nagpur after initial technical hiccups the online registrations for schools under right to education act got underway on monday as toi had reported earlier the first phase for admission under 25 free quota under rte requires schools to register online this will continue for a week in which about 400 schools from nagpur will enter their data in the governments database in the morning hours there were reportedly some issues faced by schools for logging into the site but that got resolved by noon schools are required to enter data such as total intake capacity at their entry level exact address with pincode etc as per rte rules the state is allowing admission only to those students who reside within 3 km of the target school distance of schools from residence of applicant will be calculated using google maps for this however students and parents do not have to bother as the rte admission software will do the calculations automatically applicant parent simply has to enter their pin code and the software will display schools in the vicinity in which the admission applications can be submitted parents will have to scan documents for address proof and attach it along with their application the school however will have the final say and can refuse admission if the documents are not in order address proof has always been a contentious issue and now the state has decided that only governmentissued documents will be accepted this immediately knocks out the rentagreement document which many parents were known to submit to schools just to prove that they live within a 3 km catchment area the web site address is wwwrte25admissionmaharashtragovin and schools need to complete all data entry by february 21 an official said unless all schools have entered data the system wont work hence it is imperative to register online and have authentic data available during admission process after february 21 parents can start applying online for admissions and choose from various school options available