The district administration has warned action against those parents who got their wards admitted in various schools with the help of fake BPl card under the RTE. The admission would not be cancelled, but the fee waiver along with the penalty has to be deposited by the parents who have committed the fraud, a to official said here on Monday.
The action came after CBSE and ICSE affiliated schools complained regarding the admissions under RTE using fake BPl ration cards. The schools could also claim for the difference in the fee waiver which was provided to the students under the act.
CBSE and ICSE schools charge annually around Rs13,000 to Rs18,000 which is reduced to Rs 2700 annually for BPl ration card holder family children under RTE and in case if the parents have to return the fees waiver the amount will more than Rs10,000 and including the interest on the amount the total would be around Rs15,000.
In the year 2011, the State government issued the rules of admission under the RTE and in the same year the admissions were started. The matter highlighted after children who got admissions in school under BPl category and were benefited under RTE were found using fake BPl card. SDM Vikas Tripathi told ‘The Pioneer’ that around 90 percent of the students who got admission through RTE where found using fake BPl cards. In the initial investigation, around 27 cases have been found so far and in Govindpura area.
It was found that around 90 per cent of the admissions taken under RTE used fake BPl card. The administration has decided to charge interest on the difference of the waiver which the parents have to return, he added.
Under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, every child has a right to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards. Around 25 per cent of the seats in private schools which are non-funded have to be filled through.