How to solve admission into aided schools when the Act is silent - and enhances rent-seeking
Created by Jan Sj Rao on Mon, 2010-07-12 15:04
Section 12 of the RTE Act provides that all aided school have to provide free education to such proportion of their students, as the aid received by them by the government bears to their total recurring expenditure. The Act is silent about what criteria the aided schools will use to determine which students they will provide free education to under this section and the Rules should fill this lacuna. The silence can lead to powerful figures (politicians, babus, principals, SMC heads) getting their friends' and colleagues' children in for free to sought after private schools.
The Rules can provide that the children given free education under this section shall belong to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups as defined for the purpose of the 25% quota.
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7 July 2010
32 weeks 2 days
I hope that regulations are created in such a way that this reservation reaches out to people who genuinely need it and does not become a tool in the hands of politicians to fulfil their political vendetta.
-S