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Project Description
We are generating and utilizing funds for the implementation of the 10% reservation clause (earlier 20%).The Delhi Government stipulated that private schools, who obtained land at a very nominal rate, have to enroll children from Economically Weaker Section (EWS) of the society into these schools. 10% of seats, therefore, should be reserved for these children.
Asha Delhi supports this project as this enables usage of a provision within the law – leading to a systemic correction, even of the mindsets of the fee paying parents, bringing in social harmony.
This rule got buried, not known to the public and was being violated by the school since 1962, until 2004 when Dr Nalini Juneja (Senior Fellow NUEPA) discovered this clause, and Mr Ashok Agrawal of social activists' group (Social Jurists) filed a PIL in court regarding this. The court battle is still going on, but as for now, the Delhi High Court has favoured the Private Schools and reduced the reservation to 15% seats.
For the academic session for 2005-06, Parivartan, a Citizens group based in Delhi, promoting The usage of the Right to Information Act, 2005, enrolled 40 children living in Seemapuri into private schools and found that these children did extremely well in the school. The Right to Information Act was used as a tool to facilitate the admissions.
Asha Delhi and Parivartan, collaborated to expand the program to other areas of the city. We focused on East & North East Area supervisors work in their defined area, identify children for enrollment, and work with the schools for enrollment.
As the children might face difficulties with the teaching, the projects will be providing tuition classes in the evening to enable the children to keep up with the teaching in the school.
The supervisors perform the following activities:
Documentation work
- Enrolling children
- Monitoring their progress
- Interacting with the government officers to get the program implemented
- Interacting with the school to get the children enrolled.
In the Academic Sessions of 2006-07 & 2007-08, total of 450 children have already benefitted from this clause and a total potential at entry level classes is approximately 5400 children.
Some changes in the processes of getting children admitted in these schools were also changed. The first was the set up of the Free Ship Cell in the Deputy Director Education’s office in each District. Second was to get a Common Admission from clause introduced.
[July 2007]
After seeing the success of the project in the previous two years, this project year we decided to expand the project to more areas in Delhi. Supervisors were identified in South West Districts of Delhi as well.
This year the focus was not only on getting the children admitted to solve a larger systemic problem.
Now, Asha Delhi is collaborating with Pardarshita (another citizen's action group) for admission for the 2008-09 academic session.
Regular Updated are posted on the project website.
Purpose / Goals
Ensuring the effective implementation of 10% clause so that the children coming from economically backward section get their rightful place in the private schools in Delhi.
Organization Description
Asha Delhi is a part of the Asha Organisation founded in 1996. Asha will be training supervisors and expanding the project in collaboration with Pardarshita.
Pardarshita is a non-profit organization. It was registered in December 2005 founded by activists associated with Parivartan. Pardarshita has been formed with the aim of fighting corruption and ensuring transparency and accountability in the Public Governance systems thereby empowering the marginalized sections. The goal of Pardarshita is to spread awareness about Right to Information and empower common people to use the RTI tool to ensure access to his/her rights and entitlements
We trust that education is a critical pre- requisite for socioeconomic changes. Since being citizens of India , education is one of the Fundamental rights available, our motto is to get qualitative education for all the children of the society irrespective of their social status.
We strongly believe that through education socioeconomic changes could be made possible for a developing country like ours.
Office F-221, New Seemapuri, Delhi-110095, Ph: 0091 (0) 11 22356476, 0091 (0) 9899358835, pardarshita_india@yahoo.com, pardarshita@rediffmail.com
www.parivartan.com/Home.asp - parivartan@parivartan.com, parivartan_india@rediffmail.com
Project Type: Formal Schools
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Primary Focus: to go to formal school
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Secondary Focus: children from slums
Area: Urban
Additional Information Funding and support for utilization the Delhi Government 10% reservation clause for economically backward students in Delhi schools.
Asha Munich, Asha LA, Asha Seattle have been funding this project
The clause is directly extracted from the Constitution of India, which reflected in the Master Plans of the cities. Ref paper "Exclusive Schools in Delhi: Their Land and the Law" written by Dr Nalini Juneja, Sr Fellow NUEPA
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