Frame rules to enforce 25% EWS quota in private schools, says SC

Emphasising that granting admission to poor children in educational institutions “must be a national mission”, the Supreme Court has directed government authorities to frame rules to ensure effective implementation of the 25 per cent reservation for children from economically and socially weaker sections (EWS) in private unaided non-minority schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

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“...we direct the appropriate authorities to prepare and issue, in consultation with the NCPCR (National Commission for Protection of Child Rights) and SCPCRs (State Commissions), as the case may be, as well as the national and state advisory councils, necessary rules and regulations under Section 38 of the RTE Act for implementing the mandate of Section 12(1)(c) of the Act,” a Bench of Justice P S Narasimha and Justice Atul S Chandurkar said.