The School Education Department has declared that presently, no restrictions have been imposed on admission in private schools of State, as per the instructions issued under Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, officials stated.
Only for regulating the admission process in such schools, directives to ensure transparency in admission has been issued as per the procedure, they stated. According to the information received from Directorate of Public Instructions on Sunday , students will be provided facility of school education in their accessible area, under Right to Free and Compulsory Child Education Act.
Officials of Directorate of Public Instructions further informed that as Government schools do not have nursery classes, children will be eligible to take admission in nursery classes of private schools under RTE quota.
Private schools will be randomly selected for the purpose. For admission in Standard 1st, there will be a pool of seats under RTE quota in all the accessible schools to children, wherein admission process will be conducted in transparent manner on priority basis.
Private schools in the State offer classes from nursery. Hence, it is desired that students should begin their education from nursery classes in such schools. Admission in nursery classes will be provided under RTE quota. Private schools do not have the authority to directly conduct admission process for RTE quota.
Private schools will have to inform District Education Officer (DEO) about Entry Point Class. Based on the data provided by them, seats will be reserved in private schools concerned.
School management will be itself responsible for the disciplinary action taken, if it fails to provide information about entry point class to DEO.
Officials informed that for teaching work, the State Government has fixed 200 days and 800 hours for primary schools, and 220 days and 1000 hours for middle school. All the schools will have to abide by this rule.