Chandigarh, March 13 -- The high court has asked the Punjab government whether age relaxation can be granted to the schoolchildren who were seeking admission for the academic session 2025- 2026 but could not make the cut due to delay in implementation of the standard operating procedure.

The directions were issued by the bench of justice Kuldeep Tiwari while hearing a petition having 97 children, who could not get the admission under the RTE Act as the state government had neither issued guidelines nor put in place standard operating procedure (SOP) pursuant to a high court order on implementation of RTE Act in February 2025. The court has now directed the state's counsel to apprise the court in this regard by March 20.

As per counsel V...