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PIL against allotment/use of schools sites in violation of DMP / for enforcement of DMP equal access neighbourhood school system, in continuation of substantive engagements since 2000, filed in December 2003 in view of imminent orders in simplistic PIL and discourse on education Bill (allowed on 27/10/2004 with directions for rectification of violations in 12 weeks)

Prior engagements (since 2000): inclusive of illustrated report on violations with suggestions for implementing DMP equal access neighbourhood school system (June 2001), response to s.11A Public Notice of 16/09/2002, response to Standing Parliamentary Committee public notice of 22/06/2003, etc > enumerated in annexure in NCMP-DMP Note of June 2004

Violation challenged: mis-allotment / misuse of school sites in Vasant Kunj, infringing DMP equal access neighbourhood school system rights of local students and residents in all sections of the community

Petitioners: MPISG through its planner, Rangpuri Pahari Vidyarthi Evam Abhibhavak Manch through its Convenor Hoti Lal, Rajinder Singh r/o Malakpur Kohi, Shiv Narayan r/o Mahipalpur, Prabha Chand r/o Vasant Kunj, Badri Prasad r/o Masudpur Dairy | Respondents: DDA, MoUD, GNCTD, MCD, Police (Traffic) | Counsel for the petitioners: Ravi Shankar

Core issue: Land allotment conditions help operationalize the equitable benefit purpose of land policy by which land was compulsorily acquired in Delhi for development according Plan. Accordingly, conditions about type of school, local enrolment and free seats help operationalize Master Plan provisions for equal access neighbourhood schooling, which cannot be compromised, irrespective of the price charged for allotment. Use of school sites in violation of approved layout plan and Master Plan standards for space for buildings, parking, etc, leads to up-market schools in excess of what local demand can sustain. Schools tap city-wide market in violation, at cost of residential amenity, of local enrolment provisions. In the resultant exclusion due to commercialization, the poor among local students are worst affected as free seats' conditions are flouted with even greater impunity. This, in turn, makes for violations in government schools, burdened with enrolment in excess of and space short of standards and resultant environment not at all conducive to quality learning. Inequity in education cannot be removed by charity in residual resource space. It requires equitable access to resources, primarily space, for schooling - more so when inequitable use of school sites is illegal.

Cause of action: Imminent orders in simplistic free-seats PIL and discourse, for new education Bill, about some common-school-system ideas short of existing provisions

| MPISG PIL (15/12/2003) | Rejoinder (03/04/2004) | Order of 27/10/2004 | non-compliance > Note to Parliamentary Standing Committee (05/01/2005) | Petitions to President (19/01/2005 onwards, forwarded to GNCTD) | Discussion with schools: note (08/02/2005) | MPISG Intervention in schools' petitions against GNCTD directive arising from order of 21/01/04 in Social Jurist PIL (28/02/2005) | Petition to Rajya Sabha to not proceed with the Education Bill / exclude Delhi from its purview (03/03/2005) | Public Notice response on DMP2021 proposals for school education (04/07/2005) | Intervention in Social Jurist PIL, reopened for further directions (23/08/2005)

17/12/2003: MPISG PIL First listing: Notice issued

  • | 20/01/2004: Free seats order in Social Jurist PIL | 04/02/2004: Letter pointing out relief to GD Goenka school in Vasant Kunj against demolition till end of academic session in context of court matters seeking postponement of Pushta clearance till after exams

04/02/2004: Second listing: Order: "It is matter of great surprise that despite process being served, neither the reply is filed nor the counsel for anyone has chosen to remain present. Hence we direct Vice Chairman DDA, Secretary MoUD, Chief Secretary GNCT Delhi, Commissioner MCD and Joint Commissioner (Traffic) shall personally remain present if the reply is not filed on the next date, i.e., 25.02.04".

  • | 17/02/2004: Letters to protest GNCTD "negotiating" free seats with violator schools and "policy" to allow farmhouse parties against misuse-fee | 18/02/2004: Letters to respondents to ask about buses, free seats, etc, in Pushta resettlement as well as for postponement of further demolitions till exams against payment of misuse-fee with offer to collect / contribute | 19/02/2004: DDA counter-affidavit saying it "shall separately file affidavit relating to allotments" | 19/02/2004: MCD affidavit claiming "very limited role" and seeking liberty to file "additional affidavit as and when required and/or called upon" | 24/02/2004: MoUD short affidavit of seeking liberty to file "para-wise detailed affidavit at a later stage" | 24/02/2004: Delhi Police (Traffic) short affidavit replying to paragraphs concerning it

25/02/2004: Third listing: Matter did not reach (GNCTD had not filed reply)

