India, High Court of Delhi, 4 May 2022, W.P.(C) 5927/2021 & CM APPL. 18696/2021
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General Summary
The Court sought the response of the Delhi Government and the competent authority in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, on the steps taken independently for the purposes of continuing the education of children who may have lost their parents due to Covid-19 in aided or government established schools as well as further measures that may have been adopted for the purposes of ensuring that their studies were not disrupted.
Facts of the case
The present writ petition was filed seeking expeditious implementation of various schemes floated by the respondents for providing compensation/ex gratia amount and other benefits to families with children, where the sole bread earner had died due to a lack of oxygen supply during the second wave of the Covid -19 pandemic. The petition was filed by a mother and natural guardian of the petitioners. Since the fact that appropriate policy measures for the rehabilitation of children who had lost parents during Covid-19 was duly formulated and adopted and no longer disputed, the only issue surviving was that of the continuance of education of children who may have lost one or more of their parents due to Covid-19.
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Directions were issued to the competent authority in the Ministry of Women and Child Development to submit a further affidavit explaining in detail the steps taken to ensure the continued education of children who had lost their parents due to Covid-19 and the further measures that may have been adopted for the purposes of ensuring that their studies were not disrupted. Furthermore, the Court sought details from the GNCTD regarding the steps or measures it adopted independently for the purposes of continuing the education of children who may have lost their parents due to Covid-19 in aided or government-established schools. The matter was posted on 04.11.2022.
The Court stated that there was a need to introduce directives to deal with the subject of continuing the education of children who may have lost one or more of their parents due to Covid-19. The case is pending.
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The case is pending.