Chetpet, Chennai Right to Education 2014 Results

What a year! Our organization, RTE Advocates, assisted 19 families, facilitated 70+ applications, and worked with 8 schools in the Chetpet area (only 5 extensively).

We got seats for 12 of them.

Of the 7 who did not get seats...

• 2 families dropped out of the process on account of finding schools elsewhere 
• 1 did not submit an income certificate 
• 2 declined RTE seats on offer. 
• 1 only applied to one institution
• 1 unfortunately did not get selected at the 4 schools to which she applied.

Of the 8 schools we approached, the breakdown of our experience is as follows:

• 2 schools claimed minority status (we are investigating one)
• 1 school claimed to have finished admissions in February (we will be approaching the CBSE board to determine the claim's legitimacy)
• 1 school offered 2 seats (but we believe did not fully comply with the Act)
• 1 school offered 6 seats (2 of whom had already accepted RTE seats elsewhere)
• 1 school offered 6 seats 
• 1 school did not offer any seats, which we are investigating
• 1 school is likely going to reject all of our candidates for being 1.2 km away from the institution (the law states within 1km). Because most of our candidates have been placed elsewhere, we are debating further action or if we should let it be.