Nursery Admissions in Delhi: All You Need To Know

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New Delhi/ 26Dec. Nursery admission in Delhi schools is not a kid’s job. Young parents pass through sleepless nights in process of getting their kids admitted in a good school of the locality. The admission process will begin from January 1 as per the guidelines issued by the Delhi government’s Department of Education (DoE). Dynamite News presents you details about the admission process and related issues.

Important dates
Nursery admission is set to begin on January 1, 2016. While the last date for submitting the application is January 22, the first list will be displayed on February 15, followed by another list on February 29.The entire admission process will get over by March 31.

Criteria for admission
Like last year, schools will be free to come out with their own criteria for admissions as long as they are ‘well defined, nondiscriminatory, unambiguous and transparent’. The last date for declaring the admission criteria was December 25.  However, according to latest reports more than 1000 schools have failed to comply the dates related to admission criteria.

Admission for EWS and DG
Like very year, schools will have to reserve 25 per cent of the seats for the EWS/DG. However, the DoE also asked private, unaided recognized schools to not process the admission of EWS/DG students manually as it was in the process of developing a module for online admission under the category.  Schools were also required to declare the number of seats reserved for EWS/DG categories by December 20, but many schools failed on this too.

Seats
According to guidelines, all schools shall comply with the directive that the number of seats at the entry-level shall not be less than the highest number of seats during the years 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-2016.

Age for admission
The minimum age limit for admission in pre-school, pre-primary and class -I are prescribed as 3 years, 4 years and 5 years respectively as on March 31 of the year in which admission is being sought. This academic session onwards, now upper age limit is also fixed for entry classes  which are as – 4 years for pre-school, 5 years for pre-primary and 6 years for class 1. The upper age limit for admission in entry level classes for differently abled children have been decided as 5 years, 6 years and 7 years respectively.

Transparency
To ensure transparency, the department has mandated that schools upload details of applicants and marks allotted to them on the school’s website apart from the department’s website. The department has also asked schools to upload details of children admitted and wait-listed under their respective point system on its website.