How can the state government know whether parents want state government school or not? How do they care if the phone is switched off? This does not relate to the admission, says Expert
Frivolous reasons have emerged in state government's list of rejected applications received for admissions under RTE Act.
While the list contained many reasons including income certificate not valid, caste certificate not proper, wrong address proof, income proof of grandfather, etc, some drew the attention of experts. The phone is dead, parents do not agree, parents want state government school, income proof is of mother, etc were found to be frivolous. The rejection list was uploaded on the website.
An expert working on the implementation of RTE said, "How can the state government know whether parents want state government school or not? How do they care if the phone is switched off? This does not relate to the admission."
Round one of the admissions revealed a shocking development as nearly 32,000 seats across the state remained vacant. While this year, the state government had increased the seats by 75%, of the 1,25,729 applications approved by the District Primary Education Officer (DPEO), only 80,199 got admissions. In April, the state government had announced that they had a target of 1,05,000 seats across the state for RTE admissions as against 60,000 last year. However, with round 1 having only 80,199 admissions, the situation seemed worrisome.
Gulmoin Khokhar, convenor, Zubeida Seva Trust, which has been working on RTE since years said, "Many parents are clueless about why their application was rejected. Those who have got admissions are not happy and either are seeking transfer of school or have decided to withdraw admissions. This time, many parents faced rejection due to confusion in BPL card too. While parents have BPL card, very less people feature in the score below 20 and no one knows how to obtain that score."
Also, many schools are charging fees and harassing parents when they went to submit documents, Khokar added. State education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said: "For fake admissions, we will be filing police complaints against parents. We have rejected many applications based on documents. If documents are not proper, no one can get admission."
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