new delhi nursery admissions this year will follow the lieutenant governors guidelines with delhi high court refusing to stay these on friday justice manmohan declined any interim relief to unaided recognized private schools which have sought quashing of the notification on nursery admission guidelines hc only issued notices to delhi government and directorate of education observing the petitions required detailed hearing and it cannot be stayed on the first day hc has sought a response from the state government and directorate of education posting the case for final hearing on march 11 appearing for the association of schools senior advocates n k kaul and sandeep sethi attacked the governments notification as arbitrary and urged hc that at least for the time being the operation of the notification be stayed the schools opposed the governments step of allotting 70 points to neighbourhood children saying it was against the ganguly committee recommendation the ganguly committee had said you cannot restrict people to one area giving 70 points out of 100 to neighbourhood is arbitrary they argued adding that the order of the lg seriously compromises the autonomy of the private school which goes against the stand taken by the central government enlisting the concerns of the schools kaul said the third contention is that running an education institution is a fundamental right and therefore this right can be curtailed only by a legislative enactment and not by an executive order but hc wondered how schools could claim there was no application of mind by the lg pointing out that the lg is also an educationist but kaul maintained that even educationist can make mistakes and urged hc to let the 2007 guidelines be the deciding factor for admissions in this academic session the admission process for nursery will start from january 15 and the last date for submission of applications is january 31rte activists welcomed the development in hc rte forum said the hc hearing will protect the rights of children from neighbourhood delhi state public schools management association said it is deeply disappointed with delhi high court over no relief on the lgs latest notification of nursery admissions 2014 the latest guidelines issued by the honble lg have snatched the autonomy of private unaided recognized schools in admissions it said