The Delhi High Court today ruled that the Right to Education Act is not applicable to nursery admissions. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain added that the ongoing nursery admission process in the national capital will remain unaffected. Upholding the validity of two government notifications that gave powers to private unaided schools to formulate their own criteria, the bench disposed of a PIL seeking quashing of the notifications issued by the Union Human Resources Development, HRD Ministry and the Directorate of Education. The bench, however, asked the HRD Ministry to consider amending the Act to include the admission of pre-school classes, under the legislation, to extend the benefits to children below the age of six.
The PIL had been filed by an NGO, which had challenged the two notifications issued by the HRD Ministry and the Delhi government