The Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed the private unaided schools in the Capital to admit children to the nursery classes under the management quota by staying a January 6, 2016 order of the Aam Aadmi Party government, which had >scrapped the management and all other quotas , except for the economically weaker sections.
In an interim order passed on a batch of writ petition filed by the associations representing the schools, challenging the Delhi government’s decision, the Bench of Justice Manmohan accepted 11 criteria submitted by the schools and said that the schools prima facie had the right to administer without interference.
The court said the Delhi government’s decision prima facie violated an order of the Lieutenant-Governor passed in 2007. The government could not abolish the management quota just by an office order, observed the court.
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The Delhi government had contended before the court that an absolute and unregulated power could not be given to private schools and it had taken the decision to ensure that private schools adopt the criteria which were “fair, just and reasonable”.