Notification for admission of children in Class I
Notification for admission of children in Class I
Notification for admission of children in Class I under Section 12(1) (C) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 for the academic year 2023-24 for all Private Unaided Schools (IB/ICSE/CBSE/State syllabus) in Andhra Pradesh - Orders
ORDER:
One of the
features of the Right
of Children to Free
and Compulsory Education Act
2009 is to
provide access and affordability for the children
belonging to disadvantaged groups
and weaker sections
towards 25% seats
in Private Unaided Schools in the
country.
2. In
the State of Andhra Pradesh, 100%
affordability to the private
unaided school is
being provided to
all the children belonging to
disadvantaged groups and weaker
sections in the State
through Ammavodi Scheme.
3. For the
accessibility towards 25% of seats
of Private Un- aided schools
as per Section 12(1) (C) of the
Right of Children to Free
and Compulsory Education
Act 2009, for the children of disadvantaged groups and weaker sections, the process is being taken up through
online by issuing this
notification.
4. Accordingly, Government hereby issue the Notification
for admission of children
under 12 (1)
(C) of the Right
of Children to Free
and Compulsory Education
Act 2009 for allotment of 25%
of seats in
Class I, in
all Private Un
aided Schools following IB/ICSE/CBSE/State syllabus, for the
academic year 2023-24 for all
the Private Un-aided
schools in the
State. The detailed schedule
for admissions is as follows
(i) In
order to apply for admission against 25%
reserved seats in all
private un-aided schools (IB/ICSE/CBSE/State syllabus
following Private Un• aided
Schools) under the
Act, parent / guardian
of eligible children may visit the online portal
http://cse.ap.gov.in and apply
themselves or with the support of the Headmaster/ Principal
of the school concerned or Mandal
Education Officer (MEO)/
Village and Ward Secretariat. The
Parent/guardian of the eligible children
shall select multiple
schools for admission of their child as per his/her choice in order of priority.
(ii) (a)
Details of help desks for facilitating the application process;
(b)
Toll-free helpline number14417is provided
for redressing the issues
during and after
the admission process;
( c) The
Manda I
Educational Officers and
District Educational
Officers shall have
separate login links for the
porta I.
(d) First
those applications shall
be considered where the
residence tagged Grama
Sachivalayam is within 1 km of
the radius from the
school. Thereafter the applicants residing
within the range
of 3 km
radius from the schools
shall be taken into
consideration.
(e) Within
the neighborhood criterion
of 1 km
and 3 km
distance, preference will
be given to
children who have siblings
studying in the
same school.
(f) If the applications of sibling
category, in neighborhood range of 0-1 km are
in excess of the seats
of General Category,
the draw of
lots of all sibling
applications (which have
residence tagged Grama Sachivalayam
within 1 km), shall
be conducted to admit
the students against
the number of available seats.
(g) If the
applications of sibling category
within 0-1 km are
less than the
seats of non-DG/EWS
category and if seats
still remain vacant
after exhausting sibling applications, the
school shall admit
the students on the basis
of draw of
lots from the remaining applications received
under the neighborhood range of 0-
1 km.
(h) In
case the total applications
of 0-1 km is
less than the number of seats of non-DG/EWS category, and
vacancies still remain
unfilled after exhausting the applications from the distance range of 0-1
km, the applications from
the second
neighborhood distance range of more than
1 km and up
to 3 km shall be considered
in the above manner i.e.
out of the total applications
from the neighborhood
range of more than 1
km and up to 3
km, admission will be given
to all siblings.
(i) If
the applications of
sibling category, in neighborhood range of
more than 1 km up
to 3 km are in excess
of the vacant seats
of non-DG/EWS category, the draw of all sibling applications (which have residence
tagged Grama Sachivalayam
within
3 km),
shall be conducted
to admit the
students against the number of
vacant seats.
(j) If the
applications of sibling category
within 3 km are less than the remaining vacant seats
of General Category and if seats still remain
vacant after exhausting
sibling applications, the
school shall admit the
students on the
basis of draw
of lots from the
remaining applications received
under the neighborhood range of
more than 1 km and
up to 3 km.
(k) If vacancies still
remain unfilled after
exhausting the applications from
the distance range
of more than 1
km and up
to 3 km,
the applications from beyond
the range of
neighborhood of more than
3 km shall be considered in
the above manner.
(I) All
the Private Un-aided schools following
IB/ICSE/CBSE/State
shall reserve
25% syllabus
of seats in Andhra
Pradesh
in Class-1
for the
Academic Year 2023-24
for implementation of RTE
12(1)(C) as
per the rule
(1) of G.O.Ms.No.129, School Education (Prog-11)
Dept, dt.15.07.2022, without deviation.
6.Help
Desk:
(a) District Educational Officer/ Mandal
Educational Officer shall ensure that no charges are incurred from
parents/guardians for the services
offered at the help• desk.
These services shall
be a part
of the role and responsibilities of the
District Educational Officer
Mandal Educational
Officer and schools
and a voluntary service by
the interested NGOs.
(b) The
helpdesk shall stay
functional till the completion
of the admission process
for the particular
academic sessions.
(c) Service for submission of application is also provided at every village/ ward secretariats in the
state at free of cost.
7. Eligibility
Criteria for Admission:
Eligibility of
children for admissions under Section
12(1)(c)
of the Act
shall be determined under
Rule 9 of
the Andhra
Pradesh Right of
Children to Free And
Compulsory Education
Rules, 2010 read
with G.O.Ms.No.50 SE (Prog-ID), dt.01.10.2020 and G.O.Ms.No.63, School
Education (Prog.ll) Department, dt.28.12.2020
which is about six step
validation.
The order
of preference shall be
followed by the schools covered under
RTE Act 2009
in admitting the
children in the State.
(a) Disadvantaged groups:
Orphan, HIV
affected and disabled
SC - 5%
- 10%
ST - 4%
(b) Weaker sections which
includes others
Viz.,
BC, Minorities, OCs(whose annual
Income
does not exceed Rs: 1,20,000/-
Per annum) in Rural
and Rs: 1,44,000/-
Per annum in
Urban Area - 6%
Total - 25%
Note: 1) The above
arrangement of reservation in sequential order
is applicable to all unaided
private schools in plain area.
Where orphans, HIV
affected and the disabled
are not available
or available only
to a certain extent,
such vacancies will
be filled by STs and
SCs. After exhausting
all applications for admission of Orphans, HIV
affected and the disabled, SC and
ST, if any
seats remain unfilled such seats
will be added
to the percentage
of weaker sections.
2) In Tribal areas, all ST Children should be admitted first. After exhausting applications
of ST Children, SC Children may
be admitted. After exhausting the SC
and ST Children
the remaining seats
will be filed by others.
8. Procedure for submission of
application online: Detailed procedure
for applying ONLINE
is available in
the website
http://cse.ap.gov.in. The parent/guardian can down load the
Information at free
of cost from
the website w.e.f. 06.03.2023 onwards
and they can
submit their applications online from
18.03.2023 to 07.04.2023.
(i) The List
of valid documents required
for the application process as
proof of residence tagged Grama sachivalayam
shall include any
one of the following:
a. UID-
Aadhaar Card of Parent/ Guardian /Child
b.
Voter Identity card
C. Electricity Bill
d. Driving
License
e. Copy
of Rent Agreement
f. Rice
Card
g. Certificate
from Tehsildar/Local Authority
h. Certificate from Child Welfare Committee (CWC), in case of children declared CNCP or CICL are residing in a
Child Care Institution (CCI).The
Aadhar number can be sought as
per provisions under the Aadhaar.
(ii) Other essential documents for
ascertaining the eligibility criterion
a. For the
children with disability,
certificate issued by the persons having requisite
qualifications and experience as certifying
authorities, designated by the Government or as the case may
be, as per the Guidelines
for Evaluation and
Procedure for Certification of
Various Specified Disabilities notified under
the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (RPwD)
Act, 2016 (SADAREM Certificate is to
be uploaded)
b. Children
infected or affected
with HIV/AIDs, will also
have to submit
their own or
the medical certificates of
their parents (Medical certificate
is to be uploaded issued by the
DMHO concerned).
c. Transgender children
shall submit a
medical certificate issued by
Civil surgeon/ Superintendent of Government notified hospitals as a proof of their eligibility under
the provision.
d. The certificates
that shall be valid as a birth certificate includes
all proof valid under the Aadhaar
(Enrolment and Update)
Regulations, 2016;
Hospital/Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife (ANM) register record; Anganwadi
record; Declaration through an
affidavit of the age of
the child by the
parent or guardian
9. AFTER
COMPLETION OF THE ADMISSION PROCESS
a) The
portal shall contain
a school-wise list
of children who got selected
through the lottery
process. The school will then update the status of admission of each child by
selecting whether the
child has taken admission or not.
b) The school
shall individually approach
the parents/guardian of each child for completing the admission process.
c) If
the parent of
the child to
whom seat has
been allotted is not
traceable by the school
for seven days, this may
be treated as
a dispute and
referred to District Admission
Monitoring Committee (DAMC). After the decision
of DAMC, the seat
may be released for admission
of children in the waiting list.
d) In
case the aggrieved
party is not
satisfied by the decision
of DAMC, the
District Collector / Magistrate shall be the
final appellate authority.
e) In
case any dispute is
noted against a specific school, the DAMC may
take suomoto cognizance
and initiate inquiry.
f) Any
issues with regard
to documents shall
be taken up by the DAMC.
g) Even
after the completion of above
stated process, if there is any seat vacant in any
private school from the earmarked quota of 25 % seats, government
will be competent to allot
the vacant seats
to eligible children through
any method as it
deems fit. The
idea is, under no circumstances no earmarked
seats for the children of
disadvantage group and
weaker section should remain
vacant.
Appeal:
a) Any parent/guardian can file grievance to the
District Admission Monitoring Committee
(DAMC) within 07 days from
the list of display of selected
children.
b) Any
person aggrieved by the decision
of the DAMC may file an
appeal against such decision
of the DAMC may file
an appeal against such
decision before the APSERMC.
c) Such
appeals should be filed
within three months
from the date of
order of the
DAMC and APSERMC
shall dispose of all
appeals within a
time period of
three months of filing.
d) The
procedure for hearing
all appeals shall
be in accordance with rule
9(4) of APSERMC Act 21 of
2019.
Note:-The parents/guardians are
requested to submit the application carefully
with full awareness of
notification. No Edit
/Modification provision for
the application once submitted.
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