With RTE admissions diverted to the government-run and aided schools, there is a huge increase in the number of schools participating in RTE admissions this year.
According to them, children from rural, hilly and tribal areas of the state are going to be most affected resulting in drop-outs and thus the government needs to review them.
So far in Maharashtra, students could apply to private unaided or self-financed schools within a radius of one to 3km under the Right to Education Act, 2009.
In an address during the first week of December of last year, Governor Ramesh Bais expressed his disapproval of the early start times for primary schools