HC asks Delhi to form committee to monitor admission in nursery

New Delhi, Jan 19 (UNI) The Delhi High Court today directed the Delhi Government to constitute a Committee to monitor the implementation of the Ashok Ganguly Committee report for admission of students in the nursery class of public schools.

A division bench headed by Chief Justice M K Sharma asked the government to collect the information and submit it before the court.

The Monitoring Committee would consist of three members with two from the Ashok Ganguly Committee, which had prepared the guidelines for admission to nursery class in various schools.

The Committee in its report had put forth various parameters on a scale of 1 to 100 for the schools while admitting students in nursery classes.

Distance from the school, sibling in the school, parents' alumni would be given weightage while selecting a child, said the report.

The students residing in the 3 kms radius of the school would be getting 20 points, no weightage for staying beyond 10 kms, said the report.

The child of a single parent, an alumni of the same school, would get 20 points and either parents would get 5 points each. Girl and disabled child would be preferred with five point each while considering for admission.

The parental education level would fetch maximum 20 points, while the school would not ask for any financial contributions.

The High Court had asked the public schools in the capital to formulate a transperant policy on admitting students in nursery class without subjecting them to rigours of interviews.

UNI