New Delhi: The Delhi government today decided to "relax" its rules and grant admission in its school to Madhu, a Pakistani migrant girl after Union Minister Sushma Swaraj raised the issue with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Madhu, 16, had been struggling to secure admission due to lack of required documents. She said she had come to India with her mother, siblings, her uncle and cousins two years ago after they fled religious persecution in Pakistan's Punjab province.
After making rounds of Delhi government, co-ed senior secondary school in Sanjay Colony where authorities refused to enrol her in ninth standard as she does not have the necessary documents required to complete the formalities. The migrant girl also wrote to Mr Kejriwal seeking intervention.
"To accommodate Madhu's request, the government can consider relaxing whatever rules and regulations, if they come in way of her joining our school," Mr Sisodia, who is also the education minister, said in an official order.
"Accordingly admission to Madhu may immediately be provided at any of our government schools located in Sanjay Colony, Bhati Mines, Fatehpur Beri, New Delhi. She would also be given necessary books and uniform and we may facilitate whatever is required for the girl to study in our school," the order further added.
Madhu, 16, had been struggling to secure admission due to lack of required documents. She said she had come to India with her mother, siblings, her uncle and cousins two years ago after they fled religious persecution in Pakistan's Punjab province.
After making rounds of Delhi government, co-ed senior secondary school in Sanjay Colony where authorities refused to enrol her in ninth standard as she does not have the necessary documents required to complete the formalities. The migrant girl also wrote to Mr Kejriwal seeking intervention.
"To accommodate Madhu's request, the government can consider relaxing whatever rules and regulations, if they come in way of her joining our school," Mr Sisodia, who is also the education minister, said in an official order.
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"Accordingly admission to Madhu may immediately be provided at any of our government schools located in Sanjay Colony, Bhati Mines, Fatehpur Beri, New Delhi. She would also be given necessary books and uniform and we may facilitate whatever is required for the girl to study in our school," the order further added.
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