JAIPUR: The education department is yet to disburse the first instalment of RTE reimbursement to over 20,000 private schools across the state. The amount fixed for RTE reimbursement per child is Rs 15,500 which is given in two instalments. The first instalment is released in September while the last instalment before March. Three months down the lines, schools await the release of first instalment.Most of the schools are those having moderate fees and are finding it difficult to meet the expenses. “Such schools who take all 25% students under this act are now feeling betrayed. These schools charge very nominal fees and don’t have a corpus fund in lakhs or crores. They require funds on the monthly basis to run the show,” said Pranjal Singh, RTE activist, who underlines that if this continues, schools will be discouraged to take students under this act.The RTE mandates that every school must take 25% students from the marginalized group and economically disadvantaged classes. State has inducted a total of 6.5 lakh students under this category. Vivekanand Vidhya Niketan, Jawahar Nagar has not received any reimbursement of the previous session. “I don’t understand why government is being so indifferent with the schools following the rule. Due to amount not released we have to suspend lot of activities like observing days and also to cut the expenses of annual day,” said Kishan Mittal of the school.Government officials have said that amount was released due to several reasons. “The physical verification of students admitted under the act in several schools is pending while in several schools it was found that they made false claims. Also, as the new government has formed it will be unwise from our part to take any major decision related to the finance,” said a government officer requesting anonymity. The total amount is worth crores of rupees.