leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta on Tuesday demanded that the Delhi Government must immediately embark upon special drive to fill-up 11,000 seats of Economic Weaker Section (EWS) category still lying vacant in private schools as half of the academic session is over.
He said that the ruling regime filed an affidavit in the Court in September this year that 11,000 EWS seats were lying vacant in private schools. “It is a serious matter that out of 37,500 seats for EWS students, as many as 11,000 seats have yet not been filled-up,” said Gupta.
He further said that though education department tried to fill the vacant seats by 25 October this year, it failed to achieve the desired results. “It is, therefore, imperative that fresh attempts are made by removing shortcomings in the online system and opening the additional channel of manual or offline system,” the BJP leader added.
Gupta further asked the Government to update the software of the online system to be more effective. “The inputs of parents and children are not being properly registered. The schools and shifts of girls and boys often get exchanged. Neighborhood concept is not being reflected with much accuracy,” said the leader.