"Facilitating good education for students in Delhi is responsibility of the government. We will appeal against the HC order," Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, said in a tweet.
"We respect the court's decision but the fight for transparency in functioning of private schools will continue," he added.
The Delhi High Court today stayed AAP government's order scrapping management quota in nursery admissions in private unaided schools, saying the decision was taken without the authority of law.
Schools welcomed the order saying the high court has upheld the autonomy of the educational institutions which has been guaranteed to them by the Constitution but was being attacked by the government.
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"We have been reiterating the fact that our fight was not against the scrapping of management quota but against the attack on schools' autonomy.
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He said, "Schools did not know what to do, parents did not know whether the process will be delayed or not. So, all the confusion has ended thankfully."
The government had last month scrapped management quota and all other reservations except the EWS category in private schools for nursery admissions and warned that erring institutions can be taken over by the Education Department.