Amid Covid-19 surge, KVS defers admission process

PRAYAGRAJ : Amidst rising Covid cases across the country, the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has postponed the process for admission in class I across the country.

Without giving any fresh date as to when the list of students, selected through lottery, would be declared by 1200-odd KVs spread in 25 regions of the country, the headquarters has said the same would be done after April 30.

KVS had commenced the online registration for admission to class I (for 2021-22 session) from April 1.

The registration, which opened at 10:00 am on April 1, continued till 7:00 pm on April

19. Likewise, registration for Class II and above was done from April 8 to April 15 if vacancies existed in the respective KV.

It was informed that the first list of provisionally admitted students would be declared by the respective schools on April

23.

However, the same was not done as almost all the schools were closed owing to Covid restrictions across the country.

On April 28, joint commissioner (academics), KVS, Priya Thakur issued a letter to deputy commissioners of all the 25 regions of KVS, informing them that the declaration of class 1 admission to be done after April 30 (instead of April 23), depending on the situation.

“As of now, the list of selected students (provisional) would be declared after April 30. The exact date has not been announced by the higher authorities as the same would be decided as per the prevailing conditions after April 30,” said principal, KV AFS Manauri, Shalini Dikshit.

The letter from the KV headquarters also mentions that the DCs concerned would have to take their own decision on the issue of display of the admission list from class 2 to 9 as per the exigencies of the state concerned.

For admission to class 9, the DCs have been told that admission should be done on the basis of priority category and admission test will not be conducted for the same.

“The earlier instructions, regarding admission to class 1, also directed us that under present situation, the directions issued by competent authority (central/state/local) are to be followed and given the present worsening condition of pandemic, seems like the schools will have to wait a bit and not take any decision in haste,” said principal, KV IIIT Jhalwa, Vijeyesh Pandey.