The status of vacant seats will be displayed in the schools soon, the Directorate of Education said in a statement.

Seats of students placed under long absence during the current session and not traceable or admitted in another school (with documentary proof) will be considered vacant, the DoE said.

“Priority should be given to applicants who have applied for admission on a transfer basis from Sarvodaya Vidyalayas of DoE,” the circular said.

The DoE further said “the children residing preferably in the vicinity of one km of the school (if Sarvodaya Vidyalaya is not available in the vicinity, then residents within a radius of 3 km of the school) shall be eligible to apply..

“Admission will not be denied to any divyang child, destitute child, refugee/asylum seeker, homeless, migrant, orphan or child in need of care and protection in any government school due to non-availability of essential documents at the time of submission of documents in the school,” the DoE circular added.

Provisional admission for 30 days will be allowed based on an undertaking by the parents/guardians, it said.

“Cluster Resource Coordinators and school management committee members will help the students in making these documents available to them so that the provisional admission may be regularised within the stipulated time and the students may be able to take the advantage of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of scholarships in their bank accounts,” the circular said.

The DoE, in its circular, also informed that students admitted under the ‘Plan’ or ‘Non-Plan’ category during the current academic session will not be considered for transfer by Heads of Schools (HoSs).

It said that the HoSs will manually forward all such applications for transfer to the Zonal Grievance Redressal Committee.

The Committee has been constituted at the Zonal level to look into the issues pertaining to admission and transfer of students within the respective Zones of DoE for admissions.

It said that the deserving cases recommended for transfer will be forwarded manually by DDE (Zone) to DE(District) who will examine these cases afresh and forward online School Leaving Certificate (SLC) requests to the desired schools.

The link for sending online requests of these students will be made available at the level of DDE (District).