Nursery admission: Delhi high court to hear unaided minority schools’ plea today

As per the new set of guidelines approved by Lieutenant Governor, Anil Baijal, all applicants living in the neighbourhood of the school will be given priority over those living further away.

The Delhi high court will on Tuesday hear a case relating to nursery admission notification issued by the state government that made it mandatory for private unaided minority schools to admit students in the unreserved category on the basis of neighbourhood criteria.

A child looks at the notice board about nursery admission at a school in Karol Bagh in New Delhi. (Ravi Choudhary/ Hindustan Times)

In the last hearing, the court had stayed the Delhi government’s notification for 15 to 20 minority schools.

As per the new set of guidelines approved by Lieutenant Governor, Anil Baijal, all applicants living in the neighbourhood of the school will be given priority over those living further away.

Apart from this, the other pointers include giving no preference to girl children and no guidelines for siblings in the same school.

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The admission process for nursery classes started on January 15 and will continue till January 31. Around 260 schools have approached the court against notification.