DoE warns private schools to notify nursery admission criteria

Delhi Government's Directorate of Education (DoE) today issued another warning to private schools in the national capital who have failed to notify their criteria for nursery admissions to do so by December 31 otherwise action would be taken against them.
According to data available with DoE, 324 out of 1737 private schools have not notified their criteria yet despite passing of two deadlines and the department warning them of strict action. The defaulter schools have now been asked to comply with the directive latest by December 31.
DoE had asked all the unaided recognised schools to "develop and adopt criteria for admission which shall be clear, well defined, equitable, non-discriminatory, unambiguous and transparent".

The schools were asked to upload the criteria adopted for admission to entry level classes (other than those for economically weaker sections and disadvantaged groups) for the academic session 2016-17 on the directorate's website latest by December 20.
However, after over 1300 schools had failed to meet the deadline, DoE issued a notice warning the schools of strict action if the directive was not complied with latest by December 25.
"It has been observed that some of the schools have still not submitted the admission criteria to be adopted for the admission for the session 2016-17. Principals of all such school are hereby again directed to immediately upload the same by December 31. The instruction has been issued for strict compliance," a DoE circular sent to schools said.

"Once the admission criteria is uploaded and the school start receiving applications from January 1, it shall award the points to the applicant on the basis of Points System already decided and submitted to the Directorate," it added.
The nursery admission process in Delhi schools will begin from January 1 and conclude on March 31.
While the last date for submitting the application is January 22, the first list will be out on February 15 followed by another list on February 29.