Nagpur updates: Record-breaking applications for RTE admission in Nagpur with seats available for the academic session 2020-21 were oversubscribed by 457%. The deadline for this session on? expired. The online database of the Education department issued 31,043 requests for 6,785 seats.
The department of education is expected to announce online lottery dates soon after which the admission process will begin. To ensure consistency in the process the RTE admission process is entirely online. The device is run by Pune but the initial installation is performed locally.
The lottery program uses a special logic algorithm that gets its initial starting grid by numbers randomly picked by students at a public event organized by the department of education in Nagpur. Students fill the number grids with chits that are placed in four different bowls.
Students are then summoned to pick up chits one at a time and enter the digit into the grid. Education officials and parents check the number before reaching the grid and there is no disagreement later. When the grid is full it is shown on a widescreen and parents have been asked to click on a screen image, if they need it.
Then officials at Pune will feed these grid numbers into the lottery program and this will decide the fate of applicants.
RTE activist Shahid Sharif said once the results have been published that if parents find any anomalies they will contact authorities. “I’m part of the RTE Verification Committee and if some form of admissions fraud is discovered, parents visit this site a lot. Often admissions are made using false documents, and they need to report these activities, “Sharif said.
The biggest obstacle for RTE admissions will be the boycott of non-payment of RTE dues by several private schools. Independent English Schools Association (IESA) has announced that this session will have more than 20,000 seats left out of RTE’s admission ambit.
