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MINUTES OF THE GENERAL BODY MEETING HELD AT MANAV STHALI SCHOOL ON 29TH JANUARY, 2014.

Members Present : 1. Mrs. Ameeta Mulla Wattal, Chairperson, Principal, Springdales School, Upper

Ridge Road Junction, Pusa Road, New Delhi. 2. Mrs. Chitra Nakra, Vice Chairperson, Principal, V.V. D.A.V. Public School, D-block,

Vikaspuri, New Delhi 3. Ms. Rekha Sharma, Secretary, Principal, Bal Bharati Public School, Sector-14,

Rohini, Delhi 4. Mrs. Deepika T. Singh, Treasurer, Principal, the Air Force School, Subroto Park,

Delhi Cantt., Delhi 5. Dr. Rajni Kumar, Life Member, C/o Springdales School, Benito Juarez Marg,

Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi 6. Mr. S. K. Bhattacharya, Life Member, BBPSS, Pitampura, Delhi 7. Mr. M.L. Babbar, Life Member, F-127, Sec-41, Noida (NCR) U.P. 8. Mr. Suraj Prakash, Life Member, QU-290B, Chitrakoot Apptt., Pitampura, Delhi 9. Mr. S.L. Jain, Member, Principal, Mahavir Sr. Model School, Sangam Park Extn.,

G.T.K. Road, Opp. Nanak Pio, Gurudwara, New Delhi 10. Ms. Shipra Sarcar, Member, Principal, Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute, Subroto

Park, New Delhi 11. Ms. Mridula Pant, Member, Principal, Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, Ridge

Road, New Delhi 12. Ms. Chetna Saini, Member, Principal, The Banyan Tree School, Lodhi Road, New

Delhi 13. Dr. (Mrs.) Anju Tandon, Member, Principal, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans Mehta

Vidyalaya, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 14. Ms. Minakshi Kushwaha, Member, Principal, Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar,

New Delhi 15. Ms. Suman Kumar, Member, Principal, Bluebells School, Kailash, New Delhi 16. Dr. (Mrs. )M. Kasturi, Member, Principal, Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Rjasthan 17. Ms. Shilpa Bhatnagar, Member, Principal, Bhatnagar International School,

Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 18. Ms. Purnima Mehta, Member, Principal Cambridge School, Budh Nagar, Noida 19. Ms. Jasleen kaur, Member, Principal, Cambridge School, Indirapuram 20. Sr. Janet, Member, Principal, Convent of Jesus and Mary, Bangla Sahib Lane,

New Delhi 21. Ms. Jyoti Gupta, Principal, Member, Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad 22. Mrs. Anita Makkar, Member, Principal, D.A.V. Public School, Sec-14, Gurgaon 23. Ms. Seema Jerath, Member, Principal, DLF Public School, Ghaziabad

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24. Dr. Hemlata S. Mohan, Member, Principal, Delhi Public School, Jharkhand 25. Ms. Meeta Rai, Member, Principal, Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad 26. Mrs. Suman Nath, Member, Principal, Tagore International School, East of

Kailash, New Delhi 27. Dr. (Mrs. )M. Barsaley, Member, Principal, Greenfields Public School, Dilshad

Garden 28. Mrs. Davinderjeet Kaur Dhingra, Member, Principal, Guru Harkishan Public

School, New Delhi 29. Ms. Reema Punj, Member, Principal, Guru Nanak Public School, Punjabi bagh,

New Delhi 30. Sr. Therese Thayameril, Member, Principal, Holy Child Sr. Sec. School, Tagore

Garden, New Delhi 31. Mrs. Sudha Acharya, Member, Principal, ITL Public School, Sector -9, Dwarka,

New Delhi 32. Dr. (Mrs.) Usha Ram Member, Principal, Laxman Public School, Huz Khas, New

Delhi 33. Dr. (Mrs.) Bhawna, Member, Principal, Lovely Public School, Priyadarshini Vihar,

Delhi 34. Mr. L.V. Sehgal, Member, Principal, Bal Bharati Public School, Sir Ganga Ram

Hospital Marg, New Delhi 35. Mr. Ashok Kumar Pandey, Member, Principal, Ahlcon International School,

Mayur Vihar Phase-1, New Delhi 36. Mrs. Anita Wadehra, Member, Principal, Darbari Lal D.A.V. Model School, ND

Block, Pitampura, New Delhi 37. Mr. H.R. Sharma, Member, Principal, C.R.P.F. Public School, PrashantVihar,

Sector-XIV, Rohini, New Delhi 38. Ms. Tripti Mawri, Member, Principal, Delhi Police Public School, B-4, Safdurjung

