‘Migrants misusing Aadhaar card criteria to get admission in private schools’

Mysuru: With an amendment made to the RTE Act that makes it mandatory to consider Aadhaar card in the selection of students for seats in private schools under the RTE (Right To Education) quota, parents are apprehensive that the amendment will render injustice to deserving students.

The parents have objected to an Education Department Circular that Aadhaar card must be considered for selecting the beneficiary students under RTE.

The parents alleged that migrants, misusing Aadhaar card criteria are getting Aadhaar cards according to the residential address of their convenience, in order to get admission in private schools. The parents of ineligible children have been exerting pressure on private school managements not to seek other address proofs and consider only Aadhaar card, they say.

Expressing apprehension that considering only Aadhaar card as address proof will facilitate the migrants to get admission for their wards in schools under RTE quota, the parents have urged the Chief Minister, who also holds Primary and Secondary Education portfolio, to tighten norms for selecting RTE seat beneficiaries and to ensure that genuine applicants do not get a raw deal in RTE admissions.