  • | 26/02/2004: GNCTD counter-affidavit describing its illegal policies for "essentiality certificates" and "upgradation permissions" | 03/03/2004: Letter of to respondents to protest MCD proposal to classify schools as public purpose / utility / commercial | 09/04/2004: eml communication to Social Jurist to urge restraint in campaigning for free-seats outside the context of DMP | 22/04/2004: Inspection (DDA had not filed separate "affidavit relating to allotments") | 27/04/2004: GNCTD order to schools for 20% free seats for BPL students (instead of 25% for EWS) 03/04/2004: MPISG Rejoinder pointing out failure of respondents' replies to answer the petitions, inconsistencies within and among replies, etc, and continuing initiatives contrary to DMP, viz, GNCTD attempt to "negotiate" the law with violators (letter, etc, of 17/02/2004) and MCD initiative to legitimise commercialisation of education in property tax regime (letter, etc, of 03/03/2004) | 04/05/2004: Suggestion for compliance of free seats order for progressive implementation of DMP CSS, sent to respondents, officials / groups leading the education bill discussions, etc

05/05/2004: Fourth listing: Matter adjourned

  • | 13/05/2004: GNCTD public notice in Social Jurist appeal matter on admission by lottery inviting views on affidavit on admission tests, criteria for "Neighbourhood School", etc | 17/05/2004: Letter to respondents and Social Jurist to request that they bring to the attention of the court the fact of MPISG PIL / statutory DMP provisions | 18/05/2004: MCD offer of meritorious students from its schools to help private schools fill "quota" | 13/06/2004: Letter to former PM VP Singh urging reconsideration of the simplistic demand for 25% free seats in his rally call | 16/06/2004: NCMP-DMP note arguing for DMP equal access neighbourhood school system as NCMP imperative | 23/06/2004: Letter to protest downsizing of DMP provisions by education Bill, etc, with reference to news reports about GNCTD-MoHRD ideas (forwarded by President's Secretariat to Secretary MoHRD for appropriate action) | 25/06/2004: Letters to LG and PM with reference to news reports about their appreciation of GNCTD's illusory compliance of free-seats order > NCMP-DMP minder (facilities) (has links to documents relating to NCMP-DMP engagements during June-October 2004)

05/07/2004: Fifth listing: Matter did not reach

  • | 07/07/2004: Letter to respondents and others to question imminent eviction from Lal Khet near Vasant Kunj to Bawana on grounds, among others, of the free-seats business (later forwarded by President, NAC, CVC) | 24/07/2004: Letter to respondents and schools proposing a meeting | 28/07/2004: Letter / police complaint about demolition without notice of a school (forwarded by President's Secretariat | 04/08/2004: Letter to respondents and schools about meeting | 22/08/2004: Letter to MoUD with reference to news reports of 19/08/04 about sale of building constructed on charitable hospital site "charitable hospital" in Vasant Kunj, of 20/08/2004 about decision to accept Escort's offer (in Social Jurist free-beds PIL) of 50 crores in lieu, of 21/08/2004 about proposal to auction school sites to get rid of free-seats condition | 08/09/2004: News reports of GNCTD plans to "rationalize" through mergers and closures and DDA plans to reduce standards, allow nursery schools in homes, etc

08/09/2004: Sixth listing: Order: "At p.55 of the petition Annexure-P/3 (colly) the petitioner has pointed out details of the plots and their use at the present juncture. According to the Respondent DDA there is provision for Nursery Schools (nos.40), Primary Schools (nos.20), High Schools (nos.30) in the Vasant Kunj sectors A, B, C and D as per the Master Plan and such a provision has been made. However, reading p.55 we feel an answer has to be given by the DDA in detail. List the matter on 27/10/2004". (NB: Annexure-P/3 (colly) has MPISG letter of 04/08/2001 (in reply to DDA Planning Deptt letter about MPISG's illustrated report of June 2001 on schools in Vasant Kunj), including enclosure (p.55) with plot-wise mis-use, and DDA reply of 26/09/2001 saying the same has been forwarded for necessary action to Lands Deptt. The annexure is also referred to in Rejoinder to point out that DDA reply was, nevertheless, deposed by an officer (architect) of DDA's Planning Deptt without reference to action by Lands Deptt on this communication of 2001)

  • | News reports of 09/09/2004 about GNCTD plans for "mobile schools" for the poor and show-cause notices to 81 schools about free-seats, of 11/09/2004 about DSIDC porta-cabins for schools for the poor, of 13/09/2004 about show cause notices to 56 schools about free-seats, of 15/09/2004 about DDA plans to recommend de-recognition of 2 schools for free-seats failure... | DMP education concerns raised in responses to s.11A Public Notice of 18/09/2004 for "regularising" IT Park on riverbed | News reports of 16/10/2004 about High Court directing personal appearance of secretaries for failure to consider Escorts offer, of 18/10/2004 of health camp for the poor at NAC offices and of GNCTD plans for enrolment drives with NGOS, of 20/10/2004 about MCD plans to "rationalize" by closing and merging schools, of 22/10/2004 about DDA decision to reduce standards for schools, etc > MPISG letter of 24/10/2004 for hearing of Public Notice of IT Park, especially in view of no reply having been filed in MPISG PIL as per court order of 08/09/2004 | Communication of 24-26/10/2004 about Social Jurist admissions / "neighbourhood schools" PIL | Copy of DDA "detailed reply" provided to the petitioners' counsel at 3 PM on 26/10/2004, vehemently denying any violation, annexing dim copies of hand-written inspection reports and notices about misuse, claiming allotments were "made as per the layout plan but upgradation of school in violation of Master Plan norms has been done" by GNCTD and, therefore, DDA has issued - to schools - "notices to show cause to discontinue the misuse or breach within 30 days failing which the allotment shall be cancelled and the lease shall be determined"

