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`Govt rules deprive street children of free education`
Over two lakh street children will be deprived of their fundamental right to free education in the capital if a Delhi school education rule requiring their parents to file affidavit stating exact date of birth of a child is made mandatory, a petition filed in the Delhi High Court has said.
Over two lakh street children will be deprived of their fundamental right to free education in the capital if a Delhi school education rule requiring their parents to file affidavit stating exact date of birth of a child is made mandatory, a petition filed in the Delhi High Court has said.
The petition filed by an NGO seeking exemption of this
provision for 21 such children seeking admission to class X of
National Open School through Lady Noyce Secondary School for
the deaf came up for hearing before a division bench of
Justice Arun Kumar and Justice Arjan Kumar Sikkri recently.
Issuing notices to Union Home Ministry, Union Human Development Ministry, Directorate of Education of Delhi, MCD, NDMC, National Open School and the Lady Noyce Secondary School for the deaf, the bench asked them to file replies to the petition by August 28, the next date of hearing.
Challenging the constitutional and legal validity of such provision of the Delhi school education rules, the petition filed by social jurist, an NGO, through counsel Ashok Aggarwal said these children had no parents with them as they were picked up from the railway station and streets of Delhi.
These children, who have been given shelter by Salaam Balak trust working for the welfare of street children, were fulfilling all the requirements except that of an affidavit from parents, countersigned by a first class magistrate, the petition said.
Bureau Report
Issuing notices to Union Home Ministry, Union Human Development Ministry, Directorate of Education of Delhi, MCD, NDMC, National Open School and the Lady Noyce Secondary School for the deaf, the bench asked them to file replies to the petition by August 28, the next date of hearing.
Challenging the constitutional and legal validity of such provision of the Delhi school education rules, the petition filed by social jurist, an NGO, through counsel Ashok Aggarwal said these children had no parents with them as they were picked up from the railway station and streets of Delhi.
These children, who have been given shelter by Salaam Balak trust working for the welfare of street children, were fulfilling all the requirements except that of an affidavit from parents, countersigned by a first class magistrate, the petition said.
Bureau Report