Finish RTE admissions in 3 days: East S'bhum DC to pvt schools
Jamshedpur:
East Singhbhum
deputy commissioner (DC) Ananya Mittal on Wednesday directed private English medium schools to complete the admission of candidates belonging to the
economically weaker section
(EWS) under the
Right to Education Act
(RTE)-2009 within three days.
This year, 3,094 applications were received against the 1,504 seats available for admission under the EWS quota in the over 60 English schools. A total of 1,303 candidates qualified.
However, only 726 got enrolled. The DC also asked the district education officials to inquire into the delay and verify if the reasons were genuine. Deliberate attempts to delay the admission of rightful candidates would prompt the administration to take action against the offending schools. The education department issued two links — https://jamshedpur.nic.in/ and https://forms.rteeastsinghbhum.com/applicationform/registered — to enable the parents to know the status of their children's admission by filling in the application form number and contact number.Notably, 25% seats are reserved for EWS candidates at the entry level under the RTE Act, 2009.
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