Parents seeking admission for their children can soon apply for Delhi Public School. The school is going to begin admissions at three of their branches including East of Kailash, Vasant Vihar and Dwarka from Wednesday.
DPS Dwarka is starting the procedure from December 24 and East of Kailash and Vasant Vihar branches will follow soon on December 26. Forms for all the schools will be made available online on the announced dates.
While East of Kailash and Vasant Vihar branches have given maximum points to the neighbourhood criteria, the Dwarka branch has given equal weightage to neighbourhood, sibling and alumni. Seventy points have been given to neighbourhood, 20 points to sibling and five points to the alumni category by both DPS East of Kailash and Vasant Vihar.
DPS Dwarka has given 40 points to neighbourhood for a range within 0-15 kilometres subject to the availability of school transport, another 30 points to sibling of the applicant studying in the school in the academic year 2015-16, five points to girl child, five points to single parent offspring and another 20 points to alumni.
Other big schools like St. Thomas are likely to start admissions by January 2.
Parents hassledMeanwhile, some parents have complained that the schools are screening parents on the basis of their income which is totally against the Ganguly Committee recommendations.
“We have been receiving complaints from parents that schools are screening parents on the basis of income. Also, some schools are selling forms for Rs. 100 to Rs. 200, while the association had declared that no school will sell forms for more than Rs. 25 and will not screen children,” said Sumit Vohra who runs the website nurseryadmissions.com.
“It was also seen for the first time that the schools were taking an undertaking from parents that no money would be refunded after admission. Admissions this year have become more difficult because all the schools are making their own guidelines”, he added.
