Maharashtra: Over 1 lakh students allotted seats to pvt schools under RTE admission

A total of 3,05,152 applications were received for RTE admissions this year while 1,01, 916 applications were selected in the lottery system.

A notification issued by the Directorate of Primary education states, “Applicants will be informed via SMS sent on the mobile number registered with the system. However, all parents who applied for RTE admissions this year are advised to check seat allotments online with their personal log-in details. According to the allotment, parents are expected to complete verification of all required documents to confirm admissions on the allotted seat.”

Director of Primary Education Sharad Gosavi said, “Parents are advised to check their application status online, instead of depending on the SMS so that nobody misses out on the admission, in case they don’t receive the SMS.”

This year, instructions have been issued to complete RTE admissions by May so that students who are admitted to schools on RTE seats do not suffer any academic loss.

Last year, the process of RTE admissions witnessed unprecedented delay. The state government then had changed the rule of implementation and excluded private unaided schools from the RTE ambit for these admissions. It was subsequently challenged by parent activists in the Bombay High Court, which ruled in favour of parents and instructed the state government to revert to the original structure wherein RTE admissions were conducted on 25 per cent seats reserved in private unaided schools. Due to this delay, more than 11,000 seats under RTE remained vacant last year.