New Delhi: Delhi High Court has declined to interfere with the state govt’s decision to give cash to students admitted under Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and disadvantaged group categories in private schools for buying their uniforms.
On its part, the state govt had earlier said the cabinet believed that procurement and distribution of uniforms would not be feasible due to operational constraints and therefore, a new policy decision was taken in June 2025 to pay a suitable amount for uniforms to students.
A Bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Renu Bhatnagar recently dismissed a review petition by NGO “Justice For All” urging the court to reconsider its Jan 23 judgment on the issue, seeking that uniforms be directly provided to eligible children. “The decision of the govt that it shall provide cash to the students instead of providing uniforms because of the difficulties faced by the govt cannot be said to be completely arbitrary, whimsical or capricious,” the court said. The NGO argued that govt ought to provide uniforms to the students belonging to EWS and disadvantaged group categories in aided and unaided private schools and not cash as per the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.
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In Jan, the high court had upheld govt’s decision to directly give cash to students admitted under EWS and disadvantaged group categories in private schools for buying their uniforms, observing that the authorities will have a “genuine” difficulty in processing individual orders for each student’s uniform. “Undoubtedly, it would be impossible to carry out the exercise of taking measurements of every student, placing orders for different kinds of uniform cloth on the GeM portal, after procurement of the material getting the uniforms stitched as per the measurements and finally distributing the uniforms in schools,” it had stated. It had held that the move to give subsidy for uniforms through ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ was not contrary to the mandate of the Right To Education Act and its rules. Download the TOI App.