By IANS
New Delhi : The Ashok Ganguly committee appointed by the Delhi High Court to look into admission procedures to nursery classes in public schools Friday recommended awarding of five points to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students.
Submitting its second report incorporating changes before a bench headed by Chief Justice M.K. Sarma, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) Chairman Ashok Ganguly said that five points have been reserved for SC/ST category children.
The court fixed Aug 2 to record any objections to the new recommendations, which would be put on trial for one year from the next academic session.
“The committee carefully examined all the views and suggestions received from different stakeholders and discussed them at length. It also studied the particulars of admission to the nursery classes in some private schools of Delhi made in 2006-07 (under the old practice) and 2007-08 (under the new norms),” said the report.
On the recommendation of the first report of the Ganguly committee, the Delhi High Court in October last year had barred nursery schools from conducting any interviews or interaction with children or their guardians during the admission process.
While doing away with the interviews, the court had fixed a points system ranging from 1 to 100 for admissions.
While assigning maximum 25 points to the neighbourhood clause, the committee earmarked 5 points for physically challenged children. The committee left 25 points to the discretion of the school management.
Stressing on the neighbourhood school model, the court said priority should be given to children staying within three km radius of schools – giving 20 points.
The points would decrease with the increased distance from the school. The wards of teachers and ex-students would get preference in admissions.