Nursery admission - minimum age to remain 3 years

New Delhi: The Directorate of Education (DoE) has cleared the confusion regarding the minimum age of children to be eligible for admission into nursery. According to a circular issued by the Directorate on Friday, the minimum age limit for nursery admissions will remain three years, as it had been before.

According to the circular, all children admitted to preschool should be of minimum three years of age by March 31 of the year in which admission is being sought. The circular also said that the minimum age for pre-primary classes would remain unchanged at four years too.

In 2010, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal had suggested that the only children above four years of age should be allowed to seek admission into nursery in Delhi. However, Delhi education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely had said that the age criteria for Delhi being suggested by the HRD minister was discriminatory.

Lovely said that if the age limit of four for nursery admissions was being implemented, it should be done so for all the states and not only for Delhi.