Will appeal against HC order on management quota: Sisodia

S K Bhattacharya, President of the Action Committee for Unaided Private Schools of which 400 reputed schools are members, said, “We welcome the high court’s order and it will come as a relief for the parents who have been lingering in anxiety as the entire process has been marred by chaos due to the government’s order”.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday put a stay on AAP-led government’s order that was seeking to scrap management quota in nursery admissions in private unaided schools.

In a move to provide transparent governance, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal scrapped management quota and all other quotas with the exception of a 25% for economically weaker sections. The government could not abolish the management quota just by an office order, observed the court.

Associations representing the affected schools had filed petitions challenging the government’s order.

The January 6 order was passed “without any authority under law” or without approval of Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung, and was in direct conflict with the 2007 order issued by the lt. governor giving freedom to private unaided recognised schools to frame their own guidelines for nursery admissions, it added. The court held that the removal of this quota infringes on the right of private schools.

The court clarified that the observations made and the view taken by it are only “prima facie” and not final. “We will appeal against the court’s order”. Efforts to stop arbitrariness in admissions and fees at private schools and bring in transparency will continue.

“Facilitating good education for students in Delhi is responsibility of the government”.

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