The Delhi High Court today asked the city government to calculate the number of seats available for seven categories of disabled kids in nursery admissions after implementing the statutory three per cent quota in the total intake by private unaided schools here.
"To illustrate if the total intake of seats for a given year is in the range of 1000 the disability quota would be 3 per cent i.E. 30 seats, which would, for each of the seven subcategories work out to 4 seats," a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and R V Easwar said.
The city government was also asked to find out which schools can cater to which type of disability in order to facilitate a broad scheme under which seats can be earmarked based upon the facilities in an institute.
"The Government of NCT should indicate which schools are geared up to cater to the concerned disability, i.E. Sight disability, hearing impairment, locomotive disability, blindness, etc. ..
"This is in order to facilitate a broad scheme whereby the seats are specifically earmarked having regard to the facilities in that school so that the highest concentration of students to be admitted from such category are admitted to the concerned institutions," the court said.
Meanwhile, the court said the quota as per the Persons with Disabilities Act of 1995 "be kept vacant to await the outcome of the final decision in this case" and listed the matter for further hearing on March 12.
Before the next date of hearing, the court directed the Centre to "indicate the funds available in terms of various schemes under the National Trust for Welfare of Persons Disabilities Act, 1999 and the trusts created under that Act as well as existing schemes formulated by it in that regard."
The order came while hearing a plea challenging the Lt Governor's guidelines clubbing disabled kids with children from economically weaker groups (EWS) during nursery admissions.
