Petition in Delhi HC on unrecognised play schools

A plea was today filed in the Delhi High Court against unauthorised and unrecognised play schools in the national capital.
According to the plea, which is likely to be heard on Friday, despite a court order of 2008, unrecognised schools have been allowed to run in Delhi, posing danger to the children taking admission there.
The Delhi government's directorate of education (DoE) has done nothing to ensure this, resulting in continuous existence and mushrooming of hundreds of unauthorised, unsafe and unrecognised play schools and pre-primary schools in Delhi, the plea alleged.
NGO Social Jurist in its petition, filed through advocate Ashok Agarwal and Khagesh Jha, said that some action-taken reports were submitted in the court but it was silent as to what action the directorate propose to take against such schools that had not applied for recognition and were still continuing to function.

In 2008, the high court had asked the government to frame a scheme for regularising and regulating these unregistered institutions.