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MADURAI: A public interest litigation petition was filed before the Madurai bench of Madras high court seeking to remove the mandatory conditions of filling religion, caste and Aadhaar number in the Educational Management Information System ( EMIS ) online registration procedure during school admission.

In the petition, V Janaki of Madurai said the private school, in which her daughter was studying, recently asked for details for updating the EMIS registration. The registration, she said, was mandatory and was managed by the school education department. EMIS details would be mentioned in all documents including transfer certificate, which could not be changed irrespective of change in educational institutions, she added.

While several fields were optional, those including religion, social category (caste) and community were marked mandatory, though mentioning the caste was optional as per a government order issued by the school education department, the petitioner pointed out. Despite the court's verdict on the Aadhaar, the same had been marked mandatory in EMIS registration.

The petitioner sought a direction from the court for the removal of fields such as religion, social category (caste), community and Aadhaar number during the EMIS registration procedure. When the petition was heard on Tuesday, a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice S S Sundar issued notice to the concerned authorities.

