Plea in SC challenges Delhi HC order dismissing PIL on banning screening of children for nursery admissions

New Delhi, Sep 19 (PTI) A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Delhi High Court order refusing to direct the lieutenant governor to give assent to or return a 2015 Bill which proposed a ban on screening children for nursery admissions.

The high court had on July 3 dismissed a PIL filed by NGO ‘Social Jurist’, saying it cannot interfere with the legislative procedure and direct the LG to either give assent to the Delhi School Education (Amendment) Bill, 2015 or return it.

The organisation, through advocate Ashok Agarwal, has filed the appeal in the top court saying the child-friendly bill “banning the screening procedure in nursery admission in schools has been hanging between the Central and the Delhi government for the last 7 years without any justification and against the public interest and opposed to public policy".