Private schools fall under RTI: Court
Mahendra Kumar Gupta
Private schools fall under RTI: Court
Abhinav Garg, TNN | May 3, 2013, 02.45 AM ISTNEW DELHI: In a major boost to transparency in school admissions, the Delhi high court has ruled that private unaided schools in the capital will be covered under the RTI Act.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher on Thursday dismissed the challenge by a federation of schools to Central Information Commission (CIC) order asking them to ensure that information regarding admission is made public. HC upheld the order asking schools to display information on total number of seats in a school, total vacancies in all classes, total seats under EWS quota, seats available under the quota, total applications received under the quota, information about when EWS quota applications will be received and date on which the admissions will take place. They have been asked to update the information on a weekly basis.
HC also directed the education director to ensure compliance of the court's directions. The schools however, did get limited relief from the court which agreed to their plea and exempted them from making public budget estimates of receipts, payments of the ensuing year, final accounts and the statement showing disbursement of salaries.
Delhi High Court tells private schools to make records public
By Sana Shakil
PUBLISHED:
18:32 GMT, 2 May 2013
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UPDATED:
23:38 GMT, 2 May 2013
The Delhi High Court has directed
private schools in the Capital to make records, including admission
details, available in public domain - an order that will force schools
to become more transparent in their functioning.
Justice
Rajiv Shakdher passed the order on a petition filed by the Delhi State
Public Schools Management Association, which had challenged the Central
Information Commission's (CIC) December 2010 order directing schools to
make their records public in both English and Hindi.
Schools will become more transparent in their functioning if records are made public, it is thought
The court upheld the CIC order and ruled that the schools will be covered under the Right to Information Act.
It also directed them to make their budgetary allocation available in
the public domain. Justice Shakdher made it clear that schools will have
to make public their admission details, such as the number of seats in
all classes, total vacancies, number of seats under the economically
weaker section (EWS) quota and total applications received under this
category.
The schools
have been directed to update the information on their notice boards
every week and to put up the notice boards at a place where people
outside the school premises can also read the information.
The details will also have to be uploaded on the Directorate of Education's (DoE) website.
The court has also directed the DoE to upload other information, such as management details of schools, on its website.
Information on who runs a particular school was earlier accessible to only top DoE officials, but now it would be known even to the general public.
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