Jaipur: Most city-based schools are openly flouting Right to Education Act 2009 in the absence of any monitoring by the state education department. In fact, TOI did a reality check by approaching five schools and found that all of them are flouting RTE norms in one way or other.
Many schools have started selling admission forms keeping parents in dark about RTE provisions. An elite school at Jawahar Nagar and Tilak Nagar had asked parents to appear for an interactive session on December 17 with the principal and teachers. The staff dealing with admissions expressed their inability over the ban on interviews/interactive sessions, when asked.
A prominent missionary school at CScheme has outrightly refused to admit students under economically weaker sections under RTE Act. They claimed that the provision of reserving 25% seats have been challenged in the court. So they will maintain the status-quo till the court pronounces its judgment, they said.
Many other schools who have not started with the admissions, prefer silence over the implementation. The elite schools are giving excuses that by giving 25% seats to economically weaker sections, they have to pass the 100% expenses on the 75% students admitted under non-reserved category. Many parents are of the opinion that every state should have state-level NCPCR to ensure successful implementation of the Act.
Education department officers said that they have asked parents to complaint in case they came across any defaulter school. “This year we are fully prepared to implement the act. Our teams will closely follow the admission process besides will carry out random checking,” said Shiv Charan Meena, education officer, elementary. Bodies like National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and National Human Rights Commission having semi-judicial powers have already asked the people to seek their help in case they were being victimized by schools.
Many schools have started selling admission forms keeping parents in dark about RTE provisions. An elite school at Jawahar Nagar and Tilak Nagar had asked parents to appear for an interactive session on December 17 with the principal and teachers. The staff dealing with admissions expressed their inability over the ban on interviews/interactive sessions, when asked.
A prominent missionary school at CScheme has outrightly refused to admit students under economically weaker sections under RTE Act. They claimed that the provision of reserving 25% seats have been challenged in the court. So they will maintain the status-quo till the court pronounces its judgment, they said.
Many other schools who have not started with the admissions, prefer silence over the implementation. The elite schools are giving excuses that by giving 25% seats to economically weaker sections, they have to pass the 100% expenses on the 75% students admitted under non-reserved category. Many parents are of the opinion that every state should have state-level NCPCR to ensure successful implementation of the Act.
Education department officers said that they have asked parents to complaint in case they came across any defaulter school. “This year we are fully prepared to implement the act. Our teams will closely follow the admission process besides will carry out random checking,” said Shiv Charan Meena, education officer, elementary. Bodies like National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and National Human Rights Commission having semi-judicial powers have already asked the people to seek their help in case they were being victimized by schools.
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