* Process for admissions under RTE Act to go online
By Kartik Lokhande
Education
Department (Primary), Zilla Parishad, has issued notices to 134 schools
in the district and has sought explanation from them within seven days
regarding meeting the norms under Right to Education (RTE) Act. These
schools include those governed by local bodies as well as private aided
and unaided ones.
“We have sought explanations from these schools on
whether they have got all 10 infrastructure indicators as prescribed
under RTE Act,” said Anil Kolhe, Acting Deputy Education Officer
(Primary), ZP. These 10 important indicators include pucca/kuchha
building owned by schools or rented building, designated room for
Headmaster for office-cum-store, classroom for each teacher, ramp to
facilitate movement of special children, separate toilets for boys and
girls, drinking water facility, kitchen shed for mid-day meals and
separate room for cooking, boundary wall, and play ground.
According
to Kolhe, these 134 schools include those found with less than 50 per
cent of attendance of students compared to those on rolls, during the
rolls verification drive conducted in 2011. Then, he recalled, approval
of 79 schools was revoked. However, the decision was challenged by the
managements of the schools concerned. The court had restored approval of
these schools. But, these and some more schools were not meeting
infrastructure norms under RTE Act. Hence, Kolhe said, notices have been
issued to 134 such schools.
These schools include 60 private aided
oones, 22 permanently unaided (mostly English medium convents), 16 run
by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), 14 governed by Zilla Parishad, 12
private unaided, and two run by Kamptee Municipal Council. Besides,
these also include eight schools where verification of students on rolls
was not conducted but were found to be lagging in meeting RTE norms.
“The list does not include prominent schools as they were found having
necessary infrastructure,” said Kolhe.
Once explanations are
received from these schools, Kolhe added, a committee would be
constructed to conduct scrutiny. In case of schools found not meeting
the norms under RTE Act, proposals for revoking approval would be
submitted to Director (Education), who will then forward the same to the
Government for further decision, he said.
Meanwhile, Kolhe said,
the process of admissions under RTE Act will be conducted online from
February. The appointment of service provider for conducting online
process is likely to be finalised by the Government by February, he
added.
(Published in The Hitavada CityLine on January 2, 2015)
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