Admission of Children in Govt. Schools /Model Schools, 2017
School Education, Admission , RTE
Government of West Bengal
School Education Department
Elementary Education Branch
Bikash Bhawan, 5th Floor, Salt Lake
Kolkata – 700 091
No. 822-SE(EE)/10M-186/2010 Dated, the 24th November, 2016.
MEMORANDUM
The following methodology shall he followed for admission of children in elementary classes including Pre-Primary Class in all Government schools including Model schools and integrated schools for the academic session – 2017
i) As per provision of RTE Act, 2009, no child or his/her parents or guardian will be subjected to any kind of screening procedure. All children from 6-14 years shall be admitted to their age appropriate classes in neighbour-hood schools and elementary education including pre-primary education shall be provided to them free of cost.
ii) It has been decided that admission in elementary classes including preprimary class shall be done through draw of lots if number of candidates seeking admission to a class is more than the number of seats available for admission.
Mode of conducting draw of lots shall be as follows:
(a) At first a general draw of lots from amongst all applicants praying for admission irrespective of category [viz. SC/ST/OBC(A)/OBC(B) etc.] is to be done to select the unreserved candidates.
(b) Thereafter a series of draw of lots from the left over applications are to be arranged category-wise to till up the reserved seats.
Category-wise percentages of reserved seats are as below:
Scheduled Caste-22%, Scheduled Tribe-6%, OBC(A)-10%. OBC(B)-7% and Children with Special Need-3%.
It may be mentioned here in this connection that if seats reserved for SC remain unfilled by SC candidates they may be filled by ST candidates and vice versa. However, after completion of the aforesaid exercise if more seats are available which could not be filled up due to non-availability of SC/ST candidate they should be taken in the unreserved pool. Moreover seats meant of OBC(A) and OBC(B) candidates if could not be filed up due to non-availability of OBC(A) and OBC(B) candidates will also be taken in the unreserved pool. Such unreserved seats shall be filled by candidates as per norm. For this a waiting list may be maintained in the first draw of lots as at (ii)(a) above.
iii) Children seeking admission for pre-primary class shall be 5 years of age or above and below 6 years as on 01.01.2017. All children of the age of 6-14 years shall be admitted to their age appropriate classes.
District Inspector of Schools (PE) shall ensure that no child in the above age group in the district is left out of the process of admission to his/her age appropriate class in a school nearer to his/her residence, as required in RTE.
Any school which wishes to increase the number of seats may send proposal to the Department. This may be communicated to all concerned for strict compliance.
Sd/- D. Nariala
Secretary
School Education Department.