India, April 23 -- Parents across the state are facing growing difficulty in securing admission for their children under the Right To Education (RTE) quota, as minor errors and document mismatches have led to rejections despite the applications being selected in the lottery. The situation has left many families anxious, and only 47,896 of the 1,05,811 allotted students have confirmed their admissions so far. Activists said that the slow pace of admissions had become a major concern.

Many parents told HT that even minor mistakes in documents-such as incomplete names, mismatch in income certificates, and differences between application details and submitted documents-were leading to rejection at verification centres. In Govandi, for instan...