Jamshedpur: Disappointment and jubilation swept through the town on Saturday after nearly 60 private CBSE and CISCE English medium schools announced the result of the lottery for admission of students to the nursery, LKG and UKG levels.

The results were declared either on the school notice boards, or their websites or both. While several schools declared the results in the morning, others did it after 1pm.

According to an estimate, about 30,000 applications were received for around 10,000 seats. "It is difficult to say how many missed because most apply in more than one school," said Hill Top School principal Puneeta B. Chouhan.

Parents whose children made it were jubilant. Most others were crestfallen.

"I sought admission to four schools but my daughter's name did not appear in any one of them. This is why people who can afford good education for their children never supported RTE. We will wait for a second list now and then plan what to do next," said Trilok C. Das, an Adityapur executive, whose daughter Shreya could not make it to Sacred Heart Convent, Carmel Junior College, DBMS English School and JH Tarapore School.

"It's luck. I saw my daughter's name on the school website." said Joydeep Mitra, whose son Shivansh, made it to DAV Public School Bistupur.

The schools conducted their lottery between January 12 and January 19, either manually or through softwares, to pick students under the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. Parents had applied for the lottery from September to November 2017. For the past few years, schools, under a district administration directive, have been declaring the results on the same date.

Most of the schools will start their admission process from January 23. Some schools like Loyola have decided to organise a pre-admission counselling for parents. Sacred Heart Convent School will issue admission cards on January 24 and 25 and the admission will take place from January 29 to 31.

The schools had to submit the names of selected students, admission through management, sibling, staff and corporate quotas to the district education office.

"Despite protests, schools explained that they need the quotas for various reasons. We asked them to be transparent and all of them have complied," said district superintendent of education B.B. Singh.