Notice to Delhi over delayed admission of 1,400 students
November 2nd, 2011 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government on a petition seeking directions to start the process for admission of 1,400 students to Class 6 of its 17 Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalayas (RPVV) in the academic year 2011-12.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued the notice, returnable by Nov 23, to the Delhi government’s directorate of education.
The court was hearing a petition of NGO Social Jurist through its counsel Ashok Agarwal that they have been regularly telling the directorate to go ahead with the process for admission of 1,400 students to Class 6 in as many as 17 of these schools but no satisfactory reply has been received so far.
Though the academic session 2011-12 has started from April 1, 2011, till date even the admission process has not been started by the respondent, Agarwal said. This, he added, was resulting in non-utilisation of both physical and academic infrastructure available for such students in these schools.
“The respondent has been withholding the process of admission without any justification, thereby depriving as many as 1,400 students from taking benefit of good quality education,” he said.
“Inaction on the part of the respondent has resulted in violation of fundamental rights of the school-aged students as guaranteed under Articles 14, 15, 21, 21-A and 38 of the Constitution of India read with the provisions of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009,” the petition said.
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