RTE UP Admission 2025: Schools appear closed online, parents’ tension increased – 19000 seats reduced?

RTE admission process in Uttar Pradesh has started from 1st December 2024. The last date to fill UP RTE admission form is 19 December 2024. After the completion of the registration process, verification and inclusion of names in the list will be done. But parents say that when they are applying for RTE admission, many schools are seen closed. In such a situation, they are not able to apply for admission of their children. Not just one or two, but the entire website rte25.upsdc.gov.in But there are more than a hundred schools. Ghaziabad Parents Association has also raised its voice regarding this. The union members are going to meet the Basic Education Officer regarding this matter this week. Vivek Tyagi from Ghaziabad Parents Association said that due to closure of schools, parents are not able to participate in the RTE admission process in the schools of their area or ward. They feel that this year also the child will remain without admission. When a complaint was made, it was said that there was a technical issue.

What is UP Education Department saying?

On the other hand, UP Basic Education Officer and RTE Admission OP Yadav, who is watching, says that ‘For some reason, the process has been stopped in all the schools where this option is visible. Many schools in this are minority, some start from class ninth and many schools do not have primary section. The reason was taken from all these schools. Only after that they were closed.

RTE UP: 19000 seats reduced?

The question of the parents who complained to the Education Department is that ‘the seats which were given to these schools, will these seats now be given to other schools. Will other schools be included in their place? If this does not happen, then the around 19 thousand seats will be reduced.

Parents demand that ‘at the same time, the number of 1192 schools being mentioned in Ghaziabad district has also been reduced. In such a situation, the question to the education department is that this matter should be made clear to the parents regarding seats. So that they can leave these schools and get their children admitted in other schools. Apart from this, the seats given to these schools should also be increased in other schools.