The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce on Tuesday its verdict on several pleas challenging the the government’s direction to private unaided schools to accept nursery admission forms based only on the neighbourhood criteria.
Justice Manmohan had on February 9 reserved judgment on a batch of petitions filed by parents and two school groups against the Delhi government’s December 19, 2016, and January 7 notifications. As per the notification, 298 private schools built on DDA land had to accept nursery admission forms based only on the distance norm.
The court had termed the month-long hearing as “unprecedented” as counter affidavits were not called for from the Delhi government.
During the arguments, the school groups had alleged that the government had “discriminated” among schools as the neighbourhood criteria had been applied to only 298 schools and was not mandatory for 1,400 other schools. The government defended itself saying that perusal of the allotment letter “clearly and explicitly shows that lessee school had willingly accepted the terms of allotment and on the same very terms of allotment, the lessee has been enjoying the property since time of allotment”. — PTI
