RTE: Rejected students to get admission

MUMBAI: Students, who were refused admission to seats reserved under the Right to Education (RTE) Act because they had submitted fake income certificates, will get

MUMBAI: Students, who were refused admission to seats reserved under the Right to Education (RTE) Act because they had submitted fake income certificates, will get a second chance. The state’s education department has asked city schools to complete the admission process of these students if they have obtained a bonafide income certificate.

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Deputy secretary of school education, Suvarna Kharat wrote to the deputy directorate of education on August 1 to ensure that these orders are followed. “Few schools cancelled admissions of students as they submitted fake certificates. But, in some cases, the documents were genuine and some of them produced authentic documents later. So it must be ensured that students, whose documents are in order or were corrected later, are admitted to the 25% quota seats,” read the letter.

BB Chavan, deputy director of education, Mumbai region, recently forwarded the letter to the five schools which did not comply with the directions. However, the Unaided Schools Forum, which comprises 250 schools, complained to CM Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday alleging that the director asked them to admit all the students who submit fake certificates.

“Vide letter dated 26.7.2016 [deputy director of education] ordered schools not to cancel such RTE admissions for the academic year 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 whose parents have submitted fake income proofs (sic),” read the letter.

Chavan said, “The allegations are false. We have not asked the schools to complete admissions where income certificates are fake. Our letter is worded according to the deputy secretary’s letter.”