Source: News Track India
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education act that mandates unaided private schools keeping 25 percent of seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society.
However, the court made it clear that this quota would not be applicable to unaided minority institutions. The court said that the provision of 25 percent allocation of admission would apply to all aided school including aided minority school(s) receiving aid or grants to meet whole or part of its expenses from the appropriate government or the local authority.
The schools had contended that the reservation for children from vulnerable sections of society violated their right to run educational institutions without the state’s interference. They said that the admission to poor students would drain their resources and bring down their academic standards. This was contested by the government which had said that it reimburses the expenses incurred by these schools.