[1]Setting at rest recent controversy, all schools, irrespective of the boards they are affiliated to, on Thursday agreed to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act and reserve 25 per cent of their seats for underpriveleged children, following an assurance from the government that their problems would be looked into.
The turnaround by some of the schools which had shut down for a couple of days in protest against certain provisions of the Act, came at a meeting called on Thursday by primary and secondary education minister, Vishweshwar Hegade Kageri, in the backdrop of a row kicked off by claims of RTE quota students that they were discriminated against at the Oxford Indian School in Nandini Layout and tufts of their hair cut. Present were representatives of KUSMA, CBSE/ICSE schools and other organisations.
Speaking to reporters, Mr Kageri said all schools had agreed to implement the RTE. “Government is committed to protecting the schools,” he said.
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