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Govt, CBSE reply sought on 'exclusion' of EWS students by pvt schools
The Morning Standard
|August 28, 2025
THE Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses from the Delhi government and CBSE on a plea alleging "commercialisation" and "systemic exclusion" of EWS students from private schools through forced purchase of expensive books of private publishers and exorbitantly priced academia materials.
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A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued notice while hearing a PIL and directed the Delhi government, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to file the replies within four weeks and posted the plea for Nov 12.
This story is from the August 28, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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