As per the recent news, Supreme Court confirmed the Rajasthan High Court orders upon restoring the income limit of Rs. 2.5 lakh on providing admissions under the RTE Act, 2009.
The news says that, the SC suspended the special leave petition (SLP), which has put a question on the high court order for not restricting the benefits of RTE to BPL families and also those with the annual income of up to Rs. 2.5 lakh.
In order to cut down the expenditure, the government had released the measures regarding putting restrictions on admissions to BPL families for the session of 2016-17. Because of the BPL rider, only a sum of 60,000 students got enrolled under the quota in comparison to RTE quota of 2.5 lakh in 33,500 private schools.
Also, the state government summed up that they had initiated to cut down the cost and also pass the benefits to eligible candidates.
Also, the Abhyutthanam Society has made a challenge in the government notification in the high court and was also a respondent in the Supreme Court. Also, advocates Anuroop Singhi and Ankit Shah , on behalf of the society mentioned that the government, against the law diminished the right to free and obligatory education, which is guaranteed to children. They submitted in the court that, ” The state took away the fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21A of the Constitution and the RTE Act of 2009″.
Also, admissions in the state will be based totally on the set income bars. In the academic year of 2017-18, 2.5 lakh students will be benefitted from this order.
Also, Damodar Goyal (the educationist) mentioned that the order will be a great help to fill the 25% seats in provate schools. These were vacant because of BPL rider.
Since the year, 2012, with a number of 6.5 lakh admissions, Rajasthan state is leading the country in the admissions under RTE Act. The state is bound to make available Rs. 160 crore per year to all private schools as reimbursements. Also, the state is paying Rs. 15,500 for every child, every year in the form of reimbursement in schools.
