Allow EWS student to attend class without demanding fee: HC to school
The Hindu
The Delhi High Court has directed The Mother’s International School in the city to allow a student from the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category to repeat Class XI in the academic year 2023-2024 without demanding any fee, till the next date of hearing.
The Delhi High Court has directed a city school to allow a student from the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category to repeat Class XI in the academic year 2023-2024 without demanding any fee, till the next date of hearing.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, while issuing a notice to the Mother’s International School, passed an interim order directing it to readmit the student who had “failed in the academic year 2022-2023” and allow him to attend classes.
The student, who was seeking readmission, was asked to deposit a fee of ₹57,300 for the first quarter. He has been studying in the school since 2011-12 when he had taken admission in the pre-primary class.
The student, through his father, moved the court by filing a writ petition. Ashok Agarwal, a senior Delhi-based lawyer who represented the student in the case, said that the demand of the school asking him to deposit fees for repeat year was “wholly illegal”, since the petitioner had been studying throughout in the EWS category. “He was not required to pay any fee and is entitled to continue studies up to Class XII in the school,” Mr. Agarwal said.
“Interim directions are required because classes have already started and keeping him out of school even for a day would cause serious injury to the student,” argued Mr. Agarwal.
Mr. Agarwal added that The Mother’s International School is situated on land allotted by the government and therefore the institution is obliged by law to provide free education to students from EWS category all the way up to Class XII.
“Besides, not qualifying Class XI does not change this legal mandate,” Mr. Agarwal said.
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