RTE: 128 schools have zero EWS student count, deadline extended

indianexpress: Sun Jul 01 2012, 05:03 hrs

With the deadline to admit 25 per cent economically and socially backward students under the Right to Education (RTE) in private schools ending, 128 schools have not admitted even a single student under the quota, and now the deadline has been extended by 15 days, according to the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Education Board. The Board officials have warned of “strict action” if the rule is not complied with.

All the 128 schools are private English medium schools, including many well-known schools.

“Of the 373 private schools supposed to admit 25 per cent EWS students, 61 have done 100 per cent admission, and 184 have partially filled the EWS quota. There are 128 city schools that haven’t admitted even a single student under the quota,” said Ramchandra Jadhav, deputy director of education and chief education officer, PMC.

The Board had on Saturday convened a meeting of principals of all 373 private city schools under RTE ambit, student unions and parents to gauge the situation and solve issues involved in implementation of the EWS quota.

The list of schools with zero per cent EWS admission include Delhi Public School (Mohmmad Wadi), Little Rocks School (Balaji Nagar), Hujurpaga Primary School (Katraj), NMV school, (Shaniwar Peth), Spring Dale Primary School (Erandwane Gaothan), St Joseph’s Convent (Ramwadi), St Felix Primary School (Bund Garden), Modern English Medium School (J M Road), St Francis English Medium School (Yerawada), Symbiosis International (Lohegaon), Anjuman-e-Islam school.

On Saturday, the Board added nine more schools to the list of minority unaided schools exempt from the EWS quota. On June 21, the board said 30 schools were minority unaided schools in the city. The addition takes the list to 39.