Transparancy Should Be In School Admission Procedures

"The admission procedure under the right to education (RTE) act should be non-discriminatory, rational and transparent" Said HRD Ministry.

According to a release by the ministry, the objective of the provisions of section 13(1) read with section 2(a) is to ensure that schools adopt an admission procedure which is non-discriminatory, rational and transparent and that schools do not subject children and their parents to admission tests and interview in order to decide whether they will admit a child or not.

Admission to remaining 75 percent of the seats in respect of unaided schools and specified category schools, and for all the seats in the aided schools, each school should formulate a policy under which admissions are to take place.

The ministry said there should be no testing and interviews for any child/parent falling within or outside the categories, and selection would be on a random basis. IANS