High Court Puts Check on School Admissions

High Court Puts Check on School Admissions

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday restrained some CBSE schools in the city from admitting new students to standard XI for academic year 2007-08 without first admitting students of class X of their own schools to the XI standard.

First Bench, headed by Chief Justice A P shah, which granted the Interim injunction on a write petition from ‘Concerned Citizens Committee,’ also ordered issuance of notices to Human Resources Development Ministry, CBSE secretary and CBSE joint secretary – southern region, returnable by April 18

S Anandalakshmy, convenor of the petitioner-organization, has sought a directive to ensure that students of class X in CBSE schools could get admission to class XI in their school to the subject groups of their choice.

She prayed the court to direct the State and the Central governments to implement a ruling of the Supreme Court Delivered in 1995 in the Cambridge School vs Payal Gupta case. She said that according to the apex court ruling any school denying admission to its own class X student to class XI was illegal

Provisional admissions were given even before the standard X board examinations were written by the students, she said. The procedure adopted by some CBSE schools in Chennai rejecting continuation of admission to standard XI to their own students, based on ‘arbitrarily’ decided cut off marks was an irregular procedure, the petitioner contended.

High Court Puts Check on School Admissions

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