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Criterion for giving minority tag to educational groups tweaked
What has happened?
Making it easier for educational institutions to get the minority tag, the Department of Primary and Secondary Education has tweaked the eligibility criterion to set up minority education institutions.
New Rules
The Karnataka Educational Institutions (Recognition of minority educational institutions terms and conditions) draft rules now state that the institution can have 25% students belonging to any number of religious or linguistic minority communities.
Older Rules
- The older rules required a school to have 25% of the total number of students in an academic year belonging to a specific religious or linguistic minority community
Management Rules unchanged
The other criterion of two-thirds of the management members having to be of a particular minority community remains unchanged
Opposition to the move
The new rules would help a large number of schools “escape” from reserving 25% of their seats for students from weaker and disadvantaged backgrounds under the RTE Act
Justification for the move
Population of linguistic minority communities was less and the move would benefit institutions run by them.
