US MUMBAI: A day after the Bombay high court stayed the State’s Feb amendment to the Right to Education (RTE) rules,

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MUMBAI: A day after the Bombay high court stayed the State’s Feb amendment to the Right to Education (RTE) rules, the Maharashtra govt on Tuesday recalibrated its stand in two additional circulars that prescribed certain schools to enroll themselves as ones where 25 percent seats would be for weaker and disadvantaged students in the first standard and for parents to give a preference of schools
The circulars were issued in March and April. A petition was filed by one NGO Vidhyak Bharti through counsel Swanand Ganoo challenging them as unconstitutional and also against the mandate of the RTE Act by creating an additional 25 percent reservation in schools which anyway have to reserve 25 percent seats for disadvantaged neighbourhood children for first standard admissions. State’s lawyer Jyoti Chavan said a clarification would be issued and the circulars modified.