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Clarify whether RTE Act applies to nursery
admissions: Delhi Court
Tuesday February 12, 2013 09:13:29 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court has asked the central government to clarify by
Wednesday whether the Right to Education Act applied to nursery
admissions and if it did, what procedure was to be followed for
it.
The court which had earlier reserved the order on the plea
challenging two government notifications empowering unaided
private schools to formulate their own criteria on nursery
admission, asked the law and justice ministry to inform it by
Wednesday whether the act is applicable on nursery admission also.
A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice V.K.
Jain Tuesday said: "Two things you need to make clear is whether
the Right to Education Act is applicable on nursery admission or
not and if not applicable, then what is the procedure to be
followed for the nursery admission."
The court would hear the matter Wednesday.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Rajeeve Mehra had earlier said
that Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (also
known as RTE Act) stipulates that a child, between the age group
of 6 to 14, would be treated as a child covered under the
legislation and hence, the nursery admission would not under its
purview.
The court was hearing a petition filed by NGO Social Jurist
against the two notifications of the union human resource
development ministry and the Delhi government's directorate of
education, empowering unaided private schools to formulate their
own nursery admission criteria.
The PIL by the NGO through advocate Ashok Agarwal alleged that
these two notifications had given a free hand to all unaided
recognized private schools.
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