With less than a week to go for the online application process for admissions under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act quota for the next academic year, private school managements have threatened to not co-operate with the process.

For, the Department of Public Instruction has to pay them Rs. 165 crore for reimbursing private schools who have admitted 2.11 lakh children from economically weak and socially disadvantaged backgrounds. While the first instalment was due in September, the second instalment is due in January.

D. Shashi Kumar, general secretary, Associated Managements of English-Medium School, said 1,200 private schools would not co-operate in the RTE admission process, which is all set to go online for the first time this year.

Application process

The application process will begin from January 18.

Most parents who wish to apply under the quota said it would be meaningless if the schools do not co-operate during the admission process.