Over 7,500 school managements from the state will challenge the Supreme Court directive on the Right to Education Act with a review petition.

Over 7,500 school managements from the state will challenge the Supreme Court directive on the Right to Education Act with a review petition, reported Times Of India.



After the apex court upheld the constitutional validity of the RTE making it mandatory for all categories of public and private schools except unaided minority schools to reserve 25 percent seats for weaker sections, school managements stated that their business will be affected and will now approach the court within a month.

The Madras High Court today served a notice on the Centre and state government on a plea seeking a direction not to make some sections of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 and certain other rules applicable to a minority school in Tirunelveli.

Admitting the writ petition in this regard, Justice K Venkataram issued notice to the Centre and the state government while posting the case for 24 April.

The petitioner S S Hassan Aboobacker, Manager and Administrator of Rehamania Higher secondary school at Melayapalayam, submitted that a section stated that parents and guardian of children need not be subjected to any kind of screening. However, being a minority educational institution, they were entitled to adopt any means of admission of students.

Listing some sections and rules which "violated" equal protection of law, the petitioner said his school was declared a minority institution.

Already during the implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan scheme ,the government insisted on forming school management committee,and when a writ was filed against the Government order,the court granted interim stay, the petitioner said.

The objective of the rules was to intervene in the day-to-day administration of the minority school,and hence they should not be made applicable to it, the petitioner submitted.

With inputs from PTI