The Delhi government has decided to increase the reimbursement by Rs 300 per child to all private schools in the national capital for admissions under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category fr
The Delhi government has decided to increase the reimbursement by Rs 300 per child to all private schools in the national capital for admissions under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category from the upcoming academic session. The decision to increase the amount comes after deputy education minister Manish Sisodia received complaints from various private schools against “minimal amount” reimbursed by the government to them for allowing students under EWS category.
“The government presently reimburses a fixed am-ount to private schools in lieu of taking admission of students who belong to this section. However, numerous complaints were rece-ived about the amount bei-ng less,” a senior director-ate of education (DoE) official said. “It has now been decided that the amount will be raised to Rs 1,598 from Rs 1,290,” the official added.
During the ongoing admission for entry-level classes, the government has allotted over 26,600 seats through computerised draws under the EWS category, an experiment that has been introduced by the Delhi government for the first time.
Mr Sisodia after releasing the first computerised data in February had said that the decision to make the draw-of-lots online was taken to make the entire process transparent. “Some of you (private schools) were admitting non-eligible students under the EWS category to favour ministers and officials. But now with technology, we have changed that,” he had said.
Till last year, the government only issued a common form and monitored the draw-of-lots. The rest of the process was managed by the schools. In the online system, however, applicants are allotted seats and the admission process is centralised.
The DoE received 73,059 applications since Febru-ary for the 28,000 seats available under the EWS category for nursery admissions.
SDMC to installs CCTVs in 579 municipal schools In attempt to ensure security of children after ins-talling CCTV cameras in 20 school, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has initiated a plan to install CCTV cameras in all the 579 municipal schools run by it with a budgetary provision of '5 crore in the current year.
SDMC mayor Subhash Arya said that the civic body has already installed CCTV cameras in 20 schools so far to fulfil its commitment to provide fool proof security to students. “All SDMC schools will have CCTV cameras for the purpose,” he said.
According to Mr Arya, civic officials will also monitor CCTV cameras to keep any eye on security of children and also to address issues related with qualitative delivery of primary education.
“A monitoring team will be constituted in every zone and the SDMC offici-als at the headquarters wi-ll supervise security from the control room at the civic centre,” he added.
The move to install the CCTV cameras has come after 5-year-old student Ankit died after he fell in a septic tank at the SDMC school in Kapashera area on January 27. An amount of '1 lakh will be spent on installation of CCTV cameras in a school. The SDMC has earmarked an amount of '.5 crore for this during financial year 2016-17.
