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the guidelines within a week." The court's order came on an application filed by the Social Jurists, a lawyers group, pointing that the schools were exploiting the situation against public interest and violating the lease conditions. Social Jurists's counsel Ashok Aggarwal had submitted that the government's inaction amounted to violation of fundamental rights of poor students, universal declaration of human rights (1948) and the 1989 UN convention on rights of the child. On the last date of hearing, the high court had asked the Delhi Government to investigate whether 1,500 such schools were complying with the order. (Indian Express 22.4.04) 23 rd April Court endorses NCERT’s model syllabus (11) NEW DELHI, APRIL 22. The Supreme Court today endorsed a model syllabus prepared by the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT), introducing environmental studies as a compulsory subject from class one to 12. A Bench consisting of Justice N. Santosh Hegde and Justice B. P. Singh, while giving its approval to the NCERT's proposal, appointed it as the nodal agency to monitor its implementation. The Bench was informed that the NCERT prepared the syllabus after consulting over 500 institutions, State governments, the Central Pollution Control Board, experts and NGOs. Students from class one to eight will be taught about a clean environment as part of social science, while classes nine to 12 will have environmental study as an additional regular subject, the marks for which will be counted in the final examination. It was submitted that no State government had objected to the model syllabus. The Bench, however, said States could submit their suggestions to the court by July 13. In December last, the court had directed all the States and educational agencies to introduce environment as a compulsory subject in all classes up to the higher secondary level from the academic year 2004- 05. (The Hindu 23.4.04) NCERT syllabus on environment study approved (11) New Delhi, April 22: The model syllabus for environment studies drawn up by the National Council for Education Research and Training was approved by the Supreme Court on Thursday. Environment studies has been made a compulsory subject upto Class 12 by the Court. A bench comprising Justice N. Santosh Hegde and Justice B.P. Sirigh, gave the approval to the model syllabus drawn up by NCERT. The bench also appointed the NCERT as the nodal agency to monitor the implementation of environment education upto the higher secondary level across the country. After giving its approval to the model syllabus, the court also asked the states to put forward suggestions, if any, for improving the model syllabus. They can come up with suggestions by July 13, the court directed. The NCERT has put together the syllabus after consulting over 500 institutions, state governments, non-governmental organisations and experts from the field. Environment would be taught as part of the general science subject upto Class 8. For students of Classes 9 to 12, environment will be an independent additional subject. (Indian Express 23.4.04) 24 th April Paper leak traced to CBSE office (11) New Delhi: The crime branch of Delhi Police on Friday named Hemant Sharma, a CBSE employee, as the 'source' who leaked the CBSE-PMT paper to Ranjeet Verma, the main accused in the paper leak case. The police on Friday also arrested a manager with a coaching institute, Sachdeva New FT College, for buying the question papers from Sharma. Sharma, who worked as a computer assistant with the CBSE controller of examinations, Pavneh Kumar, was arrested on Thursday afternoon. "The accused was a good technician, but he used his skills for a destructive purpose," said CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly. (times of India 24.4.04) 25 th April Education week goes by unnoticed, thanks to polls (11) New Delhi, April 24: Unesco's worldwide education-for-all week ended on Saturday, with the human resources development ministry making what some would say was just token fuss over it. In part, they blame the elections. The "national-level" function to mark the Unesco week was held here on Friday. Union elementary education secretary Kumud Bansal was the chief guest. Had
HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi not been out campaigning, he might have inaugurated the week, officials speculate. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan — India's own programme for universalisation of primary education — happens to be Mr Joshi's pet project. Only last November, the ministry hosted an international Unesco conference successfully lobbied for a big $500 million loan from a World Bank-led consortium to help finance the campaign for the next four years. At Friday's function, the ministry said, 400 children participated in art, creative writing and other competitions. Earlier in the week, a voluntary organisation — taking its cue from the real-life elections — organised children into an exercise in which they cast "votes for education" in street-side ballot boxes. (Asian Age 25.4.04) 27 th April 20% seats to be reserved for poor in city’s private schools (11) New Delhi, April 26: Now it will be mandatory for all private schools in the capital to give 20 per cent reservation to the economically weaker sections people at the time of admission in all classes. However, those schools, who were allotted land at throw away price by the DDA, will have to give admission to poor students as per the agreement. This . decision of the government will be notified in a day or two. While confirming this decision, Delhi chief minister Ms Sheila Dikshit told The Asian Age, "a decision has been taken following the high court order. Now it will be mandatory for private schools in the capital to give 20 per cent reservation to the economically weaker sections people at the time of admission. It will be applicable from the coming academic session, the city’s chief minister added. Recently, the Delhi high court gave strong directions to the Delhi government to publish in newspapers the list of un-aided private schools, who failed to discharge the obligation of admitting a fixed percentage of children from economically weaker sections. (Asian Age 27.4.04) 28 th April Curb commercialisation of education, says SC (11) New Delhi: Striving to curb commercialisation of education by private schools in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to verify whether the educational institutions were complying with various conditions, such as imparting free education to poor students imposed on them, while allotting them land at concessional rates A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice V N Khare, Justices S B Sinha and S H Kapadia by a 2:1 majority judgment dismissed the appeals by almost all the public schools, thus challenging a high court order which had empowered the government to intervene in cases of schools' excess fees. In its October 1998 judgment, the HC had provided a methodology for fixing of fees, in which consultation with representatives of the parents was mandatory. However, the court had said that if thereafter the government found the fees to be excessive, it could intervene in the matter and the schools could approach a statutory committee for redressal of their grievances. The majority verdict by Khare and Kapadia ordered the education director to check the land allotment letters of all public schools and inquire whether they were admitting underprivileged students. (Times of India 28.4.040) 30 th April Parents want schools to refund donations (11) New Delhi, April 29: Welcoming the Supreme Court's guidelines to prevent commercialisation of education as an "appropriate step to save the parents," Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh on Thursday demanded immediate withdrawal of fee hike by schools in the capital. "Details of fee hike during the last five years should be called for and checked and arbitrary increase be arranged to be refunded to all the aggrieved parents," Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh president Vijender Kumar Gupta said in a release here. The Supreme Court had on Tuesday set stringent guidelines to prevent commercialisation of education by private schools in Delhi and directed the authorities to verify whether schools were adhering to the conditions linked to allotment of land to them at concessional rates by the government. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court had dismissed the petitions filed by almost all public schools in Delhi, challenging a Delhi high court order asking the government to intervene in cases of excess charging of fees by them. (Asian Age 30.4.04)
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