Summary:
The reply said that of the 3097 applications that were rejected for various reasons, 2497 rejected applications were from Surat Corporation. A reply filed in the Gujarat high court in connection with a petition before a division bench sought that an investigation be carried out in the unusually high rejection of RTE applications from Surat corporation. "There is something suspicious about such high rejection from one area and it needs to be the investigated," the reply said. It also sought that the government consider many of the rejected applications as many of them were rejected on frivolous grounds including invalid birth certificate, address proof, mismatch in names etc. It also raised questions about the government's motive after the state in a reply said that the rest of 7871 students will be given admission in the second round..