Pvt schools get RTE break

Taking into account last year’s situation,when most of the private schools had arbitrarily converted the RTE seats into general claiming shortage in number of takers,UT Administration has now set a common ‘last date’ for candidates applying under RTE category.

“The schools have long been stating that despite advertising about the admissions,they have not been able to find ample number of eligible candidates for reserved category,” DPI (Schools) Sandeep Hans told Newsline.

“Since we had suggested the schools have a common date for displaying list of selected candidates,we have also asked them to wait for the RTE applicants till January 20. To facilitate them,we are also going to upload the child mapping survey data on our department website,” Hans said.

“Due to some minute errors in the data compilation,we had to withhold the uploading. But we hope to provide the entire information to the schools online by the end of this week,” Hans said,explaining the delay in uploading the survey data.

The child mapping survey aims at identifying the candidates eligible for free and compulsory education as per the provisions of RTE Act.

The survey was conducted in December last year,when about 1,000 UT government teachers had visited different households in the city to find out the eligible children.

Last year,29 of the total 73 private schools in Chandigarh had failed to fill the 25 per cent reserved seats in full capacity,claiming to have not received enough applications under the category.