Patna, March 11: Several schools in the city have started the process of admitting underprivileged children.
Twenty-five per cent of the seats across schools have been reserved for underprivileged children, according to the Right to Education (RTE) provisions. Schools have to go for a random selection method if the number of applicants is more than the number of seats.
District Magistrate (DM) Sanjay Kumar is to hold a review meeting on March 27 to see if the schools have adhered to the norms under the RTE. The schools have been asked to come out with the list of the underprivileged children they have admitted.
Some schools have to pre-pone the dates as per the instructions of the DM regarding the review meeting. The DM has asked all schools to complete the admission procedure by March 22.
Few schools have declared the dates for random selection of the underprivileged children. On the other hand, the minority schools are still waiting for clear instructions from the state government. They have also filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the implementation of the Right to Education Act.
The management committee of RPS Group of Educational Institutions said the applications for the admission of the underprivileged children in Class I are invited. Twenty-five per cent seats are reserved for them in RPS Residential School, New Bailey Road and RPS Public School at Patna-Masaurhi Road, Bari Pahari, Patna.
Fifty per cent of these seats have been reserved for girls, as per the norms of the RTE.
May Flower is already through with its admission procedure. Gyan Niketan will conduct its random selection on March 14. BD Public School and DAV BSEB would provide the forms till March 15 and just after that, they would have their random selection procedure for the underprivileged children if the number of applicants are more than the number of seats.
Principal of BD Public School, Madhuri, said: “We will conduct the random selection before Holi, that is before March 20. The forms will be given to the children till March 15 after which random selection process will be adopted.”
