Updated on: Wednesday, December 30, 2015
More than 800 schools are yet to upload their Nursery Admission criteria. The admissions for Nursery class are scheduled to take place from January 1.
The Directorate of Education (DOE), Delhi government had set December 25 as the final deadline for the schools to update their website with the admission details. According to newspaper reports, 886 schools out of the total 1,737 had not uploaded their criteria on the DOE website.
Earlier on December 23, the Delhi government had warned private schools to clearly notify admission criteria by December 25. DOE had asked unaided recognised schools to develop and adopt clear, well defined, equitable, non-discriminatory, unambiguous and transparent criteria for admissions.
Prior to that the schools also missed the December 20 deadline. A toal of 1,735 schools had failed to upload the admissions details, after which the deadline was extended to December 25. "It is regretted to note that all schools have not uploaded their criteria. Therefore, the heads of all the remaining private unaided recognised schools are hereby directed to upload their criteria along with points by December 25 positively," the letter sent to defaulter schools by DoE said.
The last date for submitting the applications is January 22, the first list will be displayed on February 15, followed by another list on February 29.