Enclave, New Delhi -29 39. Mr. Dharmendra Goyal Member, , Delhi Public School, Sec-9, Vasundhara,

Ghaziabad 40. Dr. (Mrs.) Surjeet Kohli, Member, Principal, Guru TeghBahadur 3rd Centenary

Public School, C-Block, Mansarover Garden New Delhi 41. Mrs. Z.M. Siddique Hamdard Public School, Tamilabad, SangamVihar, New Delhi 42. Mrs. Sangeeta Bhatia, Member, Principal, KIIT World School, Zone H-4,

Pitampura, Delhi 43. Mrs. Pratibha Kohli, Member, Principal, Maharaja Agrasen Model School, CD

Block, Pitampura, New Delhi 44. Col. Ashok Kaul, Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Ashok Vihar Phase-III, Delhi 45. Sr. Irene Mathais, Member, Principal, Mater Dei School, Tilak Lane, New Delhi

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46. Bro. Paul C., Member, Secretary, Mount St. Mary’s School. 75, Parade Road, Delhi Cantt., New Delhi

47. Ms. Sanghamitra Ghosh, Member, Principal, The Mother’s International School, New Delhi

48. Dr. Michael Williams, Member, Principal, Dr. Michael Williams, R. K. Puram, New Delhi

49. Ms. Jyoti Arora, Member, Principal, Mount Abu Public School, Sec-5, Pkt-B, Rohini, Delhi

50. Mrs. Alka Kapur, Member, Principal, Modern Public School, Block-BM (Paschimi) Shalimar Bagh, Delhi

51. Mr. Prashant Parashar, Member, Principal, N.K. Bagrodia Public School, Ahinsa Marg, Sec-9, Rohini, Delhi

52. Mrs. Rajni Arora, Member, Principal, Ramjas School, Anand Parvat,New Delhi 53. Mrs. Mohini Bindra, Member, Principal, Ramjas School, Pusa Road, New Delhi 54. Ms. Sarika Arora, Member, Principal, Ramjas Public School, Anand Parbat, New

Delhi 55. Ms. Neeta Rastogi, Member, Principal, Sadhu Vaswani International School for

girls, New Delhi 56. Ms. Anuradha Joshi, Member, Principal, Sardar Patel Vidyala New Delhi 57. Br. M. R. Beddoe, Member, Principal, St. Columba’s school, New Delhi

Leave of absence :

1. Ms. Sukhwant Kaur, Member, Guru Harkishan School, Loni Road. 2. Mrs. Rashmi, Salwan Public School, Gurgaon 3. Ms. Manisha Sharma, Vice Principal, Venkateswar International School 4. Ms. Poornima Narayan, Member, Cambridge School, Shivnivaspuri

The Principal, Mrs. Renu Suri welcomed all the members, followed by a floral welcome to the office bearers, Mrs. Rajni Kumar and other former Chairpersons, Mr. S. K. Bhattacharya, Mr. S. L. Jain, Mr. M.L. Babbar, Mr. Suraj Prakash and Mr. L. V. Sehgal.

The school choir enthralled the members with a wonderful patriotic song wishing for a vibrant new India. The formal proceedings were then taken up by the Chairperson.

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1. TO CONFIRM THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING HELD ON 18TH DECEMBER, 2013 AT SALWAN PUBLIC SCHOOL, GURGAON

The minutes of the meeting of 18th December, 2013 held at Salwan Public School, Gurgaon and circulated on 28th December, 2013 were read and confirmed.

2. TO NOTE AND DISCUSS THE POINTS ARISING OUT OF THE LAST MEETING HELD ON 18TH DECEMBER, 2013. -

The Chairperson informed the members that on the meeting held on the 18th December, members had decided to meet the Lt. Governor on the issue of nursery admissions. However, the same evening the guidelines were issued.

An emergent meeting was held on 19th December, 2013, where all the members felt that the guidelines issued by the Hon’ble Lt. Governor of Delhi were arbitrary and against the provisions of DSEAR’ 73. It was decided to form a Sub Committee to meet the Lt. Governor and also look for legal recourse. Senior members drafted the letter.

The meeting with the Lt. Governor on 22nd December, 2013 was attended by a six member delegation of the Executive of the NPSC which was not very fruitful. He reiterated that it was mandatory that schools would have to abide by the new guidelines. In the subsequent meeting held at Springdales on 23rd December, 2013 attended by 40 members, it was decided that legal recourse was the only option. Mr. Neeraj Kaul was appointed as the legal counsel by the Action Committee after consultation with members of the NPSC executive. Despite a brilliant presentation by Mr. Neeraj Kaul in the case scheduled on 15th January, the prayer for stay was not accepted by the Single Bench. The matter was moved to a Divisional Bench and then subsequently to the Supreme Court. Mr. Harish Salve was appointed by the Action Committee for representing Private Un-aided schools.

