Starting the process to take admissions for all classes for the year 2020-21

Memo Rc.No.155/A&I/2020 Dated:#ApprovedDate# 

1.The attention of all the Regional Directors of School Education and District
Educational Officers in the State is invited to the reference 1st cited wherein orders
were issued to declare “ALL PASS” for all the Students upto Class IX as a
precautionary measure to counter the spread of Noval Corona Virus(COVID-19) in
the State of Andhra Pradesh and in the reference 2nd cited all Head Masters of
Primary/UP/High Schools under all Government Management Schools were
requested to prepare promotion lists of the students accordingly. 

2. Further, it is informed that, in the ref 3rd cited, the Department of School
Education & Literacy, MHRD, GoI, New Delhi has issued certain guidelines for
providing admission to any child who has returned back to the village without asking
for any other documents, expect some identity proof. They should not ask for transfer
certificates or proof of class attended earlier. The information provided by the child’s
parents may be assumed to be correct and taken as such for giving admission to the
child in the relevant class in his/her neighborhood government/government-aided
school. 

3. In view of the above, all the Regional Directors of School Education and
District Educational Officers in the State are requested to issue necessary
instructions to all Head Masters of Primary/UP/High Schools under all government
management Schools on the following: 

a. Start the process of admissions for all classes for the academic year 2020-21
by taking all precautionary measures to counter the spread of Noval Corona
Virus(COVID-19) immediately. 

b. For this purpose, no child should be called to the school. 

c. The Headmaster and the staff shall take the following steps for the admission
of children in the schools: 

1. i. All the children that have studied from Class I to IV in the primary
   schools, Class I to VI in the UP Schools and Class VI to IX in the high
   schools during 2019-20 and declared pass have to be promoted to the
   next higher class and all those names should be entered in the
   admission register automatically. 
2. ii. All the children and that have passed Class V, Class VII and their
   parents have to be contacted personally and their option of school for
   admission into next higher class to be ascertained. The same shall be
   informed to the headmaster concerned of the school in writing with an
   advice to contact the parents and admit the child in that school. In case
   of primary schools, the MEO shall monitor this aspect and in case of
   high schools, the DyEO concerned shall monitor. At no cost, a child
   should be admitted in any school without consulting the parents. Hence,
   a proof of their option to be obtained in writing. 
3. iii.Once the parental/child choice is received, the headmaster of the
   school from which the child is going out shall handover the Record
   Sheet/TC of the child to the headmaster of the school where the child is
   seeking admission along with a copy of the parental choice. 
4. iv.In case of Residential Schools, Model Schools and Kasturba Balika
   Vidyalayas where the admission process is taken up through online, the
   records pertaining to the children to be hande dover to the concerned
   Principal under proper acknowledgement. 
5. v. The details of the admissions be recorded in the child info from time to
   time. 

d. Further, the headmasters and staff shall identify the Out of School Children to
get admissions for the academic year 2020-21. 

e. Provide admission to any Child of the Migrant Labours who have returned
back to the village without asking for any other documents, expect some
identity proof. They should not ask for transfer certificates or proof of class
attended earlier. The information provided by the child’s parents may be
assumed to be correct and taken as such for giving admission to the child in
the relevant class in his/her neighborhood government/government-aided
school