The Madras High Court on Tuesday (June 10, 2025) directed the Union Ministry of Education to consider splitting the disbursal of funds to the Tamil Nadu government under its flagship Samagra Shiksha scheme, so that money needed to reimburse private schools under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act can be disbursed.
The RTE component amounts to about ₹200 crore, while the total amount pending to Tamil Nadu under the SSS amounts to ₹2,151.59 crore, amidst a row over the State’s refusal to implement the National Education Policy, 2020.
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The court also told the State government that non-receipt of funds from the Centre cannot be used as a “reason to wriggle out” of its own obligation to pay the private schools.
Concurrent responsibility
