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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Discretion under management quota misused: Delhi govt tells high court
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Discretion under management quota misused: Delhi govt tells high court

Delhi government says if management quota is misused for profiteering purposes, it will step in and regulate

Photo: Arvind Yadav/HTPremium
Photo: Arvind Yadav/HT

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Wednesday reserved its order after hearing both sides on an appeal brought against a management quota for nursery admissions in private, unaided schools.

Justice Manmohan, in his interim order of 4 February, allowed a management quota and was of the view that an order passed by the Delhi government barring it did not have legal sanction.

A bench comprising of chief justice G. Rohini and Jayant Nath, while reserving the order, clarified that it will be limited to the issue of a management quota and not other criteria that were stayed by the single judge’s order.

Stating that there had been an inherent contradiction in the entire approach under the order of the single judge, Guru Krishnan Kumar, counsel for the Delhi government, said: “We do not wish to interfere with the autonomy granted to private schools under management quota; however, if it is misused for profiteering purposes then it is our duty to step in and regulate."

He said certain criteria that were allowed under the interim order were overlapping with other criteria that had not been stayed by the court.

For instance, scrapping of management quota was stayed under the order while criteria such as management discretion and management reference, conveying the same meaning as a management quota, were not stayed.

Another contradiction pertained to the court refusing to take action citing lack of sufficient evidence when material in the form of letters from aggrieved parents disclosing instances of misuse under the quota system were placed on record by Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.

The private schools submitted that the Delhi government’s order scrapping management quota and other admission criteria did not have legal sanction of the lieutenant governor and therefore, should not be made operative.

On 6 January, the Delhi government scrapped the management quota and several other admission criteria followed in private schools in a bid to make the admission process transparent.

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Published: 11 Feb 2016, 12:15 AM IST
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