Delhi Nursery Admission: 'Explain Stand On Neighbourhood Norm', High Court Asks Centre

Delhi | Tuesday | 7th February, 2017

Summary:

The Delhi High Court yesterday asked the Centre to explain its stand with regard to the neighbourhood criteria to admit students in nursery in private schools in the national capital and other parts of the country. These are questions you will have to answer to me.How you are going to implement the neighbourhood criteria must be clear to me. This kind of a policy has an all India impact," the judge said to the counsel for the ministry. Justice Manmohan sought the response of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in the backdrop of the Delhi government's recent directive to private unaided schools to accept nursery admission forms based only on the neighbourhood or distance criteria. "See, your (Centre's) policy has to be implemented all over India..