It’s been close to two months since the new academic year began and schools are getting ready to conduct their first unit test exams. However, eight students who were given admission under the Right to Education (RTE) reservation quota in 2012 to MTS Khalsa High School in Goregaon, were asked to leave school on June 17 this year as the management had recently acquired minority status. Under the RTE act, 25 per cent seats for students from socially and economically weaker sections of the society had to be reserved in all private and other types of schools. However, the Supreme Court in 2012 ruling had said that minority institutions do not have to follow this rule. 

Six of the eight students who were denied entry to the MTS Khalsa High School. File Pic