Bharatiya Janata Party members petitioned District Collector K. S. Palanisamy on Monday seeking steps to ensure transparency in the private school admissions for poor students as stipulated under the Right To Education (RTE) guidelines.

BJP’s state executive member K.C.M.B. Sreenivasan said the party made the representation in the context that the online system, introduced to obtain admissions under RTE quota, was not functioning at present.

“With the private schools set to close the admissions shortly for the 2018-19 academic year, we fear that the school managements will utilise the faulty online system as an excuse to violate the RTE stipulations”, he added.

The party also had asked for field level supervisions by Education department officials to ensure that every private school sticks to the RTE guidelines irrespective of whether the online system developed snags or not.