mumbai while several schools are getting ready to admit students from the underprivileged section in the 25 quota under the right to free and compulsory education rte act not many have received such admission requests from parents many believe that the state government has failed to create awareness among people to avail of this facility sushma dhumal director of vishwajyot high school in kharghar said the move to admit students from the economically weaker section is indeed a good one however we have not been approached by any students the state government is yet to give us clear instructions on how to go about with the admissions dhumal added that if students approach the school they will be given admissions in the reserved quota rashmi pokale principal of iess modern english school also claimed that she has not received any admission requests i might get a clear picture once the school reopens on monday said pokale one of the principals from a school in the western suburbs mentioned that the state government had failed to create awareness among the underprivileged we are not even sure if we are to go and look out for students from the underprivileged section if we are supposed to do so there are no such guidelines earlier we believed that the department will give us a list of students from our neighbourhood the principal said another principal claimed that many international schools are not affected by the implementation of the policy as they are not expecting any student to seek admission in their schools the rule says that schools have to provide all facilities that are offered to students in the school to students from the weaker section these students will be unable to afford expenses like stationery textbooks uniforms etc which is not provided by the school said a principal sanjay deshmukh project director of sarva shikshan abhiyaan said we have released advertisements in several local newspapers to reach out to people asking them to seek admissions for their children in neighbourhood schools even schools were notified to release advertisements declaring the numbers of vacant seats in their schools it is the schools responsibility to ensure that children in their areas are admitted deshmukh added that schools should take some initiatives