NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday stayed a Delhi Excessive Court docket order directing the AAP authorities to try to clear the backlog of unfilled EWS seats in personal faculties within the subsequent 5 years.
A bench of Justices S Okay Kaul and M M Sundresh issued discover to the Delhi authorities’s Training Division and others on an attraction difficult the excessive courtroom order.
“Problem discover. Counter affidavit be filed inside two weeks. Within the meantime, there shall be a keep of the impugned order(s) as additionally additional proceedings,” the bench stated.
The highest courtroom was listening to an attraction filed by Venkateshwar International Faculty in opposition to an order dated Could 26, 2022, of the excessive courtroom.
It additionally stated the state has to step in to assist EWS class college students in circumstances the place faculties haven’t complied with the necessities of admissions.
The excessive courtroom had stated the state shall be sure that the 25 per cent seats within the EWS class be crammed up primarily based on declared sanctioned power on the entry-level — pre-school, nursery, pre-primary, KG, and class-I — irrespective of the particular variety of college students admitted within the basic class.
“In situations the place faculties haven’t complied with the strict necessities of admission of EWS class college students, the state has to step into the help of the latter and train its responsibility as a welfare state. No beneficiary of presidency land can overlook or keep away from its obligation below the allotment,” the bench had stated.
“Within the circumstances, each endeavour shall be made by the state to make sure that the backlog of unfilled seats in personal faculties, each on personal and authorities lands, is crammed up within the subsequent 5 years in a phased method, that’s, 20 per cent of the vacancies every year, along with the mandated annual 25 per cent consumption, ” it had stated.
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