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In its commitment to uplift the weaker sections, the Yogi Adityanath government has issued instructions for smooth admission of the eligible children in recognised unaided private schools in the 2021-22 academic session under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
In a bid to provide better, equal and accessible education to the needy and deprived children, the Yogi government has asked the officials concerned to ensure that the second phase of the admission process under the RTE Act, which is to begin from April 6, is carried out with transparency even during the challenging time of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Under the RTE application process, which is being conducted in three phases in UP, as many as 54,727 eligible children have been allotted schools in the first phase.
Under Section 12.1.c of the RTE Act, children belonging to economically weaker sections (EWS) and disadvantaged groups are required to be admitted in recognised unaided private schools to the extent of 25 per cent of the total capacity of their entry level classes, either pre-primary or class 1.
The admission process is completed when the lotteries are drawn on the applications.
School mapping is an exercise useful to rationally allocate educational facilities of any type related to any level of education. Even during the pandemic, the work of mapping the schools across the state has been extensively carried out  because of which a total of 34,483 schools have been identified across UP for taking admissions under the RTE Act and they will now provide over 4,07,978 seats to the eligible and needy children.
According to officials, a large number of applications for admissions under the RTE Act were received even amidst the pandemic and the admission process for 67 per cent of the seats in schools has already been completed in the first phase.
Under the RTE Act, applications were received for the maximum admissions in about 10 districts of the state that include Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, Aligarh, Moradabad, Gorakhpur, Ghaziabad, Agra, Gautam Buddha Nagar and Saharanpur.