Surat: More trouble for parents who forged documents for admission under RTE

After reviewing the study and documents specified arsenic income impervious of parents, DEO Parmar personally heard implicit 250 parents and recovered that a fig of them were good disconnected with immoderate owning businesses and having the means to question abroad.

Several parents apologised and, successful written documents submitted to the DEO, confessed that they had presented their income arsenic little than what it really was successful the papers required to unafraid admittance nether RTE.

Sources successful the DEO said that these parents owned bungalows, luxurious flats and cars, and had taken slope loans of Rs 35 to 50 lakh. Sources said that the DEO officials besides collected the energy bills from these houses and recovered them to beryllium comparatively high.

After the idiosyncratic gathering with the parents, the Surat DEO had, during the past week of December 2024, cancelled the admittance of 100 students successful the RTE quota from the adjacent world year.

In a missive to the schools, the DEO said, “During spot sojourn and verification of assorted parents, it was recovered that determination were discrepancies successful the income impervious documents submitted by the parents. During the hearing, the parents confessed to having much income than shown successful the income-proof documents submitted portion securing admission. So, (admission of) the mentioned 28 students studying successful your schoolhouse nether the RTE Act should beryllium cancelled by the extremity of the world year. Along with this, the schoolhouse principals are told to instrumentality ineligible actions against the parents of specified students.”

Talking to The Indian Express, DEO Parmar said, “We person told schoolhouse authorities to instrumentality ineligible actions against the parents of 68 students retired of 100. Process with respect to the remaining 32 students is successful progress. We person already instructed schoolhouse authorities to cancel the admittance of 100 students by the extremity of the contiguous world year.”