AHMEDABAD: Of the 62,985 candidates who made it to the merit list for Class 1 admission under the Right To Education (RTE) Act provisions, 56,749 admissions were confirmed by the guardians of these children till August 4.
“This means more than 6,200 applicants will not get admission this year as their admissions were not confirmed on time,” said an official privy to the development.
The admission process was carried out for 73,287 students based on which the first list of 62,985 students was prepared. Students who made it to the list had to confirm their admission by August 4.
Of the 26,000-odd applications that were rejected for admission in the RTE quota, 10,000 students were shortlisted after they were allowed to re-apply. The state education department had decided to give a second chance to students after receiving complaints that many applications were rejected due to issues in documentation. About 26,000 applications were rejected during the document scrutiny process.
More than 1.81 lakh applications were received under the Right To Education (RTE) Act for admission to Class 1. According to the RTE act, 25% of school admissions in Class 1 should be reserved under RTE for poor students.
