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Mixed
response to quota in nursery admissions
Friday February 11, 2011 05:51:41 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: As Delhi's
schools Friday continued announcing their final lists for nursery
admissions, many poor parents in Delhi expressed relief over the
25 percent reservation of seats for their children, while others
expressed doubts.
The Right to Education (RTE) Act implemented last year has
increased the reservation for children from the economically
weaker section (EWS) of the society from 15 percent to 25 percent.
Under the reservation system, the expenses for the children's
elementary education in private schools will be reimbursed by the
government.
"To some extent, the 25 percent reservation has helped us because
the same private schools never bothered to look at us, forget
about giving admission to our child," said Deba Mishra, an auto-rikshaw
driver in north Delhi.
"For the first time, someone in our family will be going to an
English-medium school," added Mishra, whose four-year-old daughter
got admission in Goodley Public School in north Delhi's Shalimar
Bagh.
For some parents, however, the procedure turned out to be a battle
as they could not secure a seat for their children even after the
reservation.
"Even if the schools are using lottery system for the EWS quota,
there should be some transparency in the number of seats. Parents
applying through point system know why their child could not make
it, but we don't," complained an angry Ramesh Tyagi, as he waits
for the second list of admissions in west Delhi schools.
While schools applied the lottery or draw system for the EWS, a
point system was applied for the general category after the
directorate of education (DoE) guidelines.
Under the points system, students were selected on the basis of
points scored by them and their parents. Parameters decided by the
school included proximity of their home to the school, siblings
studying in the institution, single parent and girl child, among
others.
"We did not know the exact details of the procedure used in the
lottery system," complained Tyagi.
While parents gave mixed reactions to the RTE provision, schools
observed a spurt in the number of applications that came for
admission this year.
"We have to wait for the final figure. But we have already seen a
considerable increase in the number of forms submitted," Vandana
Puri, principal of Salwan Public School in central Delhi's
Rajinder Nagar, told IANS.
The school has already received 650 applications, as compared to
250 last year, said Puri.
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