The UT schooling division has issued a show-cause discover to St Kabir Public School in Sector 26 for publishing ads for the 2022-2023 educational session admissions whereas claiming to be a Sikh minority college.

In the discover issued by the UT district schooling officer (DEO), it has been identified that the division had filed a letter patent attraction (LPA) in opposition to a Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket order in 2017 within the Department of School Education, Chandigarh administration , vs National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions and others case.

The court docket had granted keep in opposition to the orders issued by the fee whereby St Kabir Public School was given minority standing.

“Since the matter is sub-judice, the advertisement that the school is a Sikh minority school is misleading,” the DEO added within the letter. Sent on April 26, the letter had sought the varsity’s response by April 29.

According to the varsity’s administrator Gurpreet Bakshi, they’ve despatched a letter to the division in response.

As per the varsity’s rationalization, the commercial was issued for Class 11 admissions for which there is no such thing as a minority quota. The college added that for the aim of nursery admissions, it’s particularly talked about that no minority quota admissions shall be made in compliance with the excessive court docket order.

The college additional added that the show-cause discover was issued on flawed and incomplete information, because the judgment of the HC’s single bench on March 20, 2020, had not been stayed. The college additionally added that the division was not competent to problem the show-cause discover, as even the writ petition had not been filed by them.

UT DEO Prabhjot Kaur mentioned they’d acquired the varsity’s response and have been going over it with the legislation officer earlier than taking additional motion in opposition to the varsity.

The UT schooling division has been cracking down on non-public unaided minority colleges for not reserving seats for EWS college students. The division had sought information from all of the 20 minority colleges within the metropolis on whether or not 15% reservation for EWS college students was being offered. Most colleges haven’t offered this information and the division plans to ship show-cause notices to them.

The division had additionally despatched a show-cause discover to Vivek High School in Sector 38 after HC had quashed the order declaring the varsity as a minority academic establishment and the varsity was discovered not adhering to directions relating to EWS reservations.