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Home » News » Politics » ‘Delhi School Model’ Not Up to Mark? NCPCR Flags Infra,
Teachers Issues; AAP Demands Similar Survey of BJP-run MCD Schools
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‘DELHI SCHOOL MODEL’ NOT UP TO MARK? NCPCR FLAGS INFRA, TEACHERS ISSUES; AAP
DEMANDS SIMILAR SURVEY OF BJP-RUN MCD SCHOOLS

By: Pallavi Ghosh

CNN-News18

Last Updated: September 04, 2022, 19:18 IST

New Delhi, India

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and deputy CM Manish Sisodia at the launch of the
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Armed Forces Preparatory School. (Twitter)


THE NCPCR HAS PREPARED A REPORT BASED ON ITS OWN FINDINGS AND WITH INPUTS FROM
THE NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SURVEY (NAS) 2021 FOR CLASS 8 CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL
COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING (NCERT)

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Education in schools is now the prime battling point between the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In fact, the AAP has made health
and education, or rather the ‘Delhi Model or Schools’, its flagship programme
and part of its electoral slogan in the state elections, the latest being in
Gujarat. However, a recent report by the National Commission for Protection of
Child Rights (NCPCR) accessed by News18 shows that not everything is fine as far
as Delhi schools run by the state government are concerned.

The NCPCR has prepared a report based on its own findings and with inputs from
the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 for Class 8 conducted by the National
Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

The NCPCR had received a complaint regarding the Desh Ke Mentor programme
introduced by the Government of NCT of Delhi, alleging that as per the scheme,
children and unknown people are brought together for the purpose of education
and career guidance. This may expose children to probable safety and security
risks.

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A team of NCPCR officials led by the Chairperson then visited the government
schools in Delhi and found a host of issues.

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WHAT AAP SAYS

The AAP has always denied all such allegations, saying a wrong picture was being
projected and that the Centre was tweaking the figures to run down a successful
scheme of the Delhi government to score political points.

Responding to the NCPCR report, AAP MLA Atishi said, “We would like to invite
the NCPCR Chairman to come and visit some of our Delhi government schools and
see for themselves how they have been transformed. The NCPCR should also do a
report on BJP-ruled MCD schools which have poor infrastructure, unusable
toilets, shortage of rooms and poor NAS performance."

NOT ENOUGH TEACHERS

Besides discrepancies with respect to the infrastructure and other aspects of
the functioning, it was also highlighted that posts of Principal/Head Master are
vacant in schools.



Moreover, as per data available on UDISE+ Dashboard for 2020-21, there are a
total of 1,027 schools under the Department of Education, of which only 203
schools have Headmaster/acting Headmaster/Principal (nine schools have
Headmaster, three schools have acting Headmaster and 191 school have Principal).


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The RTE Act, 2009 stated there shall be a full-time teacher outlining for
Classes 6 to 8, where admission of children is above 100.

A LESSON TO LEARN

The National Achievement Survey (NAS) is administered in schools to students of
Classes 3, 5, 8 and 9.

As per this report, Delhi has scored below the national average for subjects
namely maths, science and social science. The Delhi government schools have done
well only in language, the report states. In maths, for example, the
better-performing states are Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Bihar, Chandigarh,
Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.







In science, schools in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan have done much
better than Delhi. In social science again, schools in Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have fared much better than the students of Delhi
schools, as per the NAS report.

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Also, as per the report, Delhi has 1,027 schools run by the state government and
these are from the pre-primary to elementary level and the schools in Delhi are
just 1.3% of the total state governments and UTs in schools if you compare it to
other states and union territories, which is much lower.

EWS ISSUES

To make the elementary education more inclusive, the Right To Education (RTE)
Act gave schools the responsibility to reserve 25% of the seats in primary or
pre-primary level (whichever is the entry level for children), for which the
state government reimburses the educational expenses according to the per-child
expenses mandated by the state or actual school fee per child. Here, too, Delhi
government schools have not reached the benchmark, according to the NCPCR
report.







Although Delhi has developed an online system for admissions under this section,
instances of denial of admission to children belonging to the EWS category by
the private schools of Delhi, even after getting selected in the lottery drawn
for admissions, have been noticed.

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ALSO READ | AAP Won’t Allow BJP to Shut a Single School in Delhi: Manish Sisodia

It has come to light that in academic year 2021-2022, approximate seats allotted
for EWS category children in Delhi private schools were 40,000, wherein
admissions were given to only 28,000 children. Further, in academic year
2022-2023, the approximate seats allotted to EWS category children in Delhi
private schools were 33,000, wherein admissions were given to around 27,000
children.

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last updated:September 04, 2022, 19:18 IST



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