Hundreds of parents in the Capital rushed to schools on Wednesday to see if their children made it to the nursery admissions list.

The lists have been made following the recommendations of the Ganguly Committee, but it now seems that the recommendations have neither solved parents' problems nor made the admissions process any simpler for the schools.

The question that was being asked on India 360 was: Has the implementation of the Ganguly Commitee recommendations proved to be an experiment in failure?

On the panel of experts to try and answer the question were former CBSE chairman and member Committee on Nursery Admission, Father T V Kunnunkal; Principal Springdales School,Pusa Road, Ameeta M Wattal; and a concerned parent, Pooja Shekhar.

So is the new admission process less agonising than the previous one and is it gearing towards greater transparency in the system?

To this Pooja Shekhar said, "The admission process has been much the same as before. I don't see any difference. I haven't slept properly for the last one week because of tension and once the results were out, five schools had rejected my child for no apparent reason - even the school where my husband is an alumni did not take my child."

Does not the point which gives marks to students on the basis of whether their parents were alumni or not results in a ridiculous composition of the class?

Father Kunnunkal agreed with this and said, "Schools are very different in Delhi and it is difficult to categorise them. There are many schools that have hardly any alumni whereas well-established schools will have a large number of them. As a result some schools may have children who are the offspring of only alumni, which is very unfair to the others."

The alumni system defeats the very purpose of having diversity in the classroom? Ameeta M Wattal said that this particular point had caused a lot of anguish in her school at least. She said that the points given to siblings were also unfair because out of the 57 seats in her school, practically all went to siblings.

"If you are the child of an alumni, your sibling studies in the school, you are a girl child and live within three km, then how can the seats go to anyone else?" she points out.