On the date of the hearing, the matter was shifted to the 31st January, 14. It has been decided that on the next hearing Mr. Neeraj Kaul would be the legal counsel.

The Chairperson, Mrs. Ameeta Mulla Wattal and Mr. L.V. Sehgal, Principal, Bal Bharati Public School, felt that if there was no relief given by the court on 31stJanuary, the NPSC would convey to the media its point of view as the fight would have to continue. Mrs. Rajni Kumar, Chairperson, Springdales Education

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Society cautioned the members about conveying their opinions as the matter was subjudice.

The Chairperson said that inclusion of challenged children in the EWS/disadvantaged category reduced their chances of admissions thus negating to a great extent the idea of inclusion, she informed members that she had sent letters to various agencies including the Directorate of Education and Hon’ble Minister of Education, Mr. Manish Sisodia informing him of the situation.

3. DISCUSSION ON ANNUAL CONFERENCE, DUTY LIST, INVITATIONS ETC.

The Secretary read out the duty list of the Annual conference and details of the organizing committee.

4. FINALISATION OF DOCUMENT ON RULES AND REGULATIONS OF NPSC -

Mr. L. V. Sehgal presented the documents of Rules and Regulations. He informed the members that the Sub Committee had several meetings and the final draft had been uploaded on the website and requests had been made for suggestions.

Some suggestions had come from some schools and had been incorporated.

All members agreed that it was a very comprehensive paper. He informed that some suggestions were made by Dr. (Mrs.) Rajni Kumar, Mr. Bhattacharya Mr. S. L. Jain, Mrs. Mohini Bindra etc. in the Executive Committee meeting. These were discussed and a few of them were incorporated. Mr. Sehgal mentioned that they would be sent to the Registrar of the societies for approval. Once an approval was got from the Registrar they would be adopted.

A resolution was passed as:

“It was unanimously resolved that be and hereby amend in the Memorandum of Association and Rules and Regulations of the Society, as per comparative statement, with immediate effected, subject to be approval by the general body.

Further it was decided that the above amendment Memorandum of Association and Rules and Regulations of the society be put-up before the next special general body meeting for confirmation”.

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Members complimented Mr. Sehgal and the committee for the excellent work done.

5. UPDATE ON LEGAL MATTERS, NURSERY ADMISSIONS -

Mr. Bhattacharya was asked to give legal inputs. He informed members that the issue was not only nursery admissions but the matter of autonomy of private unaided schools. He informed members that the petition regarding RTE was fixed for the constitution bench and the first hearing would be on 4th February.

On 28th January the case regarding quarterly fees had come up but was adjourned till 20th March. He also informed members of the meeting of the Action Committee with the Director of Education, Mrs. Padma Singla, where she had informed them that the schools could fix the upper age limit for Nursery. The Action committee had passed a resolution and suggested that the NPSC schools to do likewise. Mrs. Wattal said that a sub-committee would look into the same.

Mrs. Rita Sen, Principal, DPS, Rohini said that schools did not know of the various cases and one month was too long a period. Therefore, it was decided to upload the same on weekly basis on the NPSC website.

In the case of reimbursement of text books and uniform, nothing was decided for private unaided schools. Members were of the opinion that since most schools did not have uniform/stationery shops, they could not supply the same. However, the Chairperson remarked that the Govt. should give money directly to the parents as mentioned in RTE.

Mr. Jain pointed out that the action recommended by Anil Dev Committee against certain schools should have preceded by an interaction with schools where they would had an opportunity to give justification.

Mr. S. L Jain and Mr. L. V. Sehgal were requested to write a paper to help schools work out fee raise for the upcoming session. The Chairperson felt that the white paper could be circulated but it depended on School Managements as fee hike was the decision of the Managements.

Mr. S. K. Bhattacharya said that Action Committee was in the process of hiring 2 Chartered Accountants and schools could seek their advice.

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The inspection report in respect of Army Public School, Shankar Vihar, Delhi was presented by the Inspection Committee – Mrs. Anuradha Amos and Mrs. Anuradha Joshi with recommendations for the grant of the NPSC Membership which was approved by the house.

Mrs. Suman Nath then proposed a vote of thanks, where she thanked Mrs. Mamta Bhatanagar and the Principal for the beautiful song by the students, excellent arrangements and the warm hospitality.

There being no other matter, the meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.

(REKHA SHARMA) Secretary