Delhi puts a cap on readmission of the students who fail

Delhi puts a cap on readmission of the students who fail

On Friday, Delhi High Court issued a stay order on the directive issued by the Delhi Government’s education department which puts a cap on the readmission of the students who have failed the exams. The education department has put a cap on the number of attempts to clear classes IX to XII. “Not that students have failed to learn, but teachers have failed to teach,” Justice Rajiv Shakdher remarked as he referred to the Delhi government’s Directorate of Education’s circular which said that students cannot be re-admitted to the school if they fail in a class for consecutive two years. Based on the circular, a Delhi school has denied admission to the two minors.Ashok Agarwal, minor’s advocate said that the circular is also a hurdle in the way of continuous education of the students as guaranteed to them by Articles 14, 21 and 21A of the Constitution of India.The judge said that the issue needs deeper consideration and listed the matter for further consideration on December 16.The father of the minors is a scrap collector and challenged the constitutional validity of the DoE’s April 2014 and August 2018 circulars which imposed a cap on the number of attempts to clear classes IX-XII.Agarwal argued that heads of government schools, on the strength of the circulars, “invariably denied re-admission to hundreds of students who failed twice in classes IX to XII, which is illegal and arbitrary and therefore the operation of the same be stayed”.

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