Mumbai : Learning from its past mistakes, the civic body’s education department is planning to start admissions to 25 percent seats in private unaided schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act early for the next academic year.
The process is expected to begin this month for the academic year beginning from June 2017. While classes had begun in June, this year the process went on from March till September. The previous year it had continued till December-January.
It is a time consuming process with the schools having to register first, followed by parents who register for their children’s admission after which the seats are allotted and finally the admission process entails three rounds. This academic year, out of the over 6,000 who were alloted seats, only around 2,500 finally took admission.
Officials said parents had not shown interest to approach schools as they had not got a school of their preference, while there were complaints that many schools were denying admissions. Parents admitted children to either a civic or private school since the RTE admission process was being indefinitely delayed, besides some schools turning down the admissions.
Schools had to update the admission status of children alloted seats on the education department’s website.
