nagpur maharashtra is staring a big school education crisis for the 201819 academic session as almost 3000 private unaided schools have decided to boycott the admission process under right to education act rte because of pending payments for the first time ever various school associations have come together and demanded that they be reimbursed all pending dues against the free admissions given for rtes 25 quota else no admissions will be given a final meeting of all associations is slotted for january 27 at mumbaisc kedia president of mumbaibased united schools forum usf said around 50000 student admissions will be affected because of noncooperation from state government under rte both schools and state are supposed to discharge their duties legally our job is to provide free admissions while the state has to reimburse us for it but for past many years schools are being compelled to do their part while the state government is not fulfilling its side of the agreementstatelevel group independent english schools association iesa held a meeting in nagpur on saturday to coordinate with schools in the region regarding boycott rajendra singh the punebased president of iesa said the pending payment total has touched rs 800 crore and barely anything has come out of it iesas vicepresident jagruti dharmadhikari spoke with states principal secretary of school education nand kumar on saturday afternoon but the talks did not yield any result against the pending rs800 crore but they are offering just rs70 crore that is unacceptable the resolve among schools to take the government headon for pending dues is strong says singh now it is a do or die situation we have all decided to boycott the admission process and if the education department decides to take action against us so be it we are prepared to for all consequencessingh said after our final meeting on january 27 in mumbai we will be addressing a press conference to make our concerns public