Schools violate admission norms, DoE yet to take action
New Delhi: A Right to Information (RTI) application filed recently by RTI activist Mohit Goel has revealed that even though the Directorate of Education (DoE) had received numerous complaints regarding the violation of admission norms by schools, it has failed to take any action against the violating schools. The RTI appeal has revealed that even though the DoE stipulates admission norms, most schools are freely able to have their own way regarding the admission procedure for schools. The DoE had last year let off most schools without any form of penalty even though it had received numerous complaints. This year too, the DoE several complaints from parents regarding schools that had been violating admission norms have been received by the DoE but no action has yet been taken. The violating schools had been sent show-cause notices by the DoE last year but most of them had failed to reply to them. It had been clarified by Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely that schools were n...