Allow Class XI admission in school near home: Girls

JIND: Around 20 girl students approached the Jind deputy commissioner’s office on Friday, claiming that education department officials had refused to give them admission to the co-educational government senior secondary school of Muwana village in Safidon sub-division and asked them to apply for admission to a girls school which was 2km away and on the outskirts of the village.
The students said their parents were not willing to send them to the girls school due to security concerns as they would have to walk till there. They said they had faced problems in Class X too and would encounter anti-social elements on the way. Muwana is one of the biggest villages in Jind district and BJP district president Amarpal Rana hails from there.
The students claimed that there were two schools in the village. They had applied for admission in the arts stream of Class XI in the co-educational school.
The students reached the mini-secretariat along with their parents to meet the DC. They said they would drop out of school if they were not given admission in the coeducational school, which is near their houses.
One of students, Kajal, said the girls’ school also lacked infrastructure. “We have even paid for hiring a science teacher last year by paying Rs 100 per student and Rs 100 for generator in summer season. We all are from poor backgrounds and unable to pay such an amount and there are no better arrangements. This is why we sought a change,” she added.
Another student, Shivani, said the co-educational school was giving admissions to girls in the science stream, but not those who wanted to study art. “They even told our parents that students of our stream are not sincere. If we don’t get admission in the nearby school, our parents will marry us off or stop us from attending school,” she said.
DEO Madan Chopra said she would look into the matter personally. “The school authority cannot refuse to give admissions to girls. A reason why they did not admit them could be because the posts of teachers at the girls school would have been surplus then,” Chopra said.
DC Aaditya Dahiya said he had asked district education officials to sort out the issue within two days. Safidon ASP Ajit Singh Shekhawat said the girls could approach the police in case they wanted security.