27/10/2004: Seventh listing: Petitions allowed: "It is true that in the matter it is pointed out by the learned counsel for the petitioner that in fact some parcels of land indicated in the lay-out plans as for the use as Nursery Schools are being used as integrated schools. On behalf of the Education Department, it is stated that only those schools which meet with the norms have been granted permission for upgradation. The learned counsel for Delhi Development Authority (for short "DDA") submitted that no permission has been obtained from the DDA. It is clear that when a layout plan has been prepared, any variation thereon must be according to the law. If any change is required to be made in such a plan, then only DDA can take appropriate action. In such a situation, it is for the Education Department to move the DDA for making necessary changes in the layout plan. So far as the other violators are concerned, it is pointed out on behalf of the DDA that show cause notices have been issued to the persons who have violated the conditions and it is assured that action will be taken against such violators in accordance with law after considering their replies. Let the action be taken within a period of 12 weeks. With this direction the petition is disposed off."

  • | 28/10/2004: Goenka school to face demolition | 29/10/2004: NPSC wants civic body representation (about lower property tax and the parking charges) | 29/10/2004: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a national agenda: Arjun Singh (use of cess resources) | 01/11/2004: Pvt help for schools' health (decision to privatise maintenance of 1000 govt schools) | 03/11/2004: Admissions not a lottery: DPS (private-schools' affidavit in Social Jurist admissions / "neighbourhood schools" PIL) | 04/11/2004: Property tax: Two classes for schools (third category - fee more than Rs 1,200 - done away with, because of fears that schools would pass on the burden to parents) | 05/11/2004Govt plans health insurance for people below poverty line (scheme, brainchild of UDM, to be funded through a corpus fund of Rs 400-500 crore by charging market rate from private hospitals allotted land at concessional rates by DDA and L&DO) | 05/11/2004: PIB Release: Joint Task Force For Health And Tourism To Examine Issues Relating To Medical Tourism | 05/11/2004: Sports school at Bawana | 05/11/2004: Delhi street kids to get set for UNICEF mission (become roving puppeteers to teach safe sex, promote AIDS awareness, gender equality and sensitivity to truck drivers, etc) | 06/11/2004 No uniforms for MCD schools yet | 06/11/2004: Monsoon magic: Schools join forest dept for a green lesson (Land on the banks of the Yamuna was given to the forest department for ''greening'' which it promptly turned over to the children) | 06/11/2004: Schools keep reserved seats vacant till HC order (action committee - a body representing Delhi's private schools - had asked Union HRD minister Arjun Singh for allowing classes for the weaker sections in the evenings); Students pay for teachers in Delhi schools (in government-run schools, because of shortage of teachers) | 06/11/2004: Hospitals breach contract, get away | 06/11/2004: Hospitals can pay and be free of obligations | 07/11/2004: Demand for Public Notice for proposal to "regularise" DMP violation by hospitals/ include health insurance in DMP to allow use of penalties for it (reiterated, 23/12/2004) | 08/11/2004: Fortis hospital inaugurated (by Union Defence Minister) | 08/11/2004: Education dept to appoint dy. directors (as appellate authority for complaints about 20% quota) | 08/11/2004: NIEPA on kids' admissions: Avoid rat-race up to Class X (Social Jurist admission-by-lottery case) | 08/11/2004: Grim winter for MCD school students: no tenders for uniforms | 09/11/2004: Sonia prescribes 5-pt agenda for the girl child (Tenth Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture, hinting education cess replication to primary health cess) | 10/11/2004: Schools owe MCD Rs 57 crore in property tax | 10/11/2004: Health reforms on anvil: Sonia (NAC has submitted a detailed blueprint) | 11/11/2004: Hospitals dumping biomedical waste,issued notices | 12/11/2004: Playschools draw new patterns to fleece money | 13/11/2004: Now disabled kids to get free education | 15/11/204: President reads poetry to MCD schoolchildren | 15/11/2004: Delhi Govt schools to get computer labs by March, 2005 | 15/11/2004: Outdated Delhi law blocks new private schools | 15/11/2004: Government hospitals told to clean up mess | 16/11/2004: Soon, easier route for new schools | 16/11/2004: HC prod works, Govt orders disabled-friendly schools | 17/11/2004: Nursery interview no better than lottery, says A-G | 17/11/2004: Vision India 2005: Students speak strategy at IHC | 18/11/2004: CM seeks tips on healthcare in NCR | 18/11/2004: New website on school students | 19/11/2004: Centre weighs Escorts offer to pay land price | 19/11/2004: 1,100 patients per bed in India, says Apollo Group Chairman | 19/11/2004: ISO goes to school | 19/11/2004: From next year, check your kids' school performance on the net | 19/11/2004: Education dept needs a course in computers | 22/11/2004: Centre favours neighbourhood schools | 22/11/2004: Branson, Bilimoria to visit Delhi for charity | 22/11/2004: MCD furore over plastic cabins for schools | 23/11/2004: Uproarious scenes at DDA meet over school plots | 23/11/2004: Running schools, cause or business? | 23.11.04: L-G for review of auction proposal | 24/11/2004: Implement mid-day meal scheme by Jan 2005 | 24/11/2004: HC asks Centre for fund details (ICDS) | 24/11/2004: School building dedicated | 25/11/2004: Delhi school order for Aptech | 26/11/2004: DDA tightens plot allotments | 03/12/2004: Mid-day meal: Recipe for disaster | 03/12/2004: Shramdaan to cleanse Yamuna | 04/12/2004: Schoolkids in Delhi high on US painkiller Oxycontino | 04/12/2004: MCD teacher molests 8-yr girl, arrested | 07/12/2004: Pioneer: Now Govt to grade hospitals | 08/12/2004: Don't miss what homeless children saw through their lens | 08/12/2004: Lovely suspends vice-principal of Govt school after visit | 08/12/2004: Sheila's cyber dream misses deadline | 08/12/2004: Demand for disposal of IT Park Public Notice | 09/12/2004: Vans can ferry kids now | 09/12/2004: Opposition blasts Congress over school jersey issue | 14/12/2004: Education cess, STT to make up shortfall? | 15/12/2004: 80 kids ill after meal at school | 17/12/2004: IIT tells slum school to shift out | 18/12/2004: Now, MCD to build nature cure hospital | 18/12/2004: Flouting norms, MCD sets up hospital | 18/12/2004: Give priority to health care | 18/12/2004: Lovely rapped over transfer of schoolteachers | 21/12/2004: City students to help streetkids | 24/12/2004: Meals in MCD schools but children still malnourished | 24/12/2004: No jerseys for municipal students this winter

