Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president Okay. Selvaperunthagai on Wednesday mentioned that SC/ST, OBC, and economically weaker college students wanting to hitch personal colleges as per the provisions of the Proper to Training (RTE) Act, 2009, have been dealing with a number of obstacles, and urged the Tamil Nadu authorities to watch the admission course of within the State.
In an announcement, Mr. Selvaperunthagai mentioned quite a few points forestall college students from the marginalised sections from making use of the provisions of the RTE Act.
“The web site by way of which college students can apply for admissions doesn’t work the way in which it ought to. The faculties additionally don’t make any announcement on their discover boards about admissions primarily based on reservations. Additionally, based on the RTE Act, college students must stay near the faculties (1 km radius), and plenty of functions are rejected primarily based on this rule,” he mentioned.
Mr. Selvaperunthagai mentioned that round 1 lakh college students ought to be admitted in 8,000 colleges, and that these hailing from households with earnings lower than ₹2 lakh per yr additionally face points throughout admission. “There have been stories of scholars from the SC/ST and backward courses discovering it troublesome to get an admission due to this earnings clause,” he mentioned.
