisions and should be brought in for reconsideration.
In a letter to NAC chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the association said the Delhi government's order gave a free hand to private schools (of Delhi) to formulate their own admission criteria based on categorisation of children for admission to the academic year 2011-12.
"This move is against the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, and would lead to further commercialisation of education. Categorisation is impermissible under the Act," the letter stated. The order came in the backdrop of the Union HRD Ministry issuing a recent notification that diluted the no-screening provision of the Act. The Ministry has allowed unaided schools to have admission criteria based on categories.
Parents, however, feared that this dilution would take away from the law its only equitable provision with respect to children's admissions. Originally, the law only mandated random selections.
But Delhi has become the first state to order dilution of admission rules as per HRD Ministry's notification. The association, in its petition to NAC, argued that the fee-paying parents were already being exploited by private schools, which hike fees exorbitantly every year.
"We seek a central law to regulate fees and other charges in private schools," the petition adds, recalling the 100-point admission criteria the Delhi government was hitherto following under directions of the High Court, which had set up a committee to look into arbitrary admissions by private schools.
The Ashok Ganguly Committee had called for transparent admission, abolition of interview system and minimisation of management discretion. "Ever since the RTE Act has come into force from April 1, old selection criteria no longer applies," Ashok Agarwal, of the Association, said. | |
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