The minority schools have been excluded from the requisite 25% admission quota under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
The minority and welfare department, which is responsible for awarding minority status to educational institutions, has now issued a circular to all institutions saying that whichever school has been awarded minority status must display the information about the government order validating the same to everybody in the school.
The minority schools have been excluded from the requisite 25% admission quota under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. It has been observed that what happens most of the times is that schools declare themselves to have already gotten minority status when they are actually in the process of getting the same. They do this to avoid filling up the 25% quota for students under the RTE Act, education activists claimed.
Thus, recently, the minority and welfare department issued the circular in which schools have been given the format in which they have to mention the name of the institution, the trust or society that runs it, and a declaration that the institution has been awarded the status of being a religious/linguistic minority institution by a government of Maharashtra vide order, the date and order number for which need to be mentioned.
According to school officials, this is the first time that the department has issued such a circular, following which is mandatory. Uday Nare, a teacher at Hansraj Morarji Public School in Andheri, said: "It is mandatory for schools to display information about their minority status in order to make parents aware that their child's school has minority status."
Jayant Jain, president, Forum for Fairness in Education, said: "This was very necessary and we are happy to hear this. This will bring transparency in the system. Most of the schools claim they are minority ones just because they don't wish to fill the 25% quota admissions of RTE. Also, only issuing the circular will not help, because 99% of the times these are not followed. So, the department should monitor whether schools are following the instructions of displaying such information."
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