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Principals to face the heat over quota for poor students
Updated On: 27 November, 2012 06:57 AM IST | | Niranjan Medhekar
Officials of the state education department are contemplating action against private schools for failing to admit students under the 25% quota, which is reserved for students from economically weaker sections, under the RTE Act
Taking a stern note of private schools still not implementing the Right To Education (RTE) Act, which says that 25 per cent of the seats in private schools must be reserved for poor students, the state education department is mulling action against schools that don’t follow the rule.

Clearing doubts: Additional chief secretary of state education department, J S Saharia, speaks at the meeting yesterday
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