New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the AAP government’s appeal against a single-bench order that restored the management quota in nursery admissions in private unaided schools.
A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath refused an interim stay on the single judge order restoring the management quota. Justice Manmohan, in an interim order on February 4, put on hold the city government’s January 6 circular that scrapped the management quota and 11 other criteria, saying the institutions were entitled to full autonomy in administration. In its appeal, the Delhi government argued that it took the decision “without any view to interfere in the autonomy of private unaided schools. “The objective was not to deprive private unaided schools of their autonomy, but to ensure that admissions to entry-level classes are made in a fair, reasonable, rational, transparent and non-exploitative manner,” contended the Delhi government counsel. “There are widespread allegations that the management quota is being misused. There is no standard procedure followed in the management quota. There are no details by schools who are getting admissions under the quota,” the counsel said. The education department was “fully empowered and competent in terms of the Delhi Schools Education Act and rules framed thereunder to issue the January 6 order”, he added.−IANS
