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Delhi High Court Tells Private Schools To Make Records Public
The Delhi High Court has directed private schools in the Capital to make records, including admission details, available in public domain - an order that will force schools to become more transparent in their functioning.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher passed the order on a petition filed by the Delhi State Public Schools Management Association, which had challenged the Central Information Commission's (CIC) December 2010 order directing schools to make their records public in both English and Hindi.
The court upheld the CIC order and ruled that the schools will be covered under the Right to Information Act.
It also directed them to make their budgetary allocation available in the public domain. Justice Shakdher made it clear that schools will have to make public their admission details, such as the number of seats in all classes, total vacancies, number of seats under the economically weaker section (EWS) quota and total applications received under this category.
The schools have been directed to update the information on their notice boards every week and to put up the notice boards at a place where people outside the school premises can also read the information.
The details will also have to be uploaded on the Directorate of Education's (DoE) website.
The court has also directed the DoE to upload other information, such as management details of schools, on its website.
Information on who runs a particular school was earlier accessible to only top DoE officials, but now it would be known even to the general public.
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