The Directorate of Education (DoE) on Tuesday released the admission schedule for entry-level classes for open seats in private unaided recognised schools of Delhi for the session 2019-20.
The admission process for nearly 1,600 private schools will begin on December 15, with the government imposing an upper age limit from this year.
Upper age limit
The upper age limit has been set at less than four years to be eligible for nursery, less than five years for kindergarten, and less than six years for admission to Class I by March 31 of the year in which admission is being sought.
Last date
The last date for submitting forms is January 7, 2019.
“The first list of selected children, along with marks secured by them, will be out on February 4. The second list will be out on February 21 and the nursery admission process will conclude on March 31,” the circular stated.
“All private schools will have to upload their criteria for admission in open seats, on its official website by December 14. Schools have been given autonomy to come up with their own points system as long as they stay away from a list of 62 abolished criteria and adopt criteria for admission which shall be fair, reasonable, well-defined, equitable, non-discriminatory, unambiguous and transparent,” the DoE said
Admission for EWS/DG-category seats for the academic session 2019-20 will be notified later and 25% seats in pre-school, pre-primary and Class I will be reserved for the category.
Registration fee
The parents can be charged only ₹25 as admission registration fee, which is non-refundable. The purchase of prospectus of the school by the parents shall be optional.
The DoE said that some of indicative documents which can be considered as proof of residence of parents/child are ration Card/smart Card issued in the name of parents (mother/father having name of child), domicile certificate of child or of his/her parents, voter-id card (EPIC) of any of the parents, electricity bill/MTNL telephone bill/water bill/passport in the name of any of the parents or child and Aadhaar card/UID card issued in the name of any of the parents.
