new delhi a delhi high court bench has issued a notice to the director of education and montfort school on a petition challenging the admission procedure to nursery the petition also seeks appropriate direction to the schools to admit children living within 3 km this directive by the delhi government is at present being violatedjustice dalveer bhandari and justice r c jain heard the petition filed by an ngo social jurist and asked the respondents to reply on march 15 the petition is also an appeal against the order of a single judge justice sanjay kishan kaul kaul had recently held that a school can exercise discretionary powers to admit children to their nursery classesthe ngos advocate ashok aggarwal argued before the bench that the present procedure adopted by schools is arbitrary he claimed it was a commercial venture where the schools in the garb of interviews and tests wanted to ascertain the economic background of the childrento support his arguments aggarwal has mentioned the salient features of kothari commission yashpal committee and the y n chaturvedi committee which recommend the abolition of tests and interviews for admission to nursery classesaggarwal has cited certain sections of the delhi school education act 1973 which contain the guidelines to regulate the admission procedure according to the act the education director is empowered to decide whether children seeking admission to nursery classes should sit for an admission test