Nursery admission in the national Capital will begin soon, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday. "We will soon begin nursery admission. The process was delayed this year due to the pandemic," he said while interacting with principals and authorities of private schools on educational reforms in the post-Covid-19 era.
Usually, nursery admission in around 1,700 schools in Delhi begins in the last week of November. The Directorate of Education (DoE) releases guidelines and schools are asked to furnish required information, following which the application process is rolled out usually in December. However, there has been no development on it this year.
Delhi Government officials had in December said that a proposal to scrap nursery admissions is being considered as the schools have been closed for nine months due to Covid-19 and will remain closed till a vaccine is available, a whole year of online learning for small children seems unviable. School principals were opposed to the idea of not admitting students in nursery this year.
However, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia last month had ruled out scrapping nursery admission.
Kejriwal asked authorities and private schools principals to work together with government on education reforms
“Education is our top priority, providing quality education to every student is our dream, government schools and private schools are two arms of the education system, both will work together for the benefit of our students,We are in complete favour of autonomy to the schools but will not allow any kind of injustice to happen to our students and their parents,” Kejriwal said.
Sisodia who was also there in the meeting said we want mindset development to be an important part of quality education, both government and private schools will play an important role in shaping honest, emotionally sound, and professional individuals.
The Action Committee of Private Unaided Recognized Schools has more than 1000 schools as its members. During the pandemic, the committee has donated close to Rs 1.34 crores for the CM Relief Fund along with thousands of PPE kits and dry ration.
Kejriwal thanked the committee for their support and contribution. Secretary Education H Rajesh Prasad, Director Education ( DE ) Udit Prakash Rai,
Consultant Private School Branch Yogesh Pratap Singh and President of Action Committee S K Bhattacharya were also present during the interaction.