The plea, filed by Sandip Harshadray Munjyasara, through advocate Satya Mitra, has alleged that the state government was colluding with the schools to hide the data regarding the actual enrolment. The Act says 25 per cent of the seats in class I should be kept for children of weaker sections. If the stated number is less than the actual number of seats, then fewer such children have to be taken. It also asked for the enrolment list of general and weaker sections and disadvantaged group students enrolled school-wise for the specified years. The petitioner claimed that his research has revealed that over 1,000 schools had shown “zero strength” in Class I and over 4,000 schools “less than 40 students” as the strength in the same class.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2017 13:07 UTC