A written undertaking by parents will do, says government: It's unfair, argue managements of private schools.
Birth certificate is no more mandatory for children to get admission to schools under Right To Education (RTE), according to a circular issued by state department of public instruction. A simple undertaking by parents on white paper will do.
The circular has asked school authorities must be liberal in admitting children under RTE, and not deny admission even if parents fail to produce birth certificate of the child.
Existing rules require parents to produce some kind of proof of date of birth to determine the age of child at the time of school admission. But if the parents have no document certifying birth, , then schools can accept a written undertaking from parents on white paper.
The circular has private school managements up in arms. They argue that issue of such circulars by the government amounts to imposing RTE on private schools.
“Not just birth certificate, department is asking us to provide seats even if the parents fail to produce cast certificate and income certificate,” D Shashi Kumar, organising secretary of Karnataka State private schools Management Federation (KSPSMF) told DNA.
He cited cases where wherein parents had tried to admit their four-year-old children to class 1 by claiming the age to be 5, taking advantage of the child physical appearance.
“This rule might be a boon for parents to get in their child to private school. But in future child will suffer mentally,” said Shashi Kumar.
M Srinivasan, president of managements of independent CBSE schools association said: “The rule is totally unreasonable. There are cases where parents trying to admit their child studying in second standard, to first standard under RTE, giving a false undertaking on age.”
Associations of private schools have asked their members to ignore the circular. “We have informed our member schools not to admit students if parents fails to produce birth certificate. We don’t care even if we get notice from government. We will not accept anything which is not meaningful,” said Srinivasan.
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