Vivek High School derecognised over EWS admissions

The Chandigarh administration on Wednesday de-recognised Vivek High School, Sector 38 for not giving admission to EWS students in 2023-24 and for not committing to do so in the 2024-25 session either. The UT’s order says the school, despite repeated requests by the department, chose not to participate in the centralised EWS admissions for 2023-24 and denied right of admission to 28 EWS/DG category students. The department said all ISA non-minority school members barring Vivek High School have confirmed that they will be admitting, EWS students in their entry level classes in the next session In response to the show-cause notice, the school had claimed that the provisions of the RTE Act are only applicable once the department grants recognition to the school under the provisions of RTE Act for which the school has applied first in the year 2013 and school inspection was carried out by the department on March 29 this year and they were awaiting its report. The UT’s order says if the school submits an undertaking to the effect that it is ready to give admission to students belonging to EWS/DG category for the 2024-2025 academic session unconditionally to the extent of 25% in its entry-level class of pre-primary-1 and gives its consent to participate in the department’s centralised online EWS admissions, both no later than January 9 2024, this order shall deemed to be withdrawn and the department will re-consider the school application for recognition under the RTE Act.