Pune: 90% seats under RTE filled up in private primary schools

As per official data, Thane, Nagpur and Mumbai trail behind.

As per the Right to Education Act 2009, 25% seats in entry-level classes in unaided (private) schools are reserved for students from disadvantaged groups or socially and economically weaker sections.

After several delays, the admission process for students, which began on March 1, concluded on Monday.

Across Maharashtra, there were 3.65 lakh applications for 1.01 lakh seats reserved under the RTE. Admissions to a little over 80% of the total seats (82,908) have been confirmed.

“There are still several vacancies,” said Deputy RTE officer Momin Asma Begum Imdoddin. “A decision on conducting further rounds of admission has not yet been taken. There have been more admissions this year compared to last year as more schools have participated.”

Talking about the admission process, Imdoddin said, “The entire admission process was online. There were some cases where the documents were not in order or there were discrepancies in dates. Those were sent to us and we resolved them.”

In Pune, there were 77,531 applications, out of which 22,523 selections were made. Over 930 schools participated in the process from across the city.

A total of 10,676 admissions were confirmed in the regular selection.

There were 2,407 confirmations through the first waiting list, 700 in the second waiting list, 260 in the third and 111 in the fourth round, which is in all likelihood the last round.