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Karnataka High Court:<\/strong> While relying upon the Bombay High Court decision in Vikhe Patil\u00a0Foundation\u2019s Vikhe Patil Memorial School<\/em> v. Union of India<\/em>, 2015 SCC OnLine Bom 4732<\/a>, the Single Bench of S. Sujatha, J.\u00a0has held that the compulsory admission of minimum 25% in Class-I, or pre-school (LKG) of the\u00a0children belonging to disadvantageous section and the simultaneous entry to both levels is within\u00a0the framework of the Right to Education Act.<\/p>\n

Section 12(1)(c) of the RTE Act provides that a school specified in Section (2)(n)(iii) and (iv), shall\u00a0admit in class-I, at least 25% of the strength of that class, children belonging to disadvantageous\u00a0section. The Proviso appended thereto reads: \u201cprovided further that where a school imparts pre-school education, clause (c) shall apply for admission to such pre-school education.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Karnataka Government Order further prescribed that in schools imparting pre-primary education,\u00a0and having higher strengths in Class-I as compared to LKG, total number of reserved seats shall\u00a0be 25% of strength in class-I, where number of seats reserved for LKG shall be 25% of strength\u00a0of LKG, and for Class-I shall be the difference between total number of reserved seats and seats\u00a0reserved for LKG. Petitioners contended that the proviso to a section carves out an exception and\u00a0it cannot be used to import into the enacting part something which is not there. Thus, the\u00a0modification of the entry level mentioned in Section 12(1)(c) i.e. Class I to pre-primary was\u00a0illegal. In arguendo, it was submitted that in schools imparting pre-primary education there was\u00a0only one entry level at LKG, and State Government could not divide the reserved seats between\u00a0class-I and LKG.<\/p>\n

The Court noted that the use of the word \u2018further\u2019 in the proviso indicated the legislative intent of Parliament to read the provision in addition to clause (c), not as an exception, and thus there\u00a0was no illegality therein. The Court further observed that many schools had tried to evade\u00a0admissions under the RTE by starting pre-primary in their schools with substantially lower\u00a0strength than that of Class-I. Hence, the determination of the number of reserved seats as per the government order was justifiable. The writ petitions were accordingly dismissed. [Soujanya\u00a0Patel Trust v. State of Karnataka, 2017 SCC OnLine Kar 1001<\/a>, decided on \u00a017-4-2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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