MUMBAI: Chiding a Navi Mumbai school for refusing to admit poor students in its pre-primary section under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) unless the government reimburses their fees, the Bombay high court on Monday said a school is a not a commercial venture."Don’t treat school as a commercial business. It is a divine thing," said a bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice Mahesh Sonak. It rebuked the Uran Education Society’s English Medium School, which said the government owes it nearly Rs 51 lakh towards fees of 450 students for the last three academic years.The school did not admit student in the mini-kindergarten of its pre-primary section in June. It moved the HC after the Education Department threatened to derecognize it and urged the court to declare that private unaided schools are not bound to admit students in pre-primary section under RTE unless the government clear their dues.But the bench was miffed and said it does not appreciate the school’s stand. "It (school) is not a commercial venture aimed at making money," said Justice Chellur. The judges said RTE is a constitutional right and everyone, including the court, has a social obligation to fulfill it.The school's advocate Birendra Saraf submitted that in April 2015, the HC had directed the government to reimburse the fees in respect of the pre-primary division and despite the order till date the government has not paid up. He said the school will open admissions on Tuesday itself and does not treat this as adversarial litigation.Saraf urged the authorities not to take any coercive action against the school. The judges said the school must first comply with the provisions of the RTE Act. "You have not only breached provisions of the (RTE) Act. You come before the court and say, 'I’m not going to obey the law'," said Justice Sonak. "Till I get my money," added Justice Chellur. The education authorities are directed to submit a list of students to be admitted.