Admission Procedure

Q. Which children are eligible to apply for the 25% reserved seats?


The Act specifies that admission in the free seats should be offered to two categories of children defined as:

"child belonging to DISADVANTAGED GROUP" means a child belonging to the Scheduled Caste, the Scheduled Tribe, the socially and educationally backward class or such other group having disadvantage owing to social, cultural, economical, geographical, linguistic, gender or such other factor, as may be specified by the appropriate government, by notification;

"child belonging to WEAKER SECTION" means a child belonging to such parent or guardian whose annual income is lower than the minimum limit specified by the appropriate Government, by notification;"

Individual states and union territories have also issued rules which specify detailed eligibility criteria and family income limits for eligible children. For more details, please click on the location in the left sidebar.

Colloquially, in common parlance all eligible children for the 25% reserved seats are also referred to as belonging to the "economically weaker section" (EWS).


Q. What is the admission procedure for these free seats to eligible children?


The Ministry of Human Resource Development on 23rd November 2010 issued detailed instructions in its Guidelines on Procedure for School Admission Under RTE Act, 2009 which specifies that


".....schools shall follow a system of RANDOM SELECTION out of the applications received from children belonging to disadvantaged groups and weaker sections for filling the pre-determined number of seats in that class, which should be not less than 25% of the strength of the class."

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