The Directorate of Education has decided to gather data from students who belong to the primary and middle school in the city to provide admissions to Delhi Govt. Schools in classes VI and IX.
According to the newly made process, the heads of MCD schools, government aided and recognized unaided primary schools will be required to fill out a 12-point data form on all their students in classes V and VIII.
“Onus on MCD, govt schools: Government primary education in Delhi is predominantly under the MCDs, which run around 1,700 schools. MCD schools do not teach beyond Class V; lakhs of children have to be transferred to government schools thereafter. The process requires close coordination between the two bodies — which are often at loggerheads with each other — to ensure that no child is dropped out of the school system.”
The details to be recorded are gender, the medium of instruction, parents’ names, address, mobile number, Aadhaar number (if available), bank account details (if available) and religion.
The last date to submit it to the DoE is January 25, following which a mapping exercise will be carried out at the zonal level, linking these ‘feeder’ schools and students to the appropriate ‘parent’ government school, based on proximity, gender, and medium of instruction.
“Every year, we gather this information from the U-DISE (Unified District Information System for Education). This year, this data was not uploaded by any school due to a change in the format which is why we are collecting it directly from schools,” a DoE official said.
Once the data is collected, a designated teacher from the ‘parent school’ will visit each ‘feeder school’ on or before March 15 and distribute “welcome sheets” with details of the parent school and listing documents required to the students concerned. Students will not be admitted by the parent school if the school fails to upload their information.
Students will also be invited to their respective ‘parent school’ to familiarise them with the new campus before the admission process ends on April 16.