Observing that no one wanted to admit underprivileged children, a vacation bench of the Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant any relief to a private school whose admission to Economically Weaker Section (EWS) is 25%. Is. The request for exemption from admission of students was rejected by the Directorate. Department of Education (DOE) last month
“The difficulty is that no one wants to accept the underprivileged. Are you trying to tell the court that you do not have underprivileged children in the city,” a division bench of Justice Jyoti Singh and Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta said during the hearing of an appeal filed by PP International School, a private school. Pitampura.
On May 27, a single bench refused to stay the DoE’s order, saying that if the order was stayed, then the EWS category students would suffer irreparable harm.
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The division bench on Wednesday said that it does not find anything wrong in the judgment as it is in accordance with the law.
However, the court issued notice to the Delhi government on the appeal and asked it to respond within four weeks. The appeal was listed for next hearing on July 27. The matter is listed before a single bench on July 22.
PP International in its case before the court has stated that it was able to admit only 17 students in the general category, and it was right to admit only five students in the EWS category for the academic year 2021-22. The school’s counsel has argued that the school cannot be compelled to admit more than 25% of the students, holding that it deliberately did not fill the seats in the general category.
However, the Delhi government has argued that the school needs to fill 25% EWS seats based on the number of seats advertised, even if the school is not able to fill the general category seats. The school had received 761 applications, but according to DoE, only 17 candidates from the general category were admitted.