Khushi Gupta
Published on: April 13, 2022 at 19:24 IST
Delhi High Court dismissed dozens of Applications challenging the Six-year condition of Admission to Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) First Class.
One Judge, Justice Rekha Palli, argued that once a wise and well-thought-out decision had been made by experts that the Age of Admission to Class I should be six years, the Court could not and should not interfere.
“Merely because some inconvenience is being caused to the Petitioners who will have to wait for the next academic year to apply for Admission to the Kendriya Vidyalaya’s, cannot be a Ground to Direct the Kendriya Vidyalayas to make an exception for its schools located in Delhi. Any such direction will have a rippling effect on the Age Criteria applicable to Kendriya Vidyalayas schools situated all across the country including states wherein the National Education Policy, 2020 has been implemented and consequently, the minimum age for admission to Class-I has been fixed as 6 years in all schools in the said States,” the Court said.
These Appeals challenged the age-old condition on the grounds that they were Illegal, Discriminatory, Unfair and Violated Sections 14, 21 and 21A of the Constitution.
“Not only will the syllabus have to be re-worked, even otherwise, admission of 5-year-old children with children who could be almost 7 years old, would be a highly undesirable situation. The balance of the convenience also, therefore, tilts more in the favour of the Respondents than that of the Petitioners,” the Court said.
The Petitions were thus dismissed.
