NewsKarnataka-Moodbidri

Moodbidri : Though the Right to Education Act makes it mandatory for all aided and unaided private primary schools to reserve 25 per cent of the seats for children from disadvantaged groups and weaker sections,  there is information that three schools of Moodbidri have declined to  offer seats  under the RTE quota thereby trying to snatch the right to education.

Though the Block  Education office has made it clear that the rule is applicable to all the 13 primary schools in Moodbidri excluding two minority institutions, the Mount Carmel Primary Unaided School of  Moodbidri, Mount Carmel East Primary School of Shirthady and  St Thomas School of Alangar have declined to enrol children on the grounds that they are minority institutions.

They have already written to the  Block Education Officer asking to exempt them from the purview of the Right to Education Act.

In reality, only those schools which have been recognised as minority institutions by the government at the time of their registration are entitled for exemption. As the three schools have not produced the relevant documents, the Block Education Officer has written to the DDPI for further action.

The DDPI is learnt to have written to the Education Commissioner and   his reply is awaited.