Parents opt for address change in Aadhaar cards for RTE seats
| Date :09-May-2019 |
Staff Reporter:
Bhilai
Parents are applying for change in address in Aadhaar card to get Right To Education(RTE) quota seats. The most sought after address are in some sectors of Bhilai Township, Nehru Nagar and Hudco in Bhilai and Padmanabhpur as well as civil lines in Durg. Officials have observed a spell of address changes on Aadhaar cards in these wards. These wards come under Bhilai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Durg Municipal Corporation (DMC) limits where parents are eligible to apply for seats in unaided schools under the RTE quota. This comes against the backdrop of the State government amending the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) rules.
With this, a child can be admitted to a private school under the quota only if there is no government or aided school in the locality. It is mandatory for the child as well as either parent to submit Aadhaar details for a seat under the RTE quota. In BMC, sector 6 and Hospital Sector or Hudco has maximum number of private unaided schools with CBSE affiliation; all of them have LKG as the entry point. Similarly in Nehru Nagar and Sunder Nagar, there are numerous private unaided schools and all of them offer admission to students under RTE in LKG or nursery. Similarly in Ispat Nagar and its surroundings there are 5 unaided schools and parents are also trying their luck in these places too.
About 22% of the total applications across the district for a seat under the RTE quota have been filled from Bhilai city both township as well as Supela and Powerhouse. According to the officials, 45% applications received from across the district are from Bhilai. In order to change address in the Aadhaar card, an applicant has to submit one of the original documents mandated by the Unique Identification Authority of India. Dinesh Basin, convener of the RTE task force, said, ‘some parents may have actually moved to these wards to get a seat.
But there may be many who have fudged documents to get their address changed. This is something that the Department of education needs to monitor, and ensure that only genuine candidates get a seat’ he pointed. Amit Ghosh, in-charge of RTE admissions in education department asserted that they would not be able to check whether the parents had actually moved to these wards.Hemant Upadhayay, District Education Officer told this newspaper that there is strict inspection and checking of documents for RTE applications and if anyone is found to be involved in such manipulations the education department will definitely take serious action.