The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday expressed dissatisfaction with the Delhi High Court's decision of quashing the government's nursery admission guidelines and restoring the administrative autonomy of schools.
"We respect the High Court's decision on nursery admissions but we are not satisfied with it, because this will result in private schools looking for maximum profit via donations and high fees. If private schools are given the right to decide their admission guidelines, then the 'quota' system will increase," AAP leader Manish Sisodia told the media.
Sisodia also appealed to the Delhi Government to take up the case with the Supreme Court.
"The HC's decision will start manipulation and now the Delhi Government should appeal against it in the Supreme Court and work in favour of parents, not private schools," Sisodia stated.
He further assured that when AAP will be in power, it will act against the admission policy of private schools.
"Education is every child's right and the Government's responsibility is to make sure they get it, no matter how much money is spent on it. Our next Delhi dialogue will probably be on education," Sisodia said.
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He added that when AAP was in power, their guidelines on the admission policy resulted in putting a stop on corruption in private schools and various quotas such as that of management were all stopped.
"We worked for transparency in nursery admissions by which parents would have been benefitted," Sisodia said.
Earlier in the day, the Delhi High Court quashed the government's guidelines while hearing petitions filed by parents against the guidelines issued by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on December 18, 2013 on nursery admissions, thereby restoring the administrative autonomy of schools.
Stating that the guidelines have no authority of law, the HC said that it is violative of the Constitution as well as the fundamental rights of the private unaided schools which have been given maximum autonomy in the day- to- day administration of their affairs.
The court further added that the 2007 guidelines laid down by the government were good, and there is no reason to change them.