Ensure admission to EWS students in pvt schools: HC to Delhi govt
The court said these children are being forced to knock on the doors of the court for availing of their fundamental right to education.
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to ensure admission to children belonging to weaker sections of the society in private unaided schools. It observed that it is high time that the judiciary reaches out to people instead of waiting for them to reach out to it.
It said these children are being forced to knock on the doors of the court for availing of their fundamental right to education.
The Delhi High Court said all private unaided schools concerned shall ensure that no student belonging to the “weaker sections” as defined in the Right To Education (RTE) Act and recommended by the Directorate of Education (DoE) for being admitted in an academic session shall be denied admission or treated with conduct that is unwelcoming of them on any pretext whatsoever, including that of suspicion of credentials.
School gates shut on faces of shortlisted lot
The counsel representing the children belonging to the economically weaker section (EWS) who were denied admission by several schools submitted that to add insult to injury, the school gates were literally shut on the faces of the shortlisted students and their parents.
“One can just imagine the humiliation faced by the young children and their parents. This court, as a custodian of the Constitution, cannot remain a mute spectator to the outright bulldozing of human rights by those in the noble service of imparting education, thus bringing a bad name and repute to the same,” Justice Chandra Dhari Singh said in an 85-page judgment.
The High Court said: “These children have committed no other crime but that they were born in poverty. This court’s conscience is laden with the woes of the poor children and their parents. The state of affairs is appalling, anguishing and agonising. It is a travesty of justice and an utter failure on the part of the State in its duties of a welfare state.”
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