Four year for Nursery is ok but the Delhi Government wants to implement the idea throughout the country. Over 80 percent students of CBSE belong to Delhi only as more than 900 schools in the city are either affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or follow CBSE curriculum. “We welcome the move of the Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to raise minimum age for admission in nursery classes as it will be beneficial for both children and parents. But this should be uniformly implemented across all the states of the country”, Delhi’s Education Minister, Arvinder Singh told fachcha.com.

Reacting upon the recent proposal to raise minimum age for admission in schools, mooted by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, the Education Minister said that nothing could better for parents and children if all the states implement the proposal but if the proposal is limited for Delhi it is not good for Delhi’s students. “We will not let our students to lag behind for one year in terms of 10+2 or graduation in comparison with students of other students”, Arvinder Singh Said adding that in most of the cases Delhi normally used to follows Centre’s norms in this regard.

It is notable that except Central schools and some other schools, affiliated with CBSE, follow centre’s regulations in this regard but schools in other states (excepts Delhi) follow the regulations of state boards. It is normally discretion of State government in this regard as education comes under the concurrent list of the constitution. And, 85% students come from states’ schools only.

“HRD Minister should also try to increase the age bar for Civil Services, IITs, IIMs and other competitive examinations too”, Arvinder Singh told fachcha.com.

“Imagine the situation if a student of other state completes graduation in just 20 years and our students complete it in 21 year it will affect our student’s competitive edge as well as their career promotion and so many things”, he adds.