Ten days too many

School refuses to issue admission form saying child's age would be 10 days more than the stipulated maximum ageThe city schools seem to be twisting and turning the nursery admission guidelines in every possible way to ensure that seeking admission for their children becomes a difficult proposition for the parents. Representative picIn a complaint filed against the authorities of National Victor Public School, IP Extension, Patparganj, Sanjay Kumar, a relative of four-year-old Aditya Mohan, has said that Aditya was denied nursery admission form on the grounds that he would be ten days older than the stipulated age on March 31, 2011. MiD DAY has a copy of the complaint. According to the DoE guidelines, the child should be not be more than four years of age as on March 31, 2011. Aditya was born on March 21, 2007 and would be four years old on March 21, 2011. My nephew would be just 10 days older on March 31 but the school authorities denied us the form saying that we didn't meet the necessary criteria of admission. We wanted Aditya to get through the school as it falls in our neighbourhood and we have the benefit of maximum points for the same, said Kumar, a resident of West Vinod Nagar.The complaint was filed with the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR). The commission has taken the complaint seriously and has said that it would like to know the provisions under which the school has denied issuance of registration form to the child, thereby adversely affecting the educational prospects of the child with a negative remark right in the beginning. The notice issued by DCPCR reads: Considering the urgency of the matter, the commission is of the opinion that the child may be issued the registration form without any further delay subject to the decision of this commission in the matter. I don't think his being 10 days older should be an issue, it is a matter of education. It is not just this school, even the other neighbourhood school ASN, Senior Secondary School, Mayur Vihar, too did not give us the registration form for the same reason, said an anxious Kumar. The school principal was not available for comment.Denial of the registration forms at various schools is likely to spoil the very beginning of a child's education. We have issued the notice to the school authorities and the principal. It will be acted upon soon, said Shashank Shekhar, member DCPCR. Against the law In another incident of schools flouting admission rules and the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, five unaided private schools of East Delhi refused to provide application forms to a physically challenged kid. Left with no option, the father typed his own application form and mailed it via speed post and lodged written complaints with chief minister, education minister, directorate of education (DoE) and deputy director of the zone, among others on Monday.

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