Under section 12(1)(c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, an unaided school must admit, in class I, children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups…

Section 12(1)(c) requires such a school to admit children from weaker sections and disadvantaged groups in the neighbourhood “to the extent of at least twenty-five per cent. of the strength of that class” and to provide them free and compulsory elementary education until it is complete. Twenty, fifteen and thirty-three per cent are not the figures the Act prescribes.