Right to Education Act has been implemented effectively and successfully for last five years in Madhya Pradesh. It may be mentioned that the State has been included in the list of the leading States of the country for implementing this Act.
Besides, Madhya Pradesh has become the first state for publishing the rules of the Act in the state gazette. In strict adherence to the Act, the children of deprived and weaker section are being admitted and given free education in the esteemed private schools since 2011-12. Fee of the students getting free education is being borne by the state government. Almost, an amount of Rs 360 crore was reimbursed as fee till 2014-15.
After implementation of the Act, 7.58 lakh children of weaker section got admission in the private schools till now. A large number from Bhopal and Indore, a total of 50,000 from each district got admission in the schools. Similarly 1.40 lakh in 2011-12, 1 lakh 47,000 in 2012-13, 1.46 lakh in 2013-14, 1.50 lakh in 2014-15, 1.73 lakh children in 2015-16 got admission in the private schools. In order to make the admission procedure more transparent and effective, an online system has been implemented in the state from this year for admission of the children belonging to deprived and weaker section. Admission applications were received for admission in class 1, KG and Nursery in the month of July. All the applications were registered on the RTE portal, which were later on included in the lottery system. On August 2, 2016 seats were allotted in the schools through randomization in the presence of the public by centralized and transparent system.
A total of 1.71 lakh children were selected through online lottery including 27,493 from SC , 10,505 from ST, 169 from forest village lease holders, 559 of denotified category, 105 orphans, 189 from disable of special need and 1.32 lakh of BPl category. After the online lottery, 1.59 lakh children were given admission in the private schools of their choice under the first priority shown in their applications. Whereas 6,065 children and 2,804 children were given admissions in second and third priority private schools respectively. Twenty two thousand 437 private schools participated in the system. A total of 2.31 lakh applications were received for admission under this system.