Admissions under RTE Act begin

Admissions under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, for entry-level lessons in non-public faculties throughout the State started on Monday.

Through the RTE portal, the Directorate of Matriculation Schools had referred to as for purposes.

This yr, there are over 1.13 lakh seats out there in round 8,000 faculties throughout the State.

8,940 purposes

A senior official of the School Education Department mentioned 8,940 purposes have been obtained until Monday night. “The number of applications is likely to increase through this first week. Parents can submit applications online till August 3,” he mentioned.

The districts with the best variety of faculties which have seats earmarked under the RTE Act are Tiruvallur (556), Chennai (438) and Madurai (434).

Ahead of the beginning of the appliance course of, non-public faculties have been requested to show the variety of seats put aside for RTE admissions on their discover boards.

Parents who have been unable to use on-line have been requested to both submit their purposes via the faculties the place they sought admission or method the centres earmarked by the School Education Department to facilitate the method of their district.

Last yr, as a result of pandemic, the admission course of for seats under the RTE Act started solely in the direction of the top of August, and almost 86,300 purposes have been obtained for 1.15 lakh seats throughout the State.

The Act mandates that personal faculties put aside 25% of their entry-level seats for college kids from the economically weaker sections of society.