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Delimiting education

Updated on: 25 March,2010 07:51 AM IST  | 
Amit Singh |

Parents take NDMC to court after Navyug School denies admission to their wards over a 'border dispute'

Delimiting education

Parents take NDMC to court after Navyug School denies admission to their wards over a 'border dispute'

It's not only politicians who are concerned about the contours of their constituencies changing because of delimitation. The process has claimed some unlikely victims.


Dead end: Though the school accepted the admission forms, it denied
admission to all 12 childrenu00a0file pic


Parents of 12 students have dragged the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) before the Delhi High Court after a school run by the civic body denied admission to the children. Reason: the residential premises of these families were excluded from the New Delhi parliamentary constituency post-delimitation.

In their petition filed through advocate Ashok Agarwal, the parents said that the delimitation of the constituency was not their choice or fault, and therefore their children should not be made to suffer. Though the admission forms had been accepted by the Navyug School, but all the children were denied permission later.

Mohd Asif Khan, a businessman residing on Mata Sundri Road, who seeks admission for his daughter in the nursery section of the same school said: "We have been staying here for the past 35 years and some of our kids are already studying in this school.

Till 2008, there was no problem in getting admission, but 2009 onwards we have been facing this problem. Due to delimitation, this area has been shifted from the New Delhi parliamentary constituency to Chandni Chowk. Any policy designed by the government is for the welfare of the people. But here just the opposite has happened. We have been running from pillar to post without any solution in sight."

"We have met HRD and NDMC officials but everyone is offering delimitation as the excuse. We have also visited the principal of the school but he, too, bluntly refused to help us. Before delimitation there were 19 areas from where the school was accepting admission, and after the process there are only seven areas left. Finally we had to move a petition before the Delhi High Court," said Mohd Asif Iqbal, another petitioner, whose son was denied admittance.

Advocate Ashok Agarwal said: "The new policy of NDMC's Navyug Education Society to deny admission to children residing on Mata Sundri road and Minto road is based on the ground that these areas have been excluded from the New Delhi parliamentary constituency as a result of delimitation. This action of the school is unjust, arbitrary, discriminatory, unconstitutional and violates the fundamental right to education." The petition is likely to be heard on March 26.




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