Primary Education Admission Quota in Delhi's Sanskriti School quashed by Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has ended the quota for bureaucrats in Delhi's Sanskriti School.Refer the following articles first >> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhi-HC-ends-quota-for-bureaucrats-kids-in-Sanskriti-School/articleshow/49696410.cms
and >> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Schools-funding-under-debate/articleshow/49696432.cms
and >> http://www.hindustantimes.com/education/60-quota-for-group-a-officers-kids-in-sanskriti-school-quashed/story-LCIWJUbedYJVz4mJJE0xkI.html
and >> http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/babu-quota-in-delhis-sanskriti-school-like-racial-segregation-says-court-1240829
Till now the admission in the Sanskriti School was for the wards of parents with the following reservations applied: 60% for wards of Group-A Officers bureaucrats, 25% for economically weaker sections, 10% for general, and 5% for staff children.
I have to say the following:-
Sometimes the problem with diverse background students learning together, especially in India, is that there may be discomfort to the so called elite, and not because of their feathers getting ruffled. What is probably being underlooked is that most often than not these so called lower background children have a different type of language (it's not the dialect here, it's the 'kind or type of words' used and the accent as well), many times crass and vulgar, and their behaviour may not be appropriate. Do we not know the quality of many students of Central Schools now? But I will myself correct myself immediately because the talk is about 'Primary Education'. But even then, some of the factor mentioned stays, it has its relevance. Unfortunately, sadly, ironically, the class shows itself, and this is not prejudice on my part.
The politicians who have probably put pressure on the Indian Judiciary to take 'suo motu cognizance' (!) will still not be able to get their wards admitted anyway if it is about merit. Is it about merit? Is it about what? And I shall again remind myself that this is about 'Primary Education' although but there will be some 'spillover', I feel, and therefore, I write.
I feel that two different issues have got mixed up here, and deliberately. Will the lower strata of children will still be able to get admission anyway?
If it is about funding, then the non-desirable funding can stop, and elitism may continue. I am not Brahminical, but some segment may be allowed to be elitist because in this case, they are the children of top sarkari babus who may have a particular type of circle. And let them develop like that, what's the problem? If the court talks about merit only, then of course it will make sense. But the court has not talked of merit. The court has mentioned some 'philosophical' points and they have been skewedly applied. The court has mentioned constitutional provisions of equality and Right To Education. I am saying philosophical because Sanskriti School was formed with a different frame of mind or mindset. The Court has mentioned Ganga-jamuni tehzeeb. Why are these parameters being applied now? Why did the Court not get them applied earlier? Sudden Emotional Blackmail. The Court knew about that all along. Why suddenly this mannerism talk? And therefore, I said that politicians have put pressure on the Delhi Judiciary. Where the School Administration went wrong probably is the funding source. So maybe the School can be pulled up for that. That would be one way to go about it, probably the right way. But now the entire ethos behind the formation of the School will go. It's the funding source that did it then, aye? But then the funding by State Departments is the prerogative of the State Departments. Why did the Court not object then? This is thus a case of a kind of blackmail. First you donate, then you say, "see, see, they accepted donations, haww!, Right To Education implement, Right To Education must implement here. Haww".
I am no idiot. I know also for very sure that Power Play must have gone through in the funding as well, I mean bureaucrats themselves must have got the funding sanctioned. Ha ha ha. So I am contradicting myself? No, I am not. If I am a doodh-se-dhulaa then it does not imply that bureaucrats also are. Well.. But then I am saying that yes, a segregation is important because in our Society there is more muck than not. If educated parents feel that their wards should not be badly influenced by crude characters then they are completey right. 100%. They want their wards to be nurtured in a protected and secure environment. They have the right. The Court has actually taken away this right. The Court has been a feudal Lord. The Court has cited mannerisms, the Court has overlooked the 'reality in Society'. The Court has mentioned Society, the Court has mentioned differences, and the Court has hammered the Sanskriti School for many of the ills in Society as if these ills were started by the School, the Court has failed to note that the School was started actually for the protected education of the so called elite, the School did not start the differences, the School only wanted the top bureaucrats' children to be away from the crassness.
What the Court has done is a 'colonising' thing. The Court has forcefully made someone occupy who did not possess the locus standii in the first place. What am I saying? Who did not possess the locus standii? I am saying that the lower class or whoever the Court has ruled in favour of does not possess the locus standii. The Court has forcefully changed the very ethos, I just mentioned, of the formation of the School.
The Right To Education is being forcefully applied by jealousy of miffed 'themselves-cutting-corners' parents and jealousy of miffed 'themselves-forever-back-door-applicants' parents. Angry Jack Fruits! Ohh..!
The right way to go about it would be to take suo motu cognizance and then go for a Constitutional Amendment, if possible. I say 'if possible' because you should not overlook that the School was left to be run ('left' to be run?, I don't know) to the Civil Services Society.
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| Sanskriti School picture courtesy ndtv.com website. |
