New Delhi, September 19 The Delhi High Court on Friday deputed three eminent persons, including Governor of Haryana A R Kidwai and Vice-Chairperson of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, to look into allegations of “irregularities” in the functioning of Delhi Public School (DPS) Society raised by its former president and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid.
Khurshid had recently moved the Delhi High Court after the Society expelled him for objecting to the style of functioning of the latter’s management.
Justice Hima Kohli, who heard the case, asked Kidwai, Ahluwalia and a leading member of the DPS Society, Sharda Nayak, to hear both sides and amicably resolve issues raised in Khurshid’s petition.
The court further posted the matter for September 30. Khurshid, who challenged his expulsion order of September 1, claimed he had pointed out several irregularities in the working of the society. He alleged the society management, which runs 130 schools across the country, was illegally collecting money from its affiliated schools in the name of licence fee and signing fee, much against the norms of the Delhi Education Act.
His expulsion allegedly followed a decision to intimate in writing all the 119 affiliated schools, asking them to become full-time members of the society, Khurshid submitted.
“Instead of correcting its mistake, the society issued a letter informing that he shall cease to be a member of the DPS Society,” the former Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief said in court.
“The issues we have raised cannot be limited to the working of a society, but affects the future of over 1.5 lakh children studying in these affiliated schools which are attractive because of the DPS tag. We are against the commercialisation of education and the court has intervened in a big way here,” said Hamidullah Bhat, counsel for Khurshid.
The Congress leader had first become a member of the DPS society in 1984 and its president in 1993.
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