DDA wants 2 schools derecognised for failing to provide freeship

Staff Reporter/ New Delhi

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has asked the Delhi Government to derecognise two schools in the Capital for their failure to provide 25 per cent freeship to poor students as per their allotment clause.

Recording the same facts in an affidavit filed before the division bench of Chief Justice BC Patel and Justice BD Ahmed of the Delhi High Court, the DDA stated that appropriate action as per the law was being initiated against Green Fields Public School (Dilshad Garden) and Vikas Education Society (Vikas Puri).

The DDA has issued show cause notices to 131 schools, while action has already been initiated against the two schools for flouting the allotment conditions , on which the land was given at concessional rates to the schools .

The lease/allotment of both the schools has been cancelled, while eviction proceedings have already been initiated against Green Fields School. The Vikas Education Society, however, has obtained a stay order from the High Court. For operation of eviction against it, the DDA has asked the Delhi Government to apprise the court of the same and vacate the stay orders.

The court had been seized of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Social Jurist, an NGO which had sought court's intervention to take action against all such schools which were failing to provided education to poor students as required under their allotment deal.

On July 9, the court had directed the DDA to file a compliance report in this matter.

The DDA had been regularly seeking information from the 131 schools which were sent notices.

The Delhi Government had earlier issued notices to 56 schools and the Land And Development Officer of the Centre had informed on the previous date of hearing that notices had been shot to six among the nine erring schools under their jurisdiction, which were found to be violating the freeship conditions