<p>Parents applying for nursery admissions in the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category are finding the whole process an ordeal with bleak chances to get their wards admitted to private schools in the 2012-2013 academic year. <br /><br /></p>.<p>If the maze of documents to be submitted with the form was bad enough, some schools also demand that birth certificates should bear the child's name and parents should bring ‘proof’ that they don't have PAN cards.<br /><br />And in some cases schools are not acknowledging receipt of the admission forms, adding to the worries of EWS parents. “When I went to submit my child's form with the relevant documents, the school authorities refused to accept its as the child's name was not written on the birth certificate.To give a name on the birth certificate is not mandatory. After much convincing they accepted it but said that they cannot confirm if it will be processed or not,” said Shazia (name changed), who applied at Delhi Public School (DPS), Mathura Road. <br /><br />A single parent, Shazia is trying to get her three-year-old son admitted under the EWS quota. She has been running around to collect all the documents required by different schools.<br /><br />“When I applied in Modern School, Humayun Road they wanted an EWS certificate. I had its receipt which they rejected, while Sardar Patel Vidyalaya accepted my EWS receipt. When I told them that my certificate will come any day as I had recently applied for it, they refused to listen stating that the school did not permit taking EWS receipts,” she added. The EWS certificate takes from 21 days to one month to process. Shazia applied for it on December 14.<br /><br />Harrowing experience<br />When contacted, an official handling admission-related queries at the school said if any parent had a problem they should meet the school authorities directly. “Such cases can be solved,” he said. But Shazia claims that the school authorities do not even permit her to enter the premises.<br /><br />Madangeer, a construction labourer, has been making the rounds of Sachdeva Public School, Dwarka since the last three days in the hope that the demands for more documentation will end.<br /><br />“On the first day they asked me to give an affidavit saying that I live within the school's mentioned distance criteria.I gave them the residence proof which they rejected. The next day they asked me to give all my bank details signed by the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM). Now they are asking me to give a proof of not having a PAN card, certified by the SDM, when I have already given them my income certificate,” said Madangeer.<br /><br />No mention of proof<br />The Directorate of Education (DoE) guidelines on the documents to be submitted for the EWS category mention nothing about `proof' of not having a PAN card.<br /><br />“How can an SDM certify anything about a PAN card. If it is certified by an official of the Income Tax department, it still makes sense,” said Khagesh Jha of Social Jurist, a non-governmental organisation. <br /><br />According to Jha, a number of schools were making it difficult for the EWS category parents by not even acknowledging the forms submitted by them. He said such cases had come to the his organisation from schools like Maxfort, Heritage and Ryan International.<br /></p>
<p>Parents applying for nursery admissions in the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category are finding the whole process an ordeal with bleak chances to get their wards admitted to private schools in the 2012-2013 academic year. <br /><br /></p>.<p>If the maze of documents to be submitted with the form was bad enough, some schools also demand that birth certificates should bear the child's name and parents should bring ‘proof’ that they don't have PAN cards.<br /><br />And in some cases schools are not acknowledging receipt of the admission forms, adding to the worries of EWS parents. “When I went to submit my child's form with the relevant documents, the school authorities refused to accept its as the child's name was not written on the birth certificate.To give a name on the birth certificate is not mandatory. After much convincing they accepted it but said that they cannot confirm if it will be processed or not,” said Shazia (name changed), who applied at Delhi Public School (DPS), Mathura Road. <br /><br />A single parent, Shazia is trying to get her three-year-old son admitted under the EWS quota. She has been running around to collect all the documents required by different schools.<br /><br />“When I applied in Modern School, Humayun Road they wanted an EWS certificate. I had its receipt which they rejected, while Sardar Patel Vidyalaya accepted my EWS receipt. When I told them that my certificate will come any day as I had recently applied for it, they refused to listen stating that the school did not permit taking EWS receipts,” she added. The EWS certificate takes from 21 days to one month to process. Shazia applied for it on December 14.<br /><br />Harrowing experience<br />When contacted, an official handling admission-related queries at the school said if any parent had a problem they should meet the school authorities directly. “Such cases can be solved,” he said. But Shazia claims that the school authorities do not even permit her to enter the premises.<br /><br />Madangeer, a construction labourer, has been making the rounds of Sachdeva Public School, Dwarka since the last three days in the hope that the demands for more documentation will end.<br /><br />“On the first day they asked me to give an affidavit saying that I live within the school's mentioned distance criteria.I gave them the residence proof which they rejected. The next day they asked me to give all my bank details signed by the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM). Now they are asking me to give a proof of not having a PAN card, certified by the SDM, when I have already given them my income certificate,” said Madangeer.<br /><br />No mention of proof<br />The Directorate of Education (DoE) guidelines on the documents to be submitted for the EWS category mention nothing about `proof' of not having a PAN card.<br /><br />“How can an SDM certify anything about a PAN card. If it is certified by an official of the Income Tax department, it still makes sense,” said Khagesh Jha of Social Jurist, a non-governmental organisation. <br /><br />According to Jha, a number of schools were making it difficult for the EWS category parents by not even acknowledging the forms submitted by them. He said such cases had come to the his organisation from schools like Maxfort, Heritage and Ryan International.<br /></p>