28/12/2004: Letter for compliance of Order of 27/10/2004 to DDA and GNCTD

  • | 31/12/2004: CBSE to bring erring schools to book | 31/12/2004: Delhi hospitals are ill-equipped | 01/01/2005: Street kids form health cooperative | 01/01/2005: MCD to introduce new building law, heritage plan (and public-private partnership in primary education and healthcare) | 01-03/01/2005: eml communicationsabout proposed NIEPA seminar on Education in Cities | 04/01/2005: Social Jurist affidavit in admission-by-lottery matter (downsizing neighbourhood school provisions) | 05/01/2005: CGHS hospitals come under CBI scanner | 05/01/2005: More private hospitals approved for Govt. staff | 05/01/2005: Delhi Cabinet to extend health scheme to NCR

05/01/2005: Note to Parliamentary Standing Committee (at inspection visit in Vasant Kunj) about non-compliance of court orders

  • | 06/01/2005: Suggestion to schools for collective initiative | 10/01/2005: Kids part of anti-violence campaign | 10/01/2005: MCD school parks in bad state | 11/01/2005: More beds at hospital to tackle patient rush | 11/01/2005: Sheila on need of speciality hospitals for women | 12/01/2005: Adopt a school, MCD tells corporates, NGOs | 14/01/2005: L-G rules out probe into allotment of land | 16/01/2005: Street kids to highlight AIDS issues | 16/01/2005: Letter to GNCTD

19/01/2005: Petition to President > Republic Day discussion and letters of 26/01/2005, 27/01/2005, 01/02/2005, 02/02/2005 (forwarded to Chief Secretary GNCTD)

  • | 19/01/2005: Misplaced green zeal... (parking outside schools) | 21/01/2005: Social Jurist article - Right to Education and challenges before media | 22/01/2005: South, south-west dist schools junk food-free: Education Dept | 23/01/2005: Social Jurist contempt notice about DC office in school in Bawana | 24/01/2005: Better facilities in NCR may decongest Delhi | 27/01/2005: MCD swallows on Rs 2-cr tag (mid-day meals) | 28/01/2005: Income affidavits out of BPL kids' way (Delhi education minister reiterating the 20% BPL approach) | 29/01/2005Social Jurist invitation to Public Hearing | 31/01/2005: No school to go to, kids turning ragpickers: NGO | 31/01/2005Social Jurist report / press release | 01/02/2005: Ill-timed training irks govt teachers | 02/02/2005: Cellphones banned in 1600 govt schools | 03/02/2005: 30 schools challenge underprivileged quota in HC | 03/02/2005: Letter to GNCTD and DDA wrt news report of free-seats litigation> mail-list post | 04/02/2005: Letter to MoHRD and Planning Commission | 05-06/02/2005: Meetings: Mahipalpur, Vasant Kunj SCWA, Rangpuri Pahari | 05/02/2005: Lovely trip: Schools need more surprises | 05/02/2005: Shut down government offices in schools | 05/02/2005: Universal primary education a must | 06/02/2005: Hindu: N: Delhi has second lowest disabled population | 07/02/2005: Nod for one more hospital, but when will doors open? > post - GNCTD hospital near TVB habitat school (in erstwhile primary school) in green belt | 07/02/2005: Response to GNCTD letter of 04/02/2005

08/02/2005: Vasant Kunj Schools meeting: discussion note

  • 09/02/2005: Letter to GNCTD and DDA wrt news report about court stay on GNCTD 20% BPL directive > post | Police complaints / requests for s.34A investigation of so-called free school in DPS, TVB habitat studies college running in illegal school building with faculty providing expert ideas for infringing DMP rights, etc | 09/01/2005: Social Jurist communication about website and consultation on education bill | 09/02/2005: Education department gets Golden Icon Award | 13/02/2005: NDTV show on free-seats16/02/2005: Now keep tab on govt services (social audit commissioned by GNCTD to Bangalore firm) | 15/02/2005: Social Jurist communication about contemplating intervention | 17/02/2005: Schoolbus rams jhuggi, 1 dead (GD Goenka school bus crashes into jhuggi) | 17/02/2005: Donation racket unearthed in school (Bal Bharti Public School, housing office of forum of schools that is petitioner in matter challenging free-seats directive) | 17/02/2005: Soon, Intel@learn to be introduced in city schools (MoU under SSA for 13 GNCTD schools) | 18/02/2005: Beware of development at heritage cost say kids (INTACH-Express campaign) | 19/02/2005: Notices to Delhi govt, MCD over poor facilities in schools (Social Jurist PIL) | 19/02/2005: Panel to look into sexual harassment cases in schools | 19/02/2005: Schools for orphans likely: MCD | 22/02/2005: Reservations in school: Govt, DDA get notice (Social Jurist intervention in support of free-seats directive) | 23/02/2005: Road named after Kaifi Azmi (at DPS afternoon school, with musahira attended by PM-wife, speaker, etc) | 24/02/2005: Eco-meet 2005 inaugurated (by CM at Bal Bhawan) | 24/02/2005: Speed governors - notice to school (GD Goenka asked to repair tampered governors, buses not impounded to save inconvenience to children) | 25/02/2005: Factor 3 for schools with high fee slab (revised property tax) | 26/02/2005: Private Schools to hike fees (due to MCD parking misuse charge and revised property tax) | 26/02/2005: Conference on inclusive education (to sensitise policy makers on the need for disabled children-centric education policies) | 27/02/2005: Bill on education is just a ploy - Abu Baker (2-day national consultation organised by NAFRE, NIEPA director quoted) | 28/02/2005: Govt aided schools under scrutiny for misuse of funds

28/02/2005: MPISG intervention filed in schools' petitions against GNCTD free seats directive (mentioned on 02/03/2005 when the matter was adjourned to 21/03/2005; copy handed over to counsel appearing for GNCTD Education Directorate).

01/03/2005: Letter to MCD wrt GNCTD forwarding dated 23/02/2005 of letter of 03/02/2005 to DDA, MCD and Education Director for appropriate action, ATR directly to representationist, etc (to point out, among other things, inconsistency with law of its misuse-charges / property tax proposals for schools)

03/03/2005: Petition to Rajya Sabha praying that education bill not be proceeded with till clarification of preference for central law, architecture based on scheme inferior to that guaranteed by another central law, etc, and, if proceeded with, for exemption of Delhi from its purview in view of conflict with Delhi Development Act as well as constitutional processes underway.

  • | 02/03/2005: Inclusive schools catering mainly to soft disabilities: Researcher | 02/03/2005: Hospital visit upsets Sheila | 03/03/2005: No fear, Lovely positive on appraisal day (45% spending (out of 405 cr budget outlay) for education, no additional classrooms (target of 1100 semi-pucca), 268 porta cabins (target of 768), 6 new buildings under construction (target of 8), computer education not started (in 116 schools targeted), vocational education program not taken off, sanitation privatised in 94 schools, security privatised in 15, etc) | 03/03/2005: 37 Assembly segments sans govt hospitals | 04/03/05: Lovely's team leaves CM with crossed bows | 04/03/2005: All Delhi schools declared no-plastic-zones (also proposal to do away with clearances for construction of school buildings, etc) | 05/03/2005: Time again for fee hike in schools | 05/03/2005: HC prods MCD to fill primary teachers posts | 05/03/2005: Free treatment for the poor - HC wants a govt status report | 05/03/2005: MCD property tax public notice (reiterating commercial use factor for schools) | 06/03/2005: 1.7 lakh students without teachers | 06/03/2005: MCD draws up poor progress report at HC | 06/03/2005: Mother's meals for MCD (NGO mid-day-meal kitchen) | 08/03/2005: Manav Sthali music dance fest at national stadium (inaugurated by CM)| 09/03/2005: GNCTD Education Director's Public Notice about 20% free seats | 09/03/2005: Letter to GNCTD Education Director about his Public Notice with reference to GNCTD forwarding, court order, matters in court, etc | 09/03/2005: Invitation to NIEPA Colloquium (Prof Marie McAndrew on Structured Initiatives to Foster Common Schooling - an overview of western experiences) | 10/03/2005: reports of Aaj Tak expose of petty corruption in GNCTD | 10/03/2005: GNCTD Notice Inviting Tenders for outsourcing sanitation services in 104 schools | 11/03/2005: reports of MCD reiterating misuse-charge policy for farmhouses | 11/03/2005: Management hijack - from government school to boarding institution | 11/03/2005: Audit unearths Rs 10 crore scam in computer education | 14/03/05: City schools take to rainwater harvesting | 15/03/2005: Protest against child labour | 17/03/2005: Govt hospitals asked to refer poor to private | 17/03/2005: MCD eases restrictions on farmhouses | 17/03/2005: Talk to us about policies: Streetkids | 19/03/2005: Govt school timings to be extended by 1 hour: DoE | 19/03/2005: Forget IITs, now KVs up for export

21/03/2005: Hearing of schools' matters: account

  • | 22/03/2005: Letter to GNCTD Education Director with reference to court hearing | 22/03/2005: Education Plan for special kids | 22/03/2005: School fee hike on the cards | 23/03/2005: reports about minister's statement / status report on 20% free seats tabled in the Assembly | 23/03/2005: India-Pakistan brotherhood at DPS International | 24/03/2005: More schools, classrooms, computer literacy on cards (GNCTD budget) | 25/03/2005: Rights panel for children cleared | 28/03/2005: Action plan aims to include disabled students | 28/03/2005: Social Jurist Helpline for free-seats | 30/03/2005: DDA plans a therapy park near Safdarjung Hospital | 03/04/2005: DPS educates slum children | 03/04/2005: Slumdwellers access MCD health centre on telephone | 04/04/2005: MCD to implement IT education project in seven schools | 06/04/2005: Directorate of Education gave excess grants (to some aided schools) | 07/04/2005: Bihar child labourer turns tutor in slums | 07/04/2005: Students earn peer counsellor title | 09/04/2005: DDA wants govt watchdogs in schools (GNCTD representatives on management as per lease conditions) | 09/05/2005: Automatic kitchen for mid-day meals opened | 13/04/2005: Wanted: More than 3,000 teachers for govt schools | 13/04/2005: No takers for govt's parateachers scheme | 13/04/2005: Lok Nayak Hospital to become super speciality soon: Shastri | 14/04/2005: HC pulls up Govt for vacant posts of teachers, principals | 14/04/2005: Classrooms to don a new look | 15/04/2005: Scholarships for poor students

15/04/2005: Hearing of schools' matters: Stay on free seats directive extended to all schools > account

  • | 16/04/2005: Supreme Court notice on bio-medical waste disposal / Hospitals organise meet to set guidelines | 17/04/2005: DPS Annual Day (slum shiksha kendra) | 17/04/2005: Education: Vajpayee admits mistake | 19/04/2005: Cess mess | 19/04/2005: Business: Apollo Hospitals to issue GDRs | 19/04/2005: Uniform guidelines draft for quality health care drawn up | 20/04/2005: Global classrooms becoming a reality | 20/04/2005: UN facelift plan for NDMC schools | 20/04/2005: Total health care under one roof | 20/04/2005: NGO starts helpline for kids denied admission | 22/04/2005: Parents on dharna sound govt over school quota | 22/04/2005: Lighten load of students: Kalam | 26/04/2005: CVC noose tightens on NGOs | 02/05/2005: Parliamentary panel asks DDA to examine feasibility of providing medical insurance by creating a corpus from auction of hospital sites > news report | Government releases additional assistance for mid-day meal scheme and Planning Commission recommends extension of SSA to class 10 > PIB release | Letter wrt DMP2021 Public Notice | 03/05/2005: Legal bid to acquire VIMHANS land | 03/05/2005: Govt. fails to take action against erring hospitals | 04/05/2005: HC pulls up Govt board on freeship clause for schools (Social Jurist separate matter) | 04/05/2005: School founder statue unveiled (by LG) | 04/05/2005: Apollo centre at Supreme Court | 04/05/2005: Hospital in place of commercial centre in south Delhi (Ambedkar Nagar) | 05/05/2005: Slum children turn self-tutors at Manzil | 05/05/2005: MCD to surprise school kitchens, test mid-day fare | 05/05/2005: School chairman fined for felling trees | 05/05/2005: Pakistani surgeons on `mission advancement'

05/05/2005: Hearing of schools' matters: Union government directed to reply on schools' contentions about utilisation of cess and SSI funds and Delhi government directed to consider schools' proposal for separate-shift-separate-standard schooling in lieu of free seats > account

  • 06/05/2005: Hospitals must admit emergency cases | 06/05/2005: Nine hospitals fined for flouting fire safety norms | 07/05/2005: Hospitals to get larger plots: DDA (proposal approved for consideration also of FDI) | 07/05/2005: CBSE ask schools to focus on outdoor activities | 08/05/2005: Slum kids learn tenets of democracy | 09/05/2005: Mothers join students at special school | 10/05/2005: News reports of CAG report on allotment of land to educational institutions | Letter to L-G, as administrator of both Delhi School Education Act and Delhi Development Act | 14/05/2005: Hindu: Mobile schools proposed to spread education

16/05/2005: Hearing of schools' matters: With permission, sought wrt to letter to LG, copies of application handed over to counsel for parties for consideration of MPISG proposal (for progressive implementation of DMP common school system by rectification of illegalities through decentralized processes set out in 74th Constitutional Amendment and draft Education Bills) > account

  • | 19/05/2005: L-G seeks status report from DDA (about Failure to hand over land for welfare schemes) | 20/05/2005: NIFT to outfit NDMC schoolkids | 24/05/2005: NGO wants school to be derecognised | 25/05/2005: Govt schools reform: More power to principals | 26/05/2005: MCD looks at pvt help for health facelift

26/05/2005: Hearing of schools' matters: adjourned to 19 July

  • | 27/05/2005: Govt prods DDA on land for hospital | 27/05/2005: Mid-summer, MCD's pool plans for kids | 28/05/2005: Vans to schools will soon run on commercial license | 08/06/05: MCD hospitals to work out online system | 09/06/05: UK trust helps 500 child labourers get a new life | 10/06/2005: Letter to Secretary MoHRD, with copy to President, Lieutenant Governor, Rajya Sabha Secretary and Chairman Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Urban Development wrt Order of 26/05/2005 (found on the web) impleading UoI through Secretary MoUD, in continuation of communications of June 2004, also forwarded by President | 12/06/2005: Child activists call for focus on rights | 12/06/2005: Students get platform to showcase work | 13/06/2005: Balloons catch fire at India Gate (child rights' event) | 13/06/2005: Free check-up for scribes | 13/06/2005: Inculcating values in education | 14/06/2005: Six held, drive to educate balloon vendors begins | 18/06/2005: Apollo Hospital gets US accreditation | 18/06/2005: Workshop imparts knowledge to kids | 04/07/2005: MPISG response to Public Notice on sub-chapter on schools in DMP-2021 | 05/07/2005: Union Ministry officials say DDA favours pvt hospitals even as they violate freeship norms | 07/07/2005: Centre favours ICDS universalisation | 10/07/2005: Shiksha Abhiyan eludes children | 10/07/2005: Apollo Hospital raises $65 m through GDRs | 11/07/2005: A school without students: MCD has no opening date | 15/07/2005: Compulsory Education Bill: no consensus; CABE Committee meeting > Letter to draw attention to sub-judice matters

15/07/2005: Hearing of schools' matters: adjourned after some counsel asked for re-listing of the part-heard matters before previous judge > account wrt CABE

  • | 18/07/2005: DSIDC cabins better than MCD cabins | 18/07/2005: Institutional land set to become costly | 20/07/2005: Girls in govt schools may get free books, uniform soon

22/07/2005: Hearing of schools' matter: adjourned, with confusion about bench to be listed before > account

  • | 22/07/2005: TV report on shortage of schools in bawana > post | 22/07/2005: Supreme Court pulls up Delhi Government regarding PDS / BPL cards | 23/07/2005: Dismal state of affairs of sports in Govt. schools | 24/07/2005: Govt removes 11 lakh names from PDS list | 24/07/2005: On rehab course, kids join AIDS cause | 27/07/2005: New initiative to convert classrooms into multimedia hubs | 28/07/2005: Schools asked to accept kids with special needs | 28/07/2005: Probe ordered into schools fund fraud | 28/07/2005: Funds meant for schools unused | 30/07/2005: President calls for compulsory education | 30/07/2005: Lovely plans to make govt schools hi-tech | 30/07/2005: CAL in MCD schools soon | 30/07/2005: Another honour for Apollo | 02/08/2005: DDA bends rules for chosen institutions (free beds) | 02/07/2005: New menu for Delhi school children | 02/07/2005: 70 computers for 2 lakh students | 06/08/2005: The Hindu launches NIE in Delhi | 03/08/2005: Now, schools to get their own mental health centres | 09/08/2005: Now school kids get designer uniform | 11/09/2005: Students take a close look at poverty | 12/08/2005: DPS students in trouble over farmhouse party | 12/08/2005: Supreme Court judgment against quota in private unaided colleges | 16/08/2005: Free education for all girls: CM | 17/08/2005: Notices issued over closure of primary school | 18/08/2005: School uniforms : Agency files FIR over bulk purchase of material; Cong, BJP lock horns | 18/08/2005: All-party meeting to discuss quota issue (colleges)

18/08/2005: Hearing of Social Jurist matter by Division Bench and Hearing of schools' matters by single judge: Orders passed in both > account

  • | 19/08/2005: HC summons DDA, MCD chiefs over un-aided schools | 19/08/2005: Left parties for compulsory education, employment; SC quota scrap in colleges baseless, says CPI; Concern over commercialisation of education | 22/08/2005: High Court summons high officials in private school fee issue | 23/08/2005: 5 MCD schools to be upgraded | 23/08/2005: Supporting common school system (NAFRE public hearing)

23/08/2005: Intervention in Social Jurist PIL

  • | 24/08/2005: New hospitals to be quake resistant | 24/08/2005: Parties favour law for social justice in education (new law for colleges in view of Supreme Court ruling against quota)

25/08/2005: Hearing of Social Jurist matter: Order: "CM Nos.10352/2005 and 10403/2005: The applications are allowed to the extent that they would be heard in this case, whenever necessary. W.P.(C) 3156/2002: Vice Chairman, DDA, Director of Education, and Land and Development Officer are present. Ms. Ahlawat, learned counsel for Director of Education has submitted an affidavit accompanied by three charts showing the position of compliance or default by various unaided but recognised schools to whom land was allotted by DDA and LandDO at concessional rates. A copy of this affidavit and the attached charts be supplied to all concerned parties through their counsel who are required to obtain these copies from the chamber of Ms.Ahlawat. Ms.Ahlawat is also required to submit a list of defaulters who have not complied with the stipulation of the lease deeds or allotment letters, with a copy to Mr.Rakesh Khanna, advocate or any other counsel representing these defaulters who are requiredto file their reply within one week. It shall, meanwhile, be open to the Action Committee of the schools to hold any meeting with the DDA Vice Chairman, Director of Education, LandDO and Mr.Ashok Agarwal, advocate for exploring a via media for compliance of the order passed by this Court. All the connected writ petitions pending before the Writ Court and filed by members of the Action Committee be sent to this Court on the next date. List on 13.9.2005" > account

  • 26/08/2005: 294 schools fail to comply | 26/08/2005: 'Sack MCD chief over school funds'; BJP alleges siphoning of MCD funds | 28/08/2005: Quota: law in winter session likely (for colleges) | 29/08/2005: Portraying street-children with dignity | 30/08/2005: Portable cabins for students studying on land under dispute | 02/09/2005: Differences over use of education cess sorted out | 04/09/2005: Educate girls for progress, says Arjun | 05/09/2005: HC asks schools to come clear on freeship (news item about hearing that did not happen!) | 06/09/2005: Municipal teachers keep waiting for guests to celebrate their day | 08/09/2005: Apollo Hospital in the dock for overcharging | 08/09/2005: What you did in I-T, do in health, education (UN Report) | 09/09/2005: Cherie Blair at Mother's International School | 09/09/2005: Blair announces £10 million for exchange programmes | 09/09/2005: CABE adopts New Curriculum Framework | expert panel for nursery admissions directed in other Social Jurist matter | 12/09/2005: Efforts on to tackle schooling demand | 13/09/2005: CBSE tie-up for unaided schools made easier

13/09/2005: Hearing of Social Jurist matter: account

  • 14/09/2005: You paid the cess, Govt made a mess | 14/09/2005: High Court notice to schools; HC threatens to close private schools; Quota: High Level meet to plan implementation of order | 14/09/2005: Leaking roofs, pigs in playground | 15/09/2005: Govt plans adopt-a-school programme

Gita Dewan Verma | MPISG Planner | updated till 15.09.2005

az-plan links:

  • eebill mailing list: The Constitution of India, committed to universalisation of education through a directive principle, was amended to make free and compulsory school education a right. The amendment requires a law to be enacted, draft Bill for which was prepared and twice modified in 2003. In the discourse about the draft bill as well as in recent PIL on free seats for the poor concern for a common school system has been amply reiterated. But holistic solutions suggested in existing law, such as in the equal access neighbourhood school provisions of Delhi Master Plan, although being sought by communities, continue to be disregarded in the discourse. This list is for discussion premised on already existing law, so that the proposed education law improves upon them.
  • NCMP-DMP minder (facilities section; suspended): DMP gives legal strength to commitment to equal access neighbourhood schools that draft education Bill 2003 and compliance of court order in PIL for free seats have been diluting. PIL on free beds in hospitals, likewise, is confusing equity basis of DMP for charity perspective. NCMP commitments called for progressive implementation of DMP schema for social facilities (also as framework for optimally absorbing resources committed without central law for education). nstead, statutory DMP provisions for equal and efficient access for all to healthcare and education have been all but dismantled. Illegal allotments and use of facility sites stand condoned by continuing disregard of efforts since 2000, including PIL of 2003, against them. DMP's holistic concept of equal access stands reduced to beggarly prayer for freebies for the poorest, with definition of both opened to negotiations, as a result of simplistic PIL. The decks stand cleared for those with their hearts set on providing noble services in global markets - and decisions to reduce or do away with conditions, even sites, needed to ensure access for citizens are unlawfully but freely being taken.