Minority schools refuse to admit students under RTE

Vadodara | Sunday | 20th May, 2018

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Such schools will have to admit students who have been granted admissions under RTE,” said an official. Vadodara: A new row has surfaced in the city in connection to the admissions granted under the Right to Education (RTE) Act at schools running as minority institutes. A similar situation has also cropped up at Sabari Vidyalaya where parents are insisting that the school admits their wards. We have already admitted 180 students from senior KG to class one and it is humanly impossible for us to accommodate more students now,” he said, adding that the school will be approaching DEO on Monday. On Saturday, the row surfaced after a group of parents approached a couple of schools including Basil School and Sabari Vidyalaya demanding that their wards be granted admissions in the school based on admit cards issued to them under the RTE Act.But the school officials refused to entertain the requests on the grounds that in 2014, the Supreme Court had ruled that RTE Act will not be applicable to aided or unaided minority schools..