Supreme Court to deliver verdict on Thursday on poor students quota

Updated on: Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict on Thursday on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the right to education law that requires private schools to earmark 25 percent seats for poor students.

The judgment, reserved on Aug 3, 2011 after a prolonged hearing, would be pronounced by a bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S.P. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar.

There will be two judgments one by Chief Justice Kapadia and the other by Justice Radhakrishnan.

A batch of petitions by Society for Unaided Private Schools, Independent Schools Federation of India and others had contested the provision in the law under which they had to reserve 25 percent seats for economically weaker sections in their schools.

The schools contended that the reservation of 25 percent seats for the children from vulnerable sections of society violated their right to run educational institution without the state's interference.

The schools' contention that the reservation for poor students would drain their resources was contested by the government's promise to reimburse the money spent by them on these students.

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