bhopal the state education department is soon going to dispel the ambiguity that looms over the leased convent schools whether they come under the ambit of the right to education rte act or not a decision in this regard is likely to be taken in a couple of days highly placed sources in the education department said carmel convent bhel st xavier st mary campion school st theresa st thomas all saints st johns and hema higher secondary among others are on leased land and hence it was not clear whether these schools would have to reserve 25 of their seats for the bpl children coming under the rte act notably most of these schools barring carmel convent bhel have also either completed their kg and class i admissions or are in the process hence parents are in a fix over whether their dreams of sending their children to such schools stand good district education officer deo c m upadhyay told toi recently at the meeting held at rajya shiksha kendra rsk we have brought this issue to the notice of its commissioner and have asked for clarifications a decision in this regard is likely to be taken in a couple of days he also said that since it is in lieu of a supreme court judgment any decision taken would be done keeping in mind the consequences of that verdict if the land is leased on grant or on concessional rates we need to ascertain in what proportion it was taken and what permissions need to be taken for the admissions he said on the issue of how the admissions would be affected as most of these schools as they are already through with the admission of the junior classes he said even if there is some delay in the procedure it is acceptable as the future of children depends on it whatever that is done will be under the ambit of the apex courts judgment last year after the sc ruling on exemption of unaided minority schools the catholic church of mp had issued a statement in july that there are no aided catholic schools in bhopal only the hindi section of one school is partially aided hence the schools do not come under the ambit of the right to education act rte