Expressing dissatisfaction with the reluctance of school managements to eliminate the practice of interviewing kids and parents for admissions, the Delhi High Court, on Monday, constituted a five-member committee to evolve an alternative policy for ending the 'pernicious' practice.
The committe is headed by headed by CBSE chairperson Ashok Ganguly; it has been asked to formulate an alternative policy to eliminate the system of interviews, ensure transparency in granting of admissions and dispense with the system of discretionary quota of managements.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain asked the committee to file its recommendations within six weeks and posted the matter for further hearing to October 17.
"In view of the fact that no concrete proposal is being brought forward by unaided school managements towards elimination of the system of interviews, transparency in admissions and culling out the discretionary quota of managements, we are constituting the committee," the Bench said in a terse order while rejecting the submissions sought to be made by the various school managements.
Under the umbrella of a joint action committee of unaided school managements, the schools had over the past several hearings, come out with their own suggestions for persisting with the interview system.
However, the Bench, which had been monitoring the issue for the past one year and directed a ban on such interviews, was not impressed with the alternative modalities suggested by the managements.
The schools had shown general reluctance in dispensing with the practice of interviewing kids/parents at the time of nursery admissions and foregoing their discretionary powers in allotting the admissions.
When the matter came up hearing on Monday, counsels for the mangements wanted to put forth their views on the matter vis-a-vis the interview system but the Bench appeared to be in no mood to hear them.
Observing that no concrete proposals had come from the managements, the Bench then went on to constitute a committee to be headed by Ganguly with four other academicians.
