After hitting many hurdles this year, there is finally some progress in the online admissions procedure under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Following the intervention of the Bombay High Court, schools are finally confirming admissions of students who were allotted seats in the first and second rounds of the admission process.

After the education department completed the two rounds of online admissions, hundreds of students were still without seats, despite over 7,000 seats lying vacant under the quota. “We had submitted a list
of close to 370 names of students who were allotted seats, but the schools had refused to confirm them.