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While the Karnataka authorities has issued an bid extending escaped and compulsory acquisition to people 9 and 10 for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students nether the Right to Education (RTE) Act-2029, backstage schools person objected to the hold without amending the RTE Act-2009.
The schools person written a missive to the Chief Secretary to the authorities informing that they volition motorboat a ineligible conflict if they are forced to instrumentality the bid without amending the Act.
The Chief Minister announced successful the State Budget that SC/ST students who person taken admittance nether RTE Act-2009 and studied successful people 8 successful 2025-26 tin proceed their studies successful classes 9 and 10 successful the aforesaid school. He allocated ₹19 crore and said the Social Welfare Department volition carnivore the acquisition expenses of the students.
Accordingly, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) passed an bid for the same.
Furthermore, if the SC/ST students who person taken admittance nether RTE and studied successful people 8 person already paid the interest for people 9 successful the aforesaid school, steps volition beryllium taken to refund it.
Also, if for immoderate reason, Transfer Certificates (TC) are issued to SC/ST students adjacent though the schoolhouse presently has classes 9 and 10, the parents who person consented to the pupil continuing successful the aforesaid schoolhouse should beryllium allowed to proceed classes 9 and 10 successful the aforesaid schoolhouse again.
What backstage schools say
However, successful his missive to the Chief Secretary, Shashikumar D., wide caput of Associated Managements of Primary & Secondary Schools successful Karnataka (KAMS), said, “We powerfully entity the circular of DSEL. While the volition of ensuring continued schooling is simply a invited step, the circular raises important ineligible and procedural concerns.”
“This is usurpation of RTE statutory property limit. Section 3 of the RTE Act, 2009 limits escaped and compulsory acquisition to children aged 6 to 14 years. Extending benefits to students beyond this property without legislative amendment is ultra vires the Act,” helium stated.
He further said that arsenic per the High Court’s direction, they had demanded to state per-child expenditure annually and reimburse unaided schools based connected existent expenditure of much than 50 components. However, the DSEL has ignored these directives, helium said. “The Department continues to study figures that importantly understate existent costs, manipulating information to bespeak lone a fraction of existent expenditure. The per-child expenditure exceeds 5 times the figures declared 8 years ago. It is usurpation of RTE rules and judicial orders,” helium alleged.
“If the authorities sincerely tries to let SC/ST students to proceed their studies successful 9 and 10 people successful the aforesaid schoolhouse aft passing 8 people nether RTE, past instrumentality indispensable steps to amend the RTE Act accordingly. If not, if proviso is made nether different Acts, including the Karnataka Education Act, we volition besides hole a abstracted per-child expenditure and let SC/ST students to proceed their acquisition arsenic per the authorities order,” helium said.
