HC seeks Delhi govt response on plea to scrap sibling, alumni

The Delhi High Court today sought a response from Delhi government on a plea seeking scrapping of the alumni and sibling categories in nursery admissions.
Justice Manmohan refused to pass any interim orders in the hearing conducted in his chamber and listed the matter to be taken up on July 25.
The matter was listed before him after the same was mentioned before the bench of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice S Mridul for an urgent hearing.
The petition, filed by Sudhanshu Jain and some other parents through advocate Prashant Mehta, has sought quashing of the two categories or in the alternative setting up a cap on the number of seats allotted to the two groups.

While mentioning the matter in the morning, Mehta said that after the inter-state transfer category was deleted, the parents had made a representation to the Directorate of Education (DoE) to delete the alumni and sibling categories.
The representation was accepted by the DoE which, however, refused to implement the same in the current academic session saying it would be inconvenient, Mehta